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r2«<i S. VI. 131., July 3. '58. 



■which they had heen boand up for the purpose of com- ' 

 pleting the copy, themselves dating from about the mid- ; 

 die (Dr. Cureton supposes) of the fourth century. From 

 the great antiquity and independent character of these 

 remains, they will form henceforth an important item in 

 our materials for confirming or correcting the Sacred 

 Text. \Ve ought to add that they are accompanied by a 

 translation. 



The two pretty volumes of The Ballads of Scotland, 

 edited hij VV. E. Aytoun, which have Just been issued by 

 Messrs. Blackwood, will be regarded with unmixed satis- 

 faction by those who love these outpourings of the old 

 national feeling for their own intrinsic beaut}' and poetry. 

 To readers of this class the work will be indeed a trea- 

 •sure: but to the mere antiquary, who loving " a ballad 

 in print" loves it all the better for the rudeness of the 

 type, the coarseness of the paper, and who does not ob- 

 ject if such rudeness and coarseness extend to the lan- 

 guage and incidents of the ballad itself, the collection 

 will be somewhat disappointing. No such marks of an- 

 tiquity will be found in the work before us. These rare 

 old songs have been edited with great good taste, and all 

 must be pleased with Professor Aytoun's Introduction, 

 and with tlie literary and historical notices which he has 

 prefixed to the various ballads. 



Those of our classical and antiquarian friends who have 

 admired Mr. Ashpitel's admirable picture of the Restora- 

 tion of Ancient Rome, now exhibiting at the Royal 

 Academy, will thank us for calling their attention to the 

 Description and Key, shouniifi the authorities for the various 

 Restorations, which has been published by Mr. Ashpitel, 

 and which proves him to he as sound an antiquarian as he 

 is an accomplished draughtsman. 



It is long since we have seen a volume which more 

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 reached us entitled Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Cen- 

 tury in England, H'ales, and Ireland In/ Corporations, 

 Merchants, Tradesmen, ^-c, described and illustruted by 

 William Boyne, F.S.A. How many thousaiul tokens are 

 here described we will not attempt to calculate, but 576 

 pages are occupied in the catalogue of them. Fifty-four 

 pages, each containing three columns, are filled with the 

 Index of Names and Places, and forty-two plates are 

 employed to represent the more curious varieties. Are 

 we not then justified in calling this a very complete 

 book upon the subject? 



In the very curious and valuable Catalogue of Dr. 

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