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[No. 218. 



and Stepney, by B. H. Cowper, is unquestionably one 

 of the most carefully compiled, and judiciously ar- 

 ranged, little topographical works, which we have 

 ever been called upon to notice. The intelligent M.P. 

 who is recorded to have asked a witness before a select 

 committee for the precise locality of the Isle of Dogs, 

 and to have been satisfied with the answer " Between 

 London Bridge and Gravesend," may, if inclined to 

 pursue his inquiries, find its history told most fully and 

 most agreeably in the little volume now before us. 



In our Number for the 21st of May last, we called 

 attention to, and spoke in terms of fitting approbation 

 of, the First Part of The English Bible ; containing the 

 Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised 

 •version ; newly divided into paragraphs, with concise 

 Introductions to the several Books, and with Maps and 

 Notes illustrative of the Chronology, History, and 

 Geography of the Holy Scriptures ; containing also 

 the most remarkable variations of the Ancient Versions, 

 and the chief results of Modern Criticism. Part 11., 

 comprising Exodus and Leviticus, is now before us, 

 and exhibits the same merits as its predecessor. 



Mr. Miller, of Chandos Street, who during the past 

 year added to the value of his Monthly Catalogues by 

 the addition to each of them of several pages of literary 

 and bibliographical miscellanies, has just collected 

 these into a little volume, under the title of Fly Leaves, 

 or Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical, and 

 3Iiscellaneous, which may find a fitting place beside 

 Davis's Olio, and other works of that class. 



We regret to learn, as we do from the Literary 

 Gazette of Saturday last, that the Trustees of the 

 British Museum, in defiance of the earnest recommend- 

 ation of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Archseo- 

 logical Institute, and with a total disregard of the 

 feelings and opinions of those best qualified to advise 

 them upon the subject, have declined to purchase the 

 Faussett Collection of Early Antiquities, and conse- 

 quently will lose the Fairford Collection offered to 

 them as a free gift by Mr. Wylie : so that the en- 

 lightened foreigner, who visits this great national 

 establishment, and admiring its noble collections of 

 Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Assyrian antiquities, 

 asks, " but where are your own national antiquities ? " 

 must still be answered, " We have not got one !" They 

 certainly do manage these things better in France and 

 Denmark. 



Our readers, we have no doubt, shared the regret 

 ■with which we read the advertisement in our columns 

 last week from the Rev. Dr. Hincks, who, from the 

 ■want of encouragement, and in the face of peculiarly 

 adverse circumstances, is compelled to withdraw from 

 the field of Assyrian discovery ; and who is advertising 

 for some competent person who will work out what he 

 has in progress. Although Assyrian literature may 

 at present be discouraged by the Church and neglected 

 by the Universities, there can be little doubt that it 

 must ere long assume a very different position : and 

 ■we therefore trust that some ineans may yet be taken 

 to prevent Dr. Hincks' withdrawal from a field of 

 study in which he has been so successful. 



As we have deviated from our usual course in 

 noticing subjects advertised in our pages, we take the 

 opportunity of calling the attention of our antiquarian 



friends to the advertisement from the Rev. G. Cumming 

 on the subject of the casts now making from the Runic 

 Monuments in the Isle of Man, 



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No. 219 On Saturday, January 7, 1854, the opening Number 



of our New 'Volume wiil contain numerous interesting papers 

 by many of our most distinguished Contributors. 



We are compelled to postpone until next weelc our usual 

 Notices to Correspondents. 



Index to Volume the Eighth. — This is in a very forward 

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 the 21 si of January. 



Errata. — Vol. Tiii., p. 4'14. col. 2. 1.45., for "nearly" read 

 "near;" p. 445. col. 1. 1.24., for "Severn" read " Levern," 

 and (in three places) for " Waywell " read " Maxwell ; " p. 562. 

 col. 1. 1. 3., for "Leaman " read " Seaman ;" p. .568. 1. 5. from 

 the bottom, for " sine angulus " read " sine angulis ; " p. 594. 

 col. 2. 1. 28., after " Richard " insert " son of," and 1. 30., alter 

 " he" insert " (the Father)." 



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