Many particulars in the memoir are new in the biography of the great architect.  Mr. Planche’s too brief Remarks on the Costume make us join with Mr. Collier in regretting that he did not extend to all the plates “the resources of his attainments and talents;” while the five masques and the general preface, contributed by Mr. Collier, form by no means the least valuable portion of a volume which cannot fail to give satisfaction to all the members of the society by which it is issued.

Mr. Kerslake, of Bristol, has just issued a small Catalogue of Books bought at Brockley Hall, and some which formerly belonged to Browne Willis, which contains some interesting articles, such as No. 222, M’Cormick’s Memoirs of Burke, with numerous MS. notes throughout by J. Horne Tooke; the first edition of Wit’s Recreation, 1640, with a MS. note by Sir F. Freeling:—­“I have never seen another perfect copy of the first edition.”  That in Longman’s Bib.  Ang.  Poetica, wanted frontispiece and 4 leaves, and was priced 7_l_. 7_s_.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, who have during the present week been selling the curious Dramatic Library, printed and manuscript, and the theatrical portraits of the late Mr. James Winston, will commence, on Monday, the sale of Mr. Mitchell’s Collection of Autograph Letters.  The most interesting portion of these are eight-and-forty unpublished letters by Garrick, among which is one written to his brother Peter, commenced on the day on which he made his appearance on the London boards and finished on the following.  In it he communicates his change of occupation to his brother, premising that since he had been in business he had “run out four hundred pounds, and found trade not increasing,” and had now begun to think of some way of redeeming his fortune. “My mind (as you know) has always been inclined to the stage; nay, so strongly so, that all my illness and lowness of spirits was owing to my want of resolution to tell you my thoughts when here....  Though I know you will be displeased with me, yet I hope when you shall find that I may have the genius of an actor without the vices, you will think less severe of me, and not be ashamed to own me for a brother.”  He makes an offer as to the transfer of his business, stock, &c. “Last night I played Richard the Third to the surprise of every body; and as I shall make very near 300_l_. per annum of it, and as it is really what I doat upon, I am resolved to pursue it.”  In a postscript, he adds, “I have a farce (The Lying Valet), coming out at Drury-lane.”  And his progress in his new profession is shown in another letter, addressed also to his brother Peter, on the 19th of April following, in which, after mentioning some affairs of business connected with their wine trade, he says: