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gdo ;" and a good article oil "Public Speaking," a subject 

 which seems at length to be receiving the attention it 

 deserves. Therd is a clever sketch of the " Progress of 

 English Agriculture," and a painful one of" The Siege of 

 Lucknow; " while the political character of the Review ia 

 fully sustained in the closing paper on " i*rance and the 

 late Ministry." 



If there be left in England any " homfe-keeping youths," 

 they owe much to Mr. Robert Bell, who has just put 

 forth a well-filled Volume of Wayside Pictures through 

 France, Belgium, and Up the Rhine, in which they may 

 find such graphic and gossiping descriptions of every- 

 thing that is interesting in the countries traversed by 

 Mr. Bell, as may compensate for their stay-at-home des- 

 tiny. Those who have had the better fortune to follow 

 Mr. Bell's footsteps, will rejoice in his book aS a pleasant 

 memorial of their own journeyings. 



Coleridge once called himself a man of infinite title- 

 pages. Mr. Timbs is a man of "happy title-pages." We 

 know no writer of the present day so lucky in the choice 

 of his subjects, or who works his subjects with more suc- 

 cess. His new volume. School Days of Eminent Men, is 

 a fresh instance of this. The idea is a happy one, and its 

 execution equally so. It is a book to interest all boys ; 

 but more especially those of Westminster, Eton, Harrow, 

 Rugby, and Winchester : for of these, as of many other 

 schools of high repute, the accounts are full and inter- 

 esting. 



Mr. Chappell's amusing and instructive work on the 

 Popular Music of the Olden Time increases in interest as 

 it approaches its cohclusion. The twelfth Part, which has 

 just been issued, and gives us the histor}', literary and 

 musical, of some twenty-seven of our most favourite airs, 

 is certainly well calculated to add to Mr. Chappell's repu- 

 tation as a most zealous, painstaking, and intelligent 

 antiquary ; and few will rise from listening to the airs 

 here preserved, or from reading the curious notices of 

 them which Mr. Chappell has here recorded, without a 

 feeling of satisfaction. His history of the old " Waits " 

 is peculiarly interesting ; and every Wykehamist will be 

 delighted with his account of " Dulce Uomum," and the 

 manner' in which he has traced the authorship of the 

 words to " Francis Turner," the well-known Bishop of 

 Ely, and of the music to John Reading, the organist of 

 the College, and the composer of the three Latin Graces 

 which are still sung at the Annual College Elections. 



On last Monday and Tuesday Messrs. Sotheby and 

 Wilkinson sold a collection of works illustrative of poet- 

 ical and dramatic history, particularly remarkable for the 

 early editions of the separate pieces of our standard 

 Poets. The Catalogue informs us that it is the property 

 of " A well-known Collector," and a cursory glance at 

 its contents will convince any one of his unwearied dili- 

 gence and commendable taste in collecting these literary 

 rarities. But, alas ! instead of finding this Temple of 

 THE Muses filled with groups of philologists and critics 

 gallantly bearing off at liigh prices those rare and curious 

 nuggets, we regret to find the majority of them sold for a 

 trifle more than the price of waste paper. The most re- 

 markable exceptions were the following : — Ed. Spencer's 

 Colin Clout's Come Home again, first edition, 4to. 1595, 

 3/. 5s. — A Complete and very rare Series of the Cata- 

 logues of the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Academy 

 from 1769 to 1854, 8/. — Thomas Gray's Poems, with 

 designs by Bentley, being Horace Walpole's reserved 

 copy, with the names of the engravers in MS., also in- 

 teresting notes in his autograph, fol. 1753. 3/. 7s. 



Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. The Fourth Boke of 

 Virgin, intreating of the love betwene Aeneas and Dido, 

 translated into a strange metre by Plenry, late Earle of 

 Surrey, ivorthy to be embraced. Black-letter, excessively 



rare, and probably unique, John Day, for William 

 Owen, dwellyng in Paternoster Rowe, at the sygne of the 

 Cocke, without date. First edition, unseen by all our old 

 bibliographical and poetical antiquaries ; by Ames it is 

 not mentioned ; Herbert, Dibdin, and Lowndes record its 

 title, the latter from the former's notice ; Dibdin in his 

 Typog. Antiquities, lamenting that Herbert had ilot 

 given a further account of it, and doubting if it was 

 printed b}' John Day. 20?. 



Horae Beatse Mariaj Virginis, cum Kalendario. Manu- 

 script of the 16th century on vellum, the text written in 

 double columns, very numerous initial letters enclosing 

 small miniatures, executed with considerable skill; the 

 capitals (of which there are many hundred) in colours, 

 heightened with burnished gold ; the Kalendar decorated 

 at the foot of each page with small circular miniatures, 

 exhibiting the usual occupations of the Months and the 

 twelve signs of the Zodiac, some nearly obliterated; 

 figures of the Evangelists on the margins, &c. From the 

 costume of the various whole-length figures portraj'ed 

 in this volume it may be pronounced as of English exe- 

 cution. It is unfortunately' imperfect. 6?. 8s. 6d. 



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