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the Museum copies will be invaluable for future work in 

 German lexicography. Of great but totally dissimilar in- 

 terest is a copy of Boulanger's work against Christianity, 

 with manuscript notes by Voltaire. These annotations are 

 of a different character from what might have been 

 expected, frequently exposing the errors and ignorance of 

 the author. Very interesting, too, are a copy of the " Dial,' 

 the organ of the American Transcendentalists, with the names 

 of the authors of the respective articles supplied in the 

 handwriting of Emerson ; and Southey's own copy, perhaps 

 the only one extant, of the Westminster School magazine, 

 "The Flagellant," in which he wrote a protest against 

 flogging, which occasioned his expulsion. Other acquisitions 

 of similar character are Terrien, Commentaire du Droit 

 Civil : a presentation copy from the antiquary Lambarde to 

 Sir Roger Manwood, with a long autograph letter inserted. 

 Edwardes' translation of Csesar : a presentation copy to Ben 

 Jonson, with the autograph of the latter. Campbell's Poems, 

 1837 : presentation copy, with his autograph, and a copy of 

 " Hohenlinden " in his writing. Leigh Hunt's " Imagination 

 and Fancy," a proof or revise with manuscript notes and 

 corrections by the author. John Landseer's Lectures on the 

 Art of Engraving, with copious manuscript additions by the 

 author. Athenseus, with manuscript notes by Porson. 

 Pinkerton on Medals, with manuscript notes by Horace Wal- 

 pole. Bowring's Life of Bentham, with letters inserted, and 

 other additions in manuscript. Goody Two Shoes, edition of 

 1796, with a long manuscript note by John Winter Jones, 

 late Principal Librarian of the British Museum, in sup- 

 port of the claim of his grandfather, Giles Jones, to the 

 authorship. Hazlitt's Conversations with Northcote, with 

 manuscript notes by Northcote himself. In this place may 

 be mentioned another curiosity, the " Zilveren Echtz-zang 

 aan den Heere J. G. F. Myners en de weledele Vrouwe 

 Elizabeth Hamilton," Amsterdam, 1771, printed on satin, and 

 bound in silk richly decorated with silver embroidery. 



Donations. — The most extensive donation received during 

 the past year is one previously adverted to, of upwards of a 

 thousand pamphlets presented by the National Liberal Club. 

 An extensive collection of Colonial newspapers has, as in 

 former years, been presented by the Royal Colonial Institute. 

 The Library is further indebted to the Scottish Bible Society 

 for the complete Japanese Bible recently published in Japan; 

 to Sir H. Edwardes, Bart., for an indulgence of Pope Julius IL, 

 printed by Pynson early in the sixteenth century ; to Henry 

 N. Stevens, Esq., for a superb edition of Charles the Fifth's 

 Laws of the Indies, edited by the late Henry Stevens, F.S.A., 

 and to Miss Townsend, for " Townsend's Journal of Fashion," 

 sets of which are now scarce and valuable. 



