Nov. 8. 1851.] 



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visible manner, under certain penalties, and pre- 

 vented paupers who neglected to wear it from 

 being relieved. This provision of the statute was 

 repealed by the 50 Geo. III. c. 52. ; and although 

 by the 55 Geo. III. c. 137. s. 2. parish officers 

 might cause goods, &c. to be branded with the 

 word " Workhouse," and such other mark or stamp 

 as they tliought proper, to identify the parish, it 

 was nevertheless provided, with the view of pre- i 

 venting a revival of the former mark of degrada- \ 

 tion, that such mark or stamp should not at any 

 time be placed on any articles of wearing apparel 

 80 as to be publicly visible on the exterior of the 

 same, Fkanciscus. 



dHtiSrcIIaurauS. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



Well roay Mr. Layard plead tlie interest felt in the 

 discoveries on tlie site of Niiic-veh as a reason for the 

 publication in a cheap and popular form of his Nineveh 

 and its Remains: and we know no work better calcu- 

 lated to give value to Mr. Murray's Reading for the 

 Rail than A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh. 

 By Austen Henry Layard, Esq., D. C. L. Abridged by 

 him from his larger Worn. The value of Mr. Layard's 

 first and larger publication has been so generally re- 

 cognised, that in calling attention to the present work, 

 with its numerous and spirited woodcuts, we feel bound 

 to confine ourselves to pointing out the plan pursued 

 by the author in his abridgment ; namely, that of 

 omitting the second part of the original work, and 

 introducing the principal Biblical and historical Illus- 

 trations into the narrative, which has thereby been ren- 

 dered more useful and complete. " As recent disco- 

 veries," observes Mr. Layard, " and the contents of the 

 inscriptions, so far as they have been satisfactorily de- 

 cypliered, have confirmed nearly all the opinions ex- 

 pressed in the original work, no changes on any material 

 points have been introduced into this abridgment. I 

 am still inclined to believe tbat all the ruins explored 

 represent the site of ancient Nineveh ; and whilst still 

 assigning the later monuments to the kings mentioned 

 in Scripture, Slialmanczer, Sennacherib, and Essar- 

 hadou, I am convinced that a considerable period 

 elapsed between their fauiulation and the erection of 

 the older jjalaces of Nlmroud." 



After tlie pictures wliich our facetious contemporary 

 Punch has furnished of the troubles winch an " unpro- 

 tected female " encounters, who ventures beyond the 

 quiet circle of her domestic duties, one is predisposed to 

 regard as a heroine a lady who ventures unattended on 

 a voyage round the world. Madame Ida I'fciH'er has 

 done this ; and her narrative of her adventures having 

 excited great attention both in (jcrmany and this 

 country, Messrs. Longman have shown themselves 

 excellent caterers for the reading public, by printing as 

 the new parts of their Traveller's Lihrari/, a, selected 

 translation of them by .Mrs. Percy Siiniett, under the 

 title of // I.aili/'s I'oyaijc round the World. 'I'he work 

 will be read with great pleasure and interest; and 

 while we wonder at the writer's extraordinary passion 



for travelling, we feel that she has produced such an 

 amusing and instructive volume that we are glad that 

 she had the opportunity of indulging it. Mrs. Sinnett 

 well characterises the book on which she has employed 

 her talents as a translator when she says, " Its chief 

 attraction will most likely be found in the personal 

 narrative and in the singular character of the authoress ; 

 who though apparently far removed by circumstances 

 from the romantic or adventurous, yet passes through 

 the most surprising scenes, and encounters the most 

 imminent perils witli a calm and unconscious heroism 

 that can hardly fail to command admiration." 



The Gentleman s Magazine announces that the King 

 of Denmark has conferred the Order of Dannebrog on 

 M. Worsaae, the author of the Primeval Antiquities of 

 Denmark, and other important works. This will be 

 gratifying intelligence to all who had the pleasure of 

 making the acquaintance of this accomplished antiquary 

 durmg his visit to this country. We hope the time is 

 not far distant when similar distinctions will be con- 

 ferred in England on men of learning. The necessity 

 for the institution of some Oiider of Merit is insisted 

 upon both in the Gentleman s Magazine for this month, 

 and T/ie Athenwiim of Saturday last: and a communi- 

 cation urging its adoption, on novel and important 

 grounds, has reached us, unfortunately at too late a 

 period in the week to admit of its insertion in our 

 present number. 



Messrs. Puttick & Simpson (191. Piccadilly) will 

 sell on Wednesday next a portion of the Library (in- 

 cluding numerous curious MSS. by Sir Isaac Newton), 

 Medals, &c. of the late Mr. Alchorne. 



Messrs. Sotheby will sell on Monday and Tuesday 

 the valuable Library of Dr. Ford, late Principal of 

 Magdalen Hall, and Professor of Arabic at Oxford; 

 and on Thnrsdiiy and two following days, a valuable 

 Collection of Theological and Miscellaneous Books. 



Cat.\logiies Re('Eivet). — T. Kershaw's (3. Park 

 Street, Bristol) Catalogue of another Portion of his 

 Valuable Stuck; W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, 

 Westminster Road) Catalogue No. 74. of Cheap 

 Second hand Englisliand Foreign Books; and Supple- 

 mentary Catalogue of Italian Books. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PUllCHASE. 



Lewis's Life OF C.\XTON. 8vo. 1737. 



CataloguI': of Joseph Ames's Librauy. 8vo. 17G0. 



Tiupp's CoMMENTAiiv. Folin. Vol. I. 



Whitlav's Pahaphkase O.N THE New Testament. Folio. Vol I. 



170C. 

 Long's Astronomy. 4to. I74'2. 

 Mad. D'Aublay's Diaky. Vol, II. 1842. 

 Adams' .Moiial Tales. 

 Autobioc.uapiiy of Dh. Johnson. IRO.i. 

 Willis's AncHiTccruitE ok the I\Iiuule Ages. (lOi. Crf. will be 



paid for a copy in f;nnd conilUJou.) 

 Cakpenteu's IJEi-UTV DiviNirv; a Discourse of Conscience. 



l'2ino. Ki.-)?. 

 A TiiuE AND Lively Representation of Popery, shewing that 



Popery is only New Modklleii Paganism, Kc. Iii79. 4to. 

 RoiiERr Wilson's Sketch of the IIisioky of Hawick. Siiiall 



8vo. Priiitud ill l«'i.'). 

 James Wilson's Annals op Hawick. Sm ill 8vo. Printed in 



Is.'iO. 

 Baiiimnoton'9 .Sketches of his own Time. Vol III. London 



ih:iii. 

 Bhuish Poets (Chalmeus", Vol. X.) London, I8IU. 



