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 CONTRIBUTIONS TO LITERATURE HISTORICAL, AN- 



>-* TIQUARIAN, and METRICAL. By MARK ANTONY LOWER, M.A., F.S.A., 

 Author of " Essays on English Surnames," " Curiosities of Heraldry," &c. Post 8vo, 

 woodcuts, cloth. 7* 6d 



CONTENTS. 



1 On Local Nomenclature. 



2 On the Battle of Hastings, an Historical Essay. 



3 The Lord Dacre, his mournfid end ; a Ballad. 



4 Historical and Archseological Memoir on the Iron Works of the South 



of England, with numerous illustrations. 



5 Winchelsea's Deliverance, or the Stout Abbot of Battayle ; in Three Fyttes. 



6 The South Downs, a Sketch ; Historical, Anecdotical, and Descriptive. 



7 On Yew Trees in Church-yards. 



8 A Lyttel Geste of a G-reate Eele j a pleasaunt Ballade. 



9 A Discourse of Genealogy. 



10 An Antiquarian Pilgrimage in Normandy, with woodcuts. 



11 Miscellanea, &c. &c. &c. 



of the oldest as befits the pleasantries of an an- account of the Battle of Hastings 



tiquary, font, on the whole, we seldom meet with on the Southern Iron Works contain matter of his- 



more readable antiquarian essays than these. Most torical value, in addition to their local interest in 



of them have been printed elsewhere. One, on the connexion with the topography and archaeology of 



South Downs, contains the best of the new matter. Sussex. Among the papers now printed for the first 



The author is at home on the wide expanse of these time that on the South Downs is the most important, 



chalk ranges. He speaks with knowledge of the and will be read with much interest, both for the 



picturesque Tillages enclosed in their secluded information it contains and the pleasing style in 



nooks, of the folk-lore and legends of old daya which it is written. There are some efc*rmiac de- 



wliich still abound amongst the sequestered inhabi- scriptions of scenery, and acceptable notices of the 



tants, and of the historical associations which render history, traditions, and customs of the district. 



celebrated m^ny spots otherwise of little interest. Among the minor contributions in the volume, the 



Mhentsum. paper on Local Nomenclature is full of valuable 



Most of the papers in this volume have already suggestions. Altogether it is a volume of very 



appeared in periodicals, and in the Collections of agreeable and instructive reading. Lit. Gat. 



TTANDBOOK to the LIBRARY of the BRITISH MUSEUM, 



" *- containing a brief History of its Formation, and of the various Collections of 

 which it is composed; Descriptions of the Catalogues in present use ; Classed Lists of 

 the Manuscripts, &c. ; and a variety of Information indispensable for the " Headers" 

 at that Institution ; with Borne Account of the principal Public Libraries in London. 

 By RICHABD SIMS, of the Department of Manuscripts, Compiler of the " Index to 

 the Heralds' Visitations." Small 8vo, pp. 438, with map and plan, cloth. 5* 



It will be found a very useful work to every Library of the British Museum is a very compre- 



literary person or public institution in all parts of tensive and instructive volume. I have the sixtieth 



the world. edition of " Synopsis of the Contents of the British 



Museum" before me I cannot expect to see a six- 



What Mr. Antonio Panizzi, the keeper of the tieth edition of the Hand-book, but it deserves to be 



department of printed books, says might be done. placed by the side of the Synopsis, and I venture to 



Mr. Richard Sims, of the department of the manu- predict for it a wide circulation. Mr- Holloa 



scripts, says shall be done. His Hand-book to the Carney, in Notes and Queries, No. 213. 



A GRAMMAR of BRITISH HERALDRY, consisting of "Blazon" 



** and " Marshalling," with an Introduction on the Rise and Progress of Symbols 

 and Ensigns. By the Rev. W. SLOANE EVANS, B.A> 8vo, with 26 platts t comprising 

 upwards of 400 figures, cloth. 5s. 



One of the best introductions ever published. 



A PLEA FOR THE ANTIQUITY OF HERALDRY, with an 



** Attempt to Expound its Theory and Elucidate its History. By W. SMITH ELLIS 

 Esq., of the Middle Temple. 8vo, sewed. Is 6d 



A FEW NOTES ON SHAKESPEARE, with Occasional Remarks on 

 the .Emendations of the Manuscript -Corrector in Mr. Collier's copy of the folio, 

 1632. By the Rev. ALEXANDER DTCE. 8vo, cloth. 5s 



Mr. Dyce's Notes are peculiarly delightful, from has enabled him to enrich them. All that he has 



the stores of illustration with which his extensive recorded is valuable. We read his little volume 



reading not only among our writers, but among those with pleasure and close It with regret. Literary 



of other countries, especially of the Italian poets, Gazette. 



