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IX.  A PLEA FOR THE FAITHFUL RESTORATION OF OUR ANCIENT CHURCHES.  By GEORGE GILBERT SCOTT, Architect.  Crown 8vo. 2s. 6d.

X. AN ESSAY ON THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF WINDOW TRACERY IN ENGLAND.  With Numerous Illustrations.  Two Parts, 8vo., price 5s. each.

XI.  A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN GRECIAN, ROMAN, ITALIAN, AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE.  Exemplified by upwards of Eighteen Hundred Illustrations, drawn from the best Examples.  Fifth Edition, 3 vols. 8vo. cloth, gilt tops, 2l. 8s.

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THE PUBLISHERS’ CIRCULAR AND GENERAL RECORD OF BRITISH and FOREIGN LITERATURE, containing a complete alphabetical list of all new works published in Great Britain, and every work of interest published abroad.  On the 15th instant, will be published No. 312. vol. xiii. price 4d., (subscription, 8s. per annum), stamped.  To book societies, book-buyers, and all persons engaged in literary pursuits, the “Circular” is of material service, containing, as it does, a perfect transcript of the Title, number of Pages and Plates, Size, and Price of every Book published in the United Kingdom, or imported from Foreign Countries,—­a desideratum never before attempted in England.  It contains also the Advertisements and Announcements of all the principal publishing houses.  To publishers it is one of the most useful channels for advertising their publications, as well as all other matters relating to the trade, there being but few booksellers who do not find it to their interest to read and circulate it.  Issued every Fortnight.  Published on the 1st and 15th of every month, by SAMPSON LOW, at the office, 169.  Fleet-street, London.

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Preparing for publication, in 2 vols. small 8vo.

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 objec. 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.

Communications of inedited Legends, Notices of remarkable Customs and Popular Observances, Rhyming Charms, &c. are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully acknowledged by the Editor.  They may be addressed to the care of Mr. BELL, Office of “NOTES AND QUERIES,” 186.  Fleet Street.

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TESTIMONIAL TO DR. CONOLLY.—­At a meeting held at 12.  Old Burlington Street, Saturday, August 3d. 1850, the Right Hon. Lord Ashley in the chair; the following resolutions among others were unanimously agreed to: