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author's views of the i>oliticaI principles of the Quakers 

 (and we suspect many of the Qualcers themselves will 

 be found among that number), will admit that in treat- 

 ing him not as a mere Quaker, as preceding biographers 

 had been too much disposed to do, but as " a great 

 English historical character — the champion of the 

 Jury Laws — the joint leader, with Algernon Sidney, 

 of the Commonwealth men — the royal councillor of 

 1C84-8 — the courageous defender of Free Thought — 

 tlie founder of Pennsylvania" — Mr. Dixon has suc- 

 ceeded in the task which he had proposed to himself, 

 namely, that of transforming William Penn " from a 

 myth into a man." His vindication of this great man 

 from what he designates " The Macaulay Charges" 

 would not, however, have lost one iota of its efficiency, 

 bad it been couched in tomewhat more measured 

 terms. 



Mr. Murray announces The Grenville Papers ; being 

 the Private Correspondence of Richard Grenville Earl 

 Temple, his Brother George Grenville, their Friends and 

 Contemporaries, as in the press. It will contain some 

 letters from Junius, and Mr. Grenville's Diary, parti- 

 cularly during his premiership, from 1763 to 1765. 

 The fifth and sixth volumes of Lord Mahon's History 

 of England from tlie Peace of Utrecht are also at press. 



Lady Theresa Lewis is nearly ready with a work 

 which cannot but be of great interest. It is entitled 

 Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chan- 

 cellor Clarendon, illustrative of Portraits in his Gallery ; 

 with an Account of the Origin of the Collection ; and a 

 descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures. It will form two 

 volumes, and be accompanied by illu'itrative portraits. 



Mr, Colburn announces a new library edition of 

 Miss Strickland's Lives of ihe Queens of England. 

 Although revised and considerably augmented by new 

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 himself, but must send to his pages a great number of 

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 — The Iliad of Homer, literally translated, with explana- 

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 of Bohn's Classical Library; and the Editor expresses 

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