14 VALUABLE AND INTERESTING- BOOKS. 



ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE OF THE COUNTY OP 



ESSEX, from the Is T orman Era to the Sixteenth Century; with Plans, Elevations, 

 Sections, Details, &c., from a Series of measured Drawings and Architectural and 

 Chronological Descriptions. By James Hadfield, Architect. Imperial 4to, SO plates, 

 'leather back, cloth sides, 1. Us. 6d. 



HISTOIRE DE L' ARCHITECTURE SACREE du quatrieme au 

 dixieme siecle dans les anciens eve'ches de Geneve, Lausanne et Sion. Par J. D. 

 Blavignac, Architecte. One vol. 8vo (pp. 450), and 37 Plates, and a 4to Atlas of 82 

 plates of Architecture, Sculpture, Frescoes, Reliquaries, $-c. %-c. 2. 10$. 



A very remarkable Book, and worth the notice of the Architect, the Archaeologist, 

 and the Artist. 



popular $0ctrg, STaics, atrti Superstitions* 



mHE NURSERY RHYMES OP ENGLAND, collected chiefly from 

 X Oral Tradition. Edited by J.O. Halliwell. The Fifth Edition, enlarged, with nu- 



merous Designs, by W. B. Scott, Director of the School of Design, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



12mo, cloth, gilt leaves, 4s. 6d. 



POPULAR RHYMES AND NURSERY TALES, with Historical 



Elucidations. By J. 0. Halliwell. 12mo, cloth, 4s. 6d. 



This very interesting volume on the Tra- Rhymes, Places and Families, Superstition 

 ditional Literature of England is divided Rhymes, Custom Rhymes, and Nursery 

 into Nursery Antiquities, Fireside Nursery Songs ; a large number are here printed for 

 Stories, Game Rhymes, Alphabet Rhymes, the Jirst time. It may be considered a 

 Riddle Rhymes, Nature Songs, Proverb sequel to the preceding article. 



OLD SONGS AND BALLADS. A Little Book of Songs and Ballads, 

 gathered from Ancient Music Books, MS. and Printed, by E. F. Rimbault, LL.D., 

 F.S.A., &c., elegantly printed in post 8vo, pp.240, half morocco, 6s. 

 " Dr. Rimbault has been at some pains used to delight the rustics of former 



to collect the words of the Songs which times." Atlas. 



BALLAD ROMANCES. By R. H. Home, Esq., Author of Orion," 



&c. 12mo (pp. 248), cloth, 3s. (original price Cs. 6d.) 



Containing the Noble Heart, a Bohemian "Pure fancy of the most abundant and 



Lt'gend; the Monk of Swineshead Abbey, picturesque description. Mr. Home should 

 a ballad Chronicle of the Deatli of King write us more Fairy Ta'es; we know none 

 John ; the Three Knights of Camelott, a to equal him since the days of Drayton an 

 Fairy Tale; the Ballad of Delora, or the Herrick." Examiner. 

 Passion of Andrea Como ; Bedd Gelert, a " The opening poem in this volume is a 



Welsh Legend; Ben Capstan, a Ballad of fine one; it is entitled the 'Noble Heart,' 

 the Night Watch; the Elfe of the Wood- and not only in title but in treatment 

 lands, a Child's Story. well imitates the style of Beaumont and 



Fletcher." Athenaum. 



WILTSHIRE TALES, illustrative of the Manners, Customs, and 



Dialect of that and adjoining Counties. By John Yonge Akerman. 12mo, cloth, 2s. 6d. 



" We will conclude with a simple but the stories as it is interesting as a picture 



hearty recommendation of a little book of rustic manners." 



which is as humorous for the drolleries of Tallis's Weekly Paper. 



MERRY TALES OP THE WISE MEN OP GOTHAM. Edited by 



James Orchard Halliwell, Esq., F.S.A. Post 8vo, Is. 



SAINT PATRICK'S PURGATORY. An Essay on the Legends of 

 Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, current during the Middle Ages. By Thomas Wright, 

 M.A., F.S.A., &c. Post 8vo, cloth, 6s. 



" It must be observed that this is not a over, it embrace? a singular chapter of lite- 

 mere account of St. Patrick's Purgatory, ravy history, omitted by Warton and all 

 but a complete history of the legends and former writers with whom we are acquaint- 

 superstitions relating to the subject, from ed; and we think we may add, that it forms 

 the earliest times, rescued from old MSS. the best introduction to Dante that has yet 

 as well as from old printed books. More- been published." Literary Gazette. 



