Valuable and Interesting Books, Published or Sold by 



pETROSPECTIVE REVIEW (New Series) ; consisting of Criticisms 

 --*' upon, Analysis of, and Extracts from curious, useful, valuable, and scarce Old 

 Books. Vol. 1, 8vo, pp. 436, cloth. 10s 6d 



\* Publislied Quarterly at 2s. 6d. each Number. No. VII is published this day. 



CONTENTS OP No. V. 



1 Sir William Davenant, Poet Laureate and Dramatist, 1673. 



2 Cooke's " Poor Man's Case," 1648. 



3 Old English Letter-writing ; Angel Day's English Secretary, 1592 ; 



W. Fulwood's Enemy of Idlenesse. 



4 The Old Practice of Gardening ; Thos. Hyll's Briefe and Pleasaunt 



Treatise, 1563. 



5 English Political Songs and Satires, from King John to George I. 



6 Medieval Travellers in the Holy Land. 



7 The Athenian Letters, by Lord Hardwicke and others. 



8 The Writings of Wace the Trouvere. 



ANECDOTA LITEBAEIA. Pepy's Directions for the Disposition of 

 his Library ; A Legendary Poem of the 15th Century, the Story 

 laid at Falmouth, in Cornwall : both now first printed. 



CONTENTS OF No. VL 



1 Drayton's Polyolbion. 



2 Penn's No Cross No Crown. 



3 Lambarde's Perambulation of Kent. 



4 Philosophy of the Table in the Time of Charles ! 

 6 Russia under Peter the Great. 



6 Life and Works of Leland, the Antiquary. 



7 The Decay of Good Manners. 



8 Stephen's Essayes and Characters, 1615. 



ANECDOTA LITEBABIA. The Child of Bristow, a Metrical Legend. 

 Now first printed. 



The title of this Review explains its objects. It to interest modem readers; we shall lay before them 



is intended to supply a place unfilled in our periodi- from time to time, essays on various branches of 



cal literature, and this first number is very satis- the literature of former dayB, English or foreign ; 



factory. The papers are varied and interesting, not we shall give accounts of rare and curious books ; 



overlaid l)y the display of too much learning for the point out and bring forwardbeauties from forgotten 



general reader, but showing sufficient research and authors ; and tell the knowledge and opinions of 



industry on the part of the writers to distinguish other days." The design is well carried out in this 



the articles from mere ephemeral reviews of passing number, and will, no doubt, be further developed as 



publications. In the prospectus the editor says the work advances. It is to be published quarterly, 



" It is our design to select, from the vast field of the at a very moderate price, and will, we have no doubt, 



literature of the past, subjects which are most likely prove a successful undertaking Atlas. 



TJEMAINS OF PAGAN SAXONDOM, principally from Tumuli in 

 -*-' England. Drawn from the Originals. Described and Illustrated by JOHN 

 YONGE AKEBMAN, Fellow and Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries. 4to, parts 

 1 to 9. 2s 6d each (ft. 10 in the press). 



The plates are admirably executed by Mr. Basire, and coloured under the direction of the Author. 

 It is a work well worthy the notice of the Archaeologist. 



^ITILTSHIRE TALES, illustrative of the Manners, Customs, and Dialect 

 * " of that and Adjoining Counties. By JOHN YONGE AKEEMAN. 12mo, cloth. 2s 6d 



We will conclude with a simple, but hearty re- mendation of preserving the old songs (and the airs 



commendation of a little book whieh is as humour- to which they are sung), which are still to be heard 



ous, for the drolleries of the stories, as it is in- at most harvest homes and other merry makings, 



teresting as a picture of rustic manners. Tall'u's the well-known " Here's a health to our meester," 



Weekly Paper. and a "A pie upon the pear tree top" among the 



Mr. Akerman's WILTSHIBE TALUS embody rest. Both to the philologist, therefore, and to the 



most of the provincialisms peculiar to this county general reader, the book is an interesting one. 



and the districts of other counties lying on its Salisbury and Winchester Journal. 

 northern borders, and possess the additional recom- 



HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF THE TOWN OF 

 MAELBOBOTJGH, and more generally of the entire Hundred of Selkley in 

 Wiltshire. By JAMES WAYIEN, Esq. Thick 8vo, woodcuts, cloth. 14* 



This volume describes a portion of Wilts not occupied by Sir R. C. Hoare and other topographers. 



