SOUTHEY’S COMMONPLACE-BOOK, First Series; containing CHOICE PASSAGES, with “Collections for the History of English Manners and Literature,” and forming a Volume complete in itself.

London:  Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

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In the Press and will be published immediately, in 1 vol. 8vo.  Illustrated with a Map of the town in 1763, and Engravings by Basire, Le Keux, Hunter, and Childs, from Drawings by the late Richard Stileman, Esq., Buck, Blore, Hooper, S. Prout, T. Ross, Stephens, and A.D.  Gough, and Woodcuts of Arms and Seals.  Price, to subscribers, 5s.

A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF WINCHELSEA.

(Ancient and Modern,) in the County of Sussex, by William Durrant
Cooper, F.S.A.

Subscribers’ names will be received by the Publishers, John Russell Smith, 4.  Old Compton Street, Soho, London; and Henry Osborne, 55.  George Street, Hastings.

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Early Antiquities of England Illustrated.

THE PRIMAEVAL ANTIQUITIES OF DENMARK.

By J.J.A.  Worsaae, M.R.S.A., of Copenhagen.  Translated and applied to the Illustration of similar Remains in England, by William J. Thoms, Esq., F.S.A., Secretary of the Camden Society.  Illustrated with numerous Woodcuts. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

“This is the best antiquarian handbook we have ever met with—­so clear is its arrangement, and so well and so plainly is each subject illustrated by well-executed engravings, that confusion for the future is impossible upon a variety of points on which the most grievous mistakes have hitherto been made by anxious and zealous antiquarians. * * * It is the joint production of two men who have already distinguished themselves as authors and antiquarians.  It is a book of which it may be said, that in every sentence is to be found an interesting fact, and that every page teems with instructions, and may be regarded as a sure guide to all antiquarians in their future archaeological inquiries.”—­Morning Herald.

See also Gentleman’s Magazine for February, 1850.

John Henry Parker, Oxford, and 377.  Strand, London.

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ENGLISH HISTORICAL PORTRAITS.

THIS SERIES OF PORTRAITS, ILLUSTRATIVE OF ENGLISH HISTORY, is engraved from highly-finished Drawings of ORIGINAL PICTURES, existing in various Galleries and Family Collections throughout the country, made with scrupulous accuracy by Mr. G.P.  Harding; the greater portion never having been previously engraved.

M.M.  HOLLOWAY, having purchased the whole of the impressions and plates, now offers the Sets in a Folio Volume, bound in cloth, and including Biographical Letter-press to each subject, at the greatly reduced price of L2 12s. 6d., and L4 4s. 0d. for Proofs before Letters, of which but 18 copies remain.

The Collection consists of the following Portraits: