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secure the success which we wish it. The Honorary 

 Secretary and Treasurer is George Bisli Webb, Esq., of 

 46. Addison Road North, Notting Hill ; from whom 

 gentlemen desirous of enrolling themselves as Members 

 may obtain copies of the Prospectus, Rules, &c. of the 

 Society. 



The mention of one county Society seems to call 

 attention to another, namely, the Somersetshire Archceo- 

 logical and Natural History Society, the volume of whose 

 Proceedings for 1 852 is now before us, and affords satis- 

 factory proof that the zeal and energy of its members, 

 of which it numbers nearly five hundred, are by no 

 means diminished. The papers and the illustrations of 

 the volume are highly creditable to all concerned. 



The want of a collection of the early antiquities of 

 this country has long been the greatest reproach which 

 foreigners have been able to make against the British 

 Museum. An opportunity of removing this has lately 

 presented itself by an offer to the trustees of the well- 

 known and probably unique collection. The Faussett 

 Museum. Strange to say, that offer was declined : but, 

 as a communication from the Society of Antiquaries 

 strongly urging the propriety of a reconsideration of 

 this decision — so that an opportunity which may never 

 recur may not be lost — has been addressed to the 

 trustees, we still hope that the Faussett Museum will 

 yet fill the empty cases at Great Russell Street, and 

 form, as it is well calculated to do, the nucleus of a 

 national collection of our own national antiquities. We 

 understand Mr. Wylie has most liberally offered to 

 present his valuable Fairford Collections to the Mu- 

 seum, if the Faussett Collection is secured for it. 



Books Received. — The Life and Works of William 

 Cowper, by Robert Southey, Vol. I. This, the first 

 volume of a new edition, which will be comprised in 

 eight instead of fifteen volumes — cost twenty-eight 

 instead of seventy-five shillings, and yet contain ad- 

 ditional plates and matter, — is the new issue of Bohn's 

 Standard Library. — The Laws of Artistic Copyright 

 and their Defects, by D. R. Blaine, Esq. A little vo- 

 lume well calculated to instruct artists, sculptors, en- 

 gravers, printsellers, &c., so that they may clearly un- 

 derstand their rights, their remedies for the infringe- 

 ment of those rights, and the proper mode of trans- 

 ferring their property. — The Attic Philosopher in Paris, 

 being the Journal of a Happy Man, forms No. LI. of 

 Longman's Traveller's Library, and is a fit companion to 

 the Confessions of a Working Man, by the same author, 

 Emile Souvestre, published in the same series a few 

 months since. — Apuleius : Metamorphoses, or Golden 

 Asa, and other Works. A new translation, to which are 

 added a metrical version of Cupid and Psyche, and 

 Mrs. Tighe's Psyche, is the new volume of Bohn's 

 Classical Library. — Handbook to the Library of the 

 British Museum, §-c., by Richard Sims. After the 

 notice of this useful little volume taken by Mr. 

 Bolton CoaNEY in our last Number, we may content 

 ourselves with expressing our hope that the trustees, 

 whose desire it must be to facilitate in every way the 

 use of the Museum library, will avail themselves of the 

 earliest opportiniity of marking their approval of this 

 able attempt on the part of one of their officers — a 

 junior though he be — to promote so important an 

 object. 



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