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-bined with the analytical tables of contents, give to the 

 entire series all the usefulness of a compendious ency- 

 clopaedia of natural philosophy and astronomy. 



JFilltch's Income Tax Tables, Fourth Edition, 1853— 

 1860, price One Florin, show at one view the amount 

 of duty at the various rates fixed by the late act, and 

 are accompanied by a variety of statistical information, 

 tending to show that the wealth of the nation has in- 

 creased in as great, if not a greater, ratio, than the 

 population. The price at which the work is issued 

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 entitled Decimal Coinage Tables for simplifying and fa- 

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The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy 

 hy Ordericus Vitalis, translated with Notes, and the In- 

 troduction of Guizot, by Thomas Forrester, M.A. 

 Vol. I., is a new volume of the interesting Series of 

 Translations of the early Church Historians of England 

 publishing by Mr. Bohn, to which we propose calling 

 the especial attention of our readers at some future 

 period. The importance which our French neigh- 

 bours attach to the writings of Ordericus Vitalis is 

 shown by the fact that the French Historical Society, 

 after publishing a translation, are now issuing an edi- 

 tion of the original text, from a laborious collation 

 of the best MSS., under the editorship of M. Auguste 

 le Prevost, The present translation is based upon 

 that edition. 



We have on several occasions called the attention of 

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 possession of the Society of Antiquaries, and to the 

 endeavours making by that learned body to secure as 

 complete a series as possible of these valuable but 

 hitherto little used materials for English History. 

 Some contributions towards this object have, we be- 

 lieve, been the results of our notices ; and we have 

 now to state, that at the opening meeting on Thursday 

 the 17th, it was announced that William Salt, Esq., 

 F.S. A., had presented to the library two volumes of 

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 Raisonnee of the whole collection is in preparation by 

 Robert Lemon, Esq., of the State Paper Office, a gentle- 

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ficial influence which the Society of Antiquaries is 

 hereafter destined to exercise on the historical litera- 

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