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RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE, from Drawings by John Johnson, Architect, F.S.A., Lithographed by Alfred Newman.

Contents, Part 13:—­Hawton Church; Notts.—­St. Mary’s, Stamford—­Aldwinkle, All Saints, Northamptonshire-Wellingborough Church, Northamptonshire.

Part 14—­Skelton Church, from the South-East and South-West—­Rye House, Herts.—­Holbeach Church, Lincolnshire.

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THE FOLK-LORE OF ENGLAND.  By William J. Thoms, F.S.A., Secretary of the Camden Society, Editor of “Early Prose Romances,” “Lays and Legends of all Nations,” &c.  One object of the present work is to furnish new contributions to the History of our National Folk-Lore; and especially some of the more striking illustrations of the subject to be found in the Writings of Jacob Grimm and other Continental Antiquaries.