JAN. 12. 1850.] 
drawings in the possession of William Twopeny, 
Esq., while the literary illustrations will be derived 
entirely from original sources, and from the results 
of careful observation and inquiry. 
It is said to have been a rule with Charles Fox 
to have every work bound in one volume if pos- 
sible, although published in two or three. The 
public have long felt the convenience of such an 
arrangement ; and the great booksellers have very 
wisely gratified their wishes in that respect. The 
handsome “ monotome” edition of The Doctor is 
doubtless well known to our readers. The success 
of that experiment has, we presume, induced 
Messrs. Longman to announce the Complete Works 
of the Rev. Sydney Smith, and Mr.Macaulay's Criti- 
cal Essays, in the same cheap and convenient form. 
We believe, too, that another (the sixth) edition 
of that gentleman’s History of England from the 
Accession of James IT., is on the eve of publication. 
Those of our readers who take an interest in 
that widely spread and popular subject, The Dance 
of Death, will remember that one of the most 
exquisite works of art in which expression is given 
to the idea on which this pictorial morality is 
founded, is the Alphabet Dance of Death — so 
delicately engraved on wood, (it is sometimes said 
by Holbein, who designed it,) but really by H. 
Lutzelburger, that the late Mr. Douce did not 
believe it could ever be copied so as to afford any 
adequate impression of the beauty of the original. 
A German artist, Heinrich Loedel, has, however, 
disproved the accuracy of this opinion; and the 
amateur may now, for a few shillings, put him- 
self in possession of most admirable copies of a 
work which is a masterpiece of design, and a gem 
in point of execution, and of which the original is 
of the extremest rarity. There are two editions 
of this Alphabet ; one published at Gottingen, with 
an accompanying dissertation by Dr. Adolf Ellis- 
sen ; and the other at Cologne, with corresponding 
borders by Georg Osterwald. 
The revised and much enlarged edition of Dr. 
Lingard’s History of England, handsomely printed 
in ten large octavo volumes is, we understand, 
nearly ready for publication. 
Mr. M. A. Lower, whose Curiosities of Heraldry 
and English Surnames are no doubt well known 
to many of our readers, is preparing for publication 
a Translation, froma MS. in the British Museum, of 
The Chronicle of Battel Abbey from the Vow of its 
Foundation by William the Conqueror, to the Year 
1176, originally compiled in Latin, by a Monk of 
the Establishment. 
Mr. Thorpe, 13. Henrietta Street, has just 
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excessively rare Books, particularly rich in Early 
Poetry, Mysteries, Pageants, and Plays, and 
Romances of Chivalry.” This Catalogue is also 
extremely rich in Madrigals set to Music, by 
eminent Composers of Queen Elizabeth's reign — 
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