C. FORBES.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.

Such of our readers as do not possess Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, which Mr. Way, a very competent authority, lately designated in our columns as Mr. Halliwell’s “useful glossarial collections,” will be glad to learn that Mr. Russell Smith has announced a second and cheaper edition of it.

The new number of the Archaeological Journal is a very interesting one.  That portion if it, more particularly, which relates the Proceedings of the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute, contains a great mass of curious and valuable information; made the more available and instructive by means of the admirable woodcuts by which it is illustrated.

We have received several curious communications on the subject of Parish Registers, with reference to the article on “Early Statistics,” and the “Registers of Chart, Kent,” to which we shall endeavour to give early insertion.  We have also received a copy of A Letter addressed to R. Monckton Milnes, Esq.  M.P., on the Condition and unsafe State of Ancient Parochial Registers in England and the Colonies, to which we beg to direct the attention of such of our friends as take an interest in this important subject.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of 191.  Piccadilly, will sell on Monday, the 29th instant, and three following days, a selection from the valuable library of the Rev. Dr. Maitland.  Although only a selection from the library of the learned historian of the Dark Ages, the Catalogue exhibits, in addition to numerous Polyglot and other important editions of the Scriptures, and the great collections of Baronius, Mabillon, Dupin, Martene, and Durand, &c., a vast number of works of the highest value in the departments of Theology and Ecclesiastical History.

We have received the following Catalogues:—­Part III. for 1850 of J. Russell Smith’s (4.  Old Compton Street) Catalogue of Books and Autographs, chiefly Old and Curious.  Part II. for 1850 of a Catalogue of Choice, Useful, and Interesting Books, in fine condition, on sale by Waller and Son (188.  Fleet Street).

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

WANTED TO PURCHASE.

(In continuation of Lists in former Nos.)

SACRED SONGS, DUETS, AND TRIOS, Words by Thomas Moore; Music by
Stephenson and Moore.  Power, Strand.

SIR PETER PETT’S DISCOURSE OF THE GROWTH OF ENGLAND, &c. (being the 2nd edition of the “Happy Future of England.”)

MONK’S LETTERS RELATING TO THE RESTORATION, published by Toland, 1714-15.

LADY RUSSELL’S LETTERS, edited by Miss Berry.

DU QUESNE’S ACCOUNT OF BOURBON, published in Holland about 1689.