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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

Agreeing with Mr. Lower, that they who desire to know the truth as to the earlier periods of our national history, will do wisely to search for it among the mists and shadows of antiquity, and rather collect it for themselves out of the monkish chronicles than accept the statements of popular historiographers, we receive with great satisfaction the addition to our present list of translations of such chronicles, which Mr. Lower has given us in _The Chronicle of Battel Abbey from 1066 to 1176, now first translated, with Notes, and an Abstract of the subsequent History of the Establishment_. The original Chronicle, which is preserved among the Cottonian MSS., though known to antiquaries and historians, was never committed to the press until the year 1846, when it was printed by the _Anglia Christiana Society_ from a transcript made by the late Mr. Petrie. Mr. Lower's translation has been made from that edition; and though undertaken by him as an illustration of local history, will be found well deserving the perusal of the general reader, not only from the light it throws upon the Norman invasion and upon the {231} history of the abbey founded by the Conqueror in fulfilment of his vow, but also for the pictures it exhibits of the state of society during the period which it embraces.

BOOKS RECEIVED.--_The Embarrassment of the Clergy in the Matter of Church Discipline._ Two ably written letters by Presbyter Anglicanus, reprinted, by request, from the _Morning Post_;--_Ann Ash, or the Foundling_, by the _Author of 'Charlie Burton' and 'The Broken Arm.'_ If not quite equal to _Charlie Burton_, and there are few children's stories which are so, it is a tale well calculated to sustain the writer's well-deserved reputation;--_Burns and his Biographers, being a Caveat to Cavillers, or an Earnest Endeavour to clear the Cant and Calumnies which, for half a Century, have clung, like Cobwebs, round the Tomb of Robert Burns._

Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, of 93. Wellington Street, Strand, will sell on Monday next, and five following days, the valuable Library of the late Mr. Andrews of Bristol, containing, besides a large collection of works of high character and repute, some valuable Historical, Antiquarian, and Heraldic Manuscripts.

CATALOGUES RECEIVED.--John Gray Bell's (17. Bedford Street, Covent Garden) Catalogue of Autograph Letters and other Documents; John Alex. Wilson's (20. Upper Kirkgate, Aberdeen) Catalogue of Cheap Books, many Rare and Curious; E. Stibbs' (331. Strand) Catalogue Part III. of Books in all Languages.

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The same, Second Edition, under the title of ESSAI PHILOSOPHIQUE SUR LE GOUVERNEMENT CIVIL, SELON LES PRINCEPS DE FENELON. 12mo. Londres, 1721.

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_We are this week compelled by want of room to postpone many interesting papers, among which we may mention one by_ LORD BRAYBROOKE _on_ Portraits of Distinguished Englishmen, _and one by_ SIR F. MADDEN _on the_ Collection of Pictures of Bart. del Nave purchased by Charles I. _Our next Number will be enlarged to 24 pages, so as to include these and many other valuable communications, which are now waiting for insertion._

LUCIUS QUESTORIUS. _It is obvious that we have no means of explaining the discrepancy to which our correspondent refers. If we rightly understand his question, it is one which the publisher alone can answer._

ENQUIRER (Milford). _The copy of_ Hudibras _described is worth from fifteen to twenty shillings._

W. H. G. _A coin of Aphrodisia in Caria. Has our correspondent consulted Mr. Akerman's_ Numismatic Manual?

J. N. G. G. _Anania, Azaria, and Mizael, occurring in the_ Benedicite, _are the Hebrew names of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. See_ Daniel, i. 7.

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No. 70., p. 169., col. 2., 1. 43., for "O_p_oriensis" read "O_ss_oriensis;" and line 45., for "Oss_e_ry" read "Oss_o_ry." No. 72., p. 213., col. 2., l. 17., for "authority" read "authorship."

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