imitate; and is executed with a tact which will no doubt render it very acceptable to those for whom it has been written, namely those persons whose avocations of business or pleasure lead them to traverse the thoroughfares of the great metropolis; and to whom it points out in a manner which we have correctly designated gossiping, pleasant, and suggestive, “such sites and edifices as have been rendered classical by the romantic or literary associations of past times.”

Messrs. Williams and Norgate have forwarded to us a Catalog of an extensive Collection of Books, the property of a distinguished physician, which are to be sold by auction in Berlin on the 21st of October.  The library, which was forty years in forming, is remarkable for containing, besides numerous rare works in Spanish, Italian, French, and English Literature, a curious series of works connected with the American aborigines; and a most extensive collection of works on the subjects of Prison Discipline, Poor Laws, and those other great social questions which are now exciting such universal attention.

We have received the following Catalogues:  J. Miller’s (43.  Chandos Street, Trafalgar Square) Catalogue No. 11, for 1850 of Books Old and New, including a large Number of scarce and curious Works on Ireland, its Antiquities, Topography, and History; W. Heath’s (29-1/2.  Lincoln’s Inn Fields) Catalogue No. 5. for 1850 of Valuable Second-hand Books in all Departments of Literature.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

WANTED TO PURCHASE

TRANSLATION OF THE FRENCH LETTERS IN THE APPENDIX TO FOX’S HISTORY OF JAMES II. 4to. 1808 HUTTON’S (W.) ROMAN WALL, 8vo. 1801

——­ BARBERS, a Poem. 8vo. 1793 (Genuine edition, not the facsimile copy.)

——­ EDGAR AND ELPRIDA, 8vo. 1794

Odd Volumes.

BEYAN’S DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS, 4to.  London, 1816.  Vol.  I.

SULLY’S MEMOIRS, Eight Volumes in French.  London, 1763.  Vol.  II LES
AVENTURES DE GIL BLAS.  London, 1749.  Vols.  I and II.

Letters, stating particulars and lowest prices, carriage free, to be sent to Mr. Dell, Publisher of “NOTES AND QUERIES,” 186 Fleet Street.

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Volume the First of Notes and Queries, with Title-page and very copius Index, is now ready, price 9s. 6d., bound in cloth, and may be had, by order, of all Booksellers and newsmen.

The Monthly Part for September, being the Fourth of Vol.  II, is also now ready, price 1s.

Notes and Queries may be procured by the Trade at noon on Friday:  so that our country Subscribers ought to experience no difficulty in receiving it regularly.  Many of the country Booksellers are probably not yet aware of this arrangement, which enables them to receive Copies in their Saturday parcels.