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NqTi;S ANO QUTOIES. 



C2»'» S. y. 118., April 8. '58. 



nals, and some Account of the Brothers of the Common Life. 

 The volume is far more extensive than the short gene- 

 ral history of the Jansenists published by Dr. Tregelles, 

 and abounds with information as to the best sources from 

 which those who desire to know yet more about the Jan- 

 senists may gain that knowledge. 



The Most Holy Book of Psalms literally rendered into 

 English Verse, according to the Prayer Book Version, by 

 Edgar Alfred Bowring, will be received by many with 

 great satisfaction, not only for the care and ability with 

 which the original languag:e has been preserved, but for 

 the reverential spirit in which the work has been under- 

 taken and completed. 



Mr. Sidney Gibson, whose communications to " N. & 

 Q." must have made his name familiar to most of our 

 readers, has just collected the Essays and Reviews con- 

 tributed by him to various journals, and, with the addi- 

 tion of some lectures and papers now first published, 

 formed a pleasant volume of Leciures and Essays on vari- 

 ous Subjects, Historical, Topographical, and Artistic. It 

 contains four-and -twenty different articles on every pos- 

 sible variety of subject, from the " Validity of Oaths" to 

 the " Curiosities of the number Seven," all more or less 

 gossiping and amusing. 



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S. R. Dougal Graham's Impartial History of the Rebellion of 1715-6, 

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SioMA. M. Franklin's Sempronius is not a dramatic poem. The 

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