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has expended learning and industry in making known 

 the lives and labours of others deserves the record he be- 

 stows." That Maloue was of this class all students of 

 Shakspeare and Drvden know full well ; and every one 

 who, like ourselves, delights in anecdotical literature, will 

 hold that it was a fortunate moment when the author of the 

 work before us was induced to look over the books, letters, 

 and memoranda of the great commentator, which form 

 the basis of this very amusing volume. Malone, blest with 

 independence, and devoting himself to letters from a pure 

 love of literature, passed a life which was barren of inci- 

 dents calculated to invest his biography with any great 

 amount of interest. But associating as he did with the 

 best and wisest of his contemporaries, and jotting down, 

 as was his wont, their remarks and his own on all that 

 was notable among men and books, it is not to be won- 

 dered at that with such materials Sir James Prior has 

 produced a volume so full of pleasant gossip, — now of 

 Shakspeare and Spenser, now of Pope and " Lady Mar}'," 

 now of Sir Robert Walpole and Junius, now of Sir Joshua, 

 and now of Dr. Johnson — that it bids fair to rival that 

 storehouse of literary odds and ends, the well-known 

 Anecdotes of Books and Men by Joseph Spence. 



A Dictionary of Dates relating to all Apes and Nations, 

 for Universal Reference ; comprehending Remarkable Oc- 

 currences, Ancient and Modern, &'c, §r. By Joseph Haydn. 

 Ninth Edition, revised and greatly enlarged by Benjamin 

 Vincent. (Moxon & Co.) 



The great value of this Dictionary of Dates has been 

 so generally recognised, that it has alreadj' reached a 

 Ninth Edition. This Ninth Edition may, however, be 

 considered rather as a new book, thanks to the care and 

 pains bestowed upon it by Mr. Vincent, who has revised 

 and continued the chronological tables ; inserted above 

 five hundred new articles ; rewritten a large number of 

 others ; compared the important dates with recognised 

 authorities ; and supplied much biographical, geogra- 

 phical, literary, and scientific information. The volume, 

 indeed, contains so vast a mass of well-digested, and 

 therefore readily available dates and facts, as to become 

 almost an indispensable companion to every library. 



TVycliffe and the Huguenots, or Sketches of the Rise of 

 the Reformation in England, and of the Early History of 

 Protestantism in France. By the Rev. William Hanna, 

 LL.D. (Constable & Co.) 



In this little volume, which contains the substance of 

 two courses of lectures delivered before the Philosophical 

 Institution of Edinburgh, the reader who may be disin- 

 clined to wade through the more elaborate works which 

 have from time to time appeared upon the life and writ- 

 ings of our first reformer, or on the rise and progress of 

 Protestantism in France, will find the salient points of 

 both brought before him in a very effective manner. And 

 if, as is probable, he should from the perusal of these 

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 the Huguenots as to wish to become more fully acquainted 

 with them, Dr. Hanna has in his Preface supplied him 

 with ample references to the best authorities on the re- 

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The Magazines of this month, which we have been 

 unable to notice until now, are all good ; for while Fraser 

 delights us with papers of its usual able and instinctive 

 character, it gives in addition the commencement of a 

 new tale by Mr. Peacock, which will please his old ad- 

 mirers. — The Cornhill Magazine improves, if it be pos- 

 sible, with age. Lovell the Widower, Framley Parsonage, 

 and Mr. Sala's Hogarth, are all admirable this month. — 

 Tom Brown at Oxford is now among breakers ; but Mr. 

 Hughes bids fair by this contribution to Macmillan's 

 Magazine both to secure the popularity of that journal, 



and to reverse, in the case of his admirable story, the old 

 and stereotyped decision that " continuations "are never 

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Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore, 

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This third Part, which is embellished with a portrait 

 of Rogers, brings down the Memoirs of the poet to the 

 close of the year 1819, when he was sojourning in Rome. 



Routledge's Illustrated Natural History. By the Rev. 

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