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feMttUaneaui, 



MOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



From the increased attention which is now paid to ob- 

 jects of ceramic art, there is little cause for wonder that a 

 new edition of Mr. Marryat's Histnri/ of Pottery and Por- 

 celain, MedicBval and Modern, should be called for. The 

 work i.s indeed what it professes to be, "revised and aug- 

 mented," and is brought out in a way to justify what 

 Mr. Marryat says of his publisher, " that he has spared 

 no pains "or expense in rendering the work creditable to 

 himself, and acceptable to the public." It is illustrated 

 with twelve coloured plates, and no less than 240 wood- 

 cuts: while not the least valuable portion of it is its 

 extensive Table of Marks and Monograms. It forms al- 

 together a worthy companion to 'QWch.'s. History of An- 

 cient Potten/ and Porcelain, and Labitrte's Handbook of 

 the Artx of the Middle Ages, issued by the same publisher; 

 and we can award it no higher praise. 



Whatever may be the literary merits of the late Sir 

 Charles Xapier's historical romance entitled William the 

 Conqueror, and those merits are sufRcientl.v marked and 

 numerous to secure a large body of readers, there can 

 be no doubt but that it will be read by many others 

 with two very different objects. One class will desire 

 to compare the treatment which that subject will re- 

 ceive from the man of the sword, with that which it 

 has already received from the man of the pen ; and 

 the other will be anxious to see Sir Charles's (ielinea- 

 tion of a character, which must have had many attrac- 

 tions for the conqueror of Scinde. The Norman bastard 

 won Enfcland by his good sword, and retained it by his 

 powers as an administrator. These were qualities to en- 

 sure him favours in the eyes of one who piqued himself 

 quite as much on his political abilities as on his great 

 military talents. The book, therefore, is one sure to cir- 

 culate very widely. 



La Mort d'Ar'thure : The History of King Artlmr and 

 the Knights of the Round Table. Compiled by Sir Thomas 

 Malory, Knt. Edited from the Text of the Edition of 

 1634, with Introduction and Notes. J?y Thomas Wright, 

 Esq., M.A., F.S.A., is the last contribution to Mr. Rus- 

 .sell Smith's valuable Library of Old Authors, and a 

 very welcome one it is. The popularity of Sir Thomas 

 Malory's work, which Mr. Wright well describes as " a 

 good comprehensive condensation of the romantic cj'cle 

 of King Arthur and his Knights," has been very great. 

 Not only was it printed by Caxton, twice by Wynkyn 

 de Worde, and again by AVilliam Copland ; but in the 

 present century, three editions have appeared and grown 

 rare. Two of these appeared in 181G (one under 

 the editorship of Haslewood), and in 1S17 Southey 

 edited a reprint of Caxton's text in two handsome 

 quarto volumes, which are now highly prized. Mr. 

 Wright's text is from the edition of liiSi, and is accom- 

 panied b3' notes illustrative of the obsolete words and 

 phrases which are scattered pretty thickly throughout 

 the work. So that there can be little doubt that these 

 three volumes will And favour in the sight of all lovers 

 of old romance. 



We have many more volumes waiting for our notice, 

 but must for the present content ourselves with re- 

 commending to all lovers of true poetry a little book 

 written by the gifted daughter of a gifted sire— we 

 allude to Miss Proctor's Legends and Lyrics; a Booh of 

 Verses, — in which they will find much true poetry, much 

 genuine poetic feeling warbled forth with all the metrical 

 skill for which Barry Cornwall himself is so remarkable. 

 The Uev. Charles TiowteWs Manual of British Arche- 

 ology, one of Mr. Lovell Reeve's prettily illustrated little al- 

 maine quartos, will form a pleasant travelling companion. 



■with its brief notes on Architecture, Sepulchral Monu- 

 ments, Seals, Coins, Arms, Armour, Costume, &c., just 

 sufficient to give the tourist an additional interest in 

 the antiquarian objects of his tour. 



We are happy to announce that the first portion of A 

 Catalogue of the Rawlinson Manuscripts, the value of which 

 has recently been shown in " N. & Q.," is at press. 



The Surrey Archceological Society will hold their fifth 

 Annual General Meeting at Farnham, on Tuesday next, 

 on which occasion the Bishop of Winchester has invited 

 the Members to Farnham Castle. This reminds us of 

 the Second Part of the Collections of the Society, in which 

 will be found papers on Chertsey Abbey by Mr. Pocock; 

 on the Manor of Hatcham, by Mr. Hart; on Horsely- 

 down, by Mr. Corner (very curiously illustrated) ; Surrey 

 and Southwark Wills, bj' the same gentleman ; Notices 

 of Cold Harbour, bj' Mr. Johnson; Monumental Brasses 

 at Stoke D'Abernon, by Mr. Boutell, and many other 

 miscellaneous papers. The part is altogether a very good 

 one. 



We are happy to find that onr esteemed correspondent, 

 the Rev. Joseph Bcswohth, D.D., of Christ Church, is 

 a candidate for the Anglo-Saxon professorship in the 

 University of Oxford. The other candidate is the Rev. 

 Frederic Metcalfe, B.D., Fellow of Lincoln College. Both 

 candidates are Cambridge men, but have been incor- 

 porated as members of Oxford University. 



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