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[No. 69. 



venturecl so far from the banks of the Nile as to be 

 seen in the Desert. P. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



The members of the Percy Society have just received 

 the third and concluding volume of T/ie Canterbury 

 Tales of Genffrej/ C/iaucer, a vcw Text, with Illit.<trntive 

 Notes, edited hi/ Thomas Ifriijlit, Exg. It is urged as 

 an objection to Tyrwhitt's excellent edition of the Can- 

 terhury Tales, tliat one does not know his authority for 

 any particular reading, inasmuch as he has given what 

 he considered the best among the different MS.S. ho 

 consulted. Mr. AVright has gone on an entirely differ- 

 ent principle. Considering the Harleian BIS. (No. 

 7.'}34. ) as both " the oldest and best manuscript he has 

 yet met with," he has " reproduced it with literal 

 accuracy," and for the adoption of this course Mr. 

 Wright may plead the good example of German 

 scholars when editing the Nibdutir/en I.ied. That 

 the members of the Society approve the principle of 

 giving complete editions of works like the present, has 

 been shown by the anxiety with which they have koked 

 for the completion of Mr. Wright's labours; and we 

 doubt not that, if the Council follow up this edition of 

 the Canterbury Tales with some other of the collected 

 works which they have announced — such as those of 

 Hocclevc, Taylor the Water Poet, &c. — they will 

 readily fdl up any vacancies which may now exist in 

 their list of members. 



Mr. Parker has just issued another handsome, and 

 handsomely illustrated volume to gladden tlie hearts of 

 all ecclesiologists and architectural antiquaries. We 

 allude to JMr. Freeman's Essay on the Origin and 

 Development of Window Tracery in Enyland, which 

 consists of an improved and extended form of several 

 papers on the subject of Tracery read before the 

 Oxford Architectural Society at intervals during the 

 years 1846 and 18 48. To those of our readers who 

 know what are Mr. Freeman's abilities for the task he 

 has undertaken, the present announcement will be a 

 sufficient inducement to make them turn to the volume 

 itself; while these who have not yet paid any atten- 

 tion to this Interesting chapter in the history of .'Archi- 

 tectural progre'is, will find no better introduction to 

 the study of it than Mr. Freeman's able volume with 

 its four hundred illustrations. 



Mr. Foss has, we hear, gone to press with two ad- 

 ditional volumes of his Judges of England, which will 

 carry his subject down to the end of the reign of 

 Richard III. 



The Alhencciim of Saturday last announces that the 

 remaining Stowe MS.S., including the unpublished 

 Diaries and Correspondence of George Grenville, have 

 been bought by Mr. Murray, of Albemarle Street, 

 from the Trustees of the Duke of Buckingham. The 

 correspondence will form about four volumes, and will 

 be ready to appear among our next winter's novelties. 

 The Grenville Diary reveals, it is said, the secret 

 movements of Lord Bute's administration — the private 

 histories of Wilkes and Lord Chatham — and the 

 features of the early madness of George III. ; while 



the Correspondence exhibits Wilkes, we are told, in a 

 new liglit . — and reveals (what the Stowe Papers were 

 expected to reveal) something of moment a Ix)ut Junius; 

 So that we may at length look for the solution of this 

 important o.iiery. 



Messrs. Puttick and Simpson (191. Piccadilly) will 

 sell, on Monday and Tuesday next, a coUeclion of 

 Choice Books, mostly in beautiful condition. Among 

 the more curious lots are, an unpublished work of 

 Archbishop Land, on Church Government, said to 

 have been presented to Charles I. for the instruc- 

 tion of Prince Henry ; and an unique Series of 

 Illustrations for Scotland, consisting of several thousand 

 engravings, and many interesting drawings and auto- 

 graphs. 



We have received the following Catalogues ; — 

 Bernard Qaaritch's(I6. Castle Street, Leicester Square) 

 Catalogue (No. 24.) of Books in European and Ori- 

 ental Languages and Dialects, Fine Arts, Antiquities, 

 &c. ; Waller and Son's (]88. Fleet Street) Catalogue of 

 Autograph Letters and Manuscri|its, English and 

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