Our space will permit us to do little more than specify its principal contents; but when we state that in the present volume Mr. Craik treats of the great Earl of Cork and the Boyles; of the founders of the Fermor, Bouverie, Osborne, and Bamfylde families; that he gives us with great completeness the history of Anne Clifford, the most remarkable woman of her time; that he furnishes pleasant gossipping pictures of the rise of the families of Fox, Phips, and Petty; the history of the celebrated claim of the Trunkmaker to the honours of the Percies,—­of the story of the heiress of the Percies who married Tom Thynn of Longleat Hall; and lastly, that of Ann of Buccleugh, {415} the widow of the unfortunate Monmouth, we shall have done more than enough to make our readers wish to share the pleasure we have derived from turning over Mr. Craik’s amusing pages.

Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will sell on Monday next, and two following days, a valuable collection of books, chiefly the property of a gentleman deceased, among which we may specify la Vie Saint Germain L’Auxerrois (lettres gotheques), printed on vellum, and quite unique; no other copy even on paper being known.

We have received the following Catalogues:—­ Williams and Norgate’s (14. 
Henrietta Street, Covent Garden) German Book Circular, a Quarterly List of
New Publications, No. 26.; John Russell Smith’s (4.  Old Compton Street,
Soho) Catalogue No. 1. for 1851 of an extensive Collection of Choice,
Useful, and Curious Books in most Classes of Literature, English and
Foreign.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.

BACON’S ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING, interpreted by WATS, Oxford, 1621, 1640, folio.

STUART’S ATHENS.  First Edition.  Vols.  IV. and V.

SUPPLEMENT TO BERRY’S HERALDRY.

SPECIMEN HISTORIAE ARABUM, by POCOCK.

LA ROQUE, VOYAGE DANS LA PALESTINE.

ABULFARAQ HIST. DYNAST.

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G.W._’s Query was in type before we received his unbecoming letter,—­the terms of which both forbid our asking the name of the writer, or giving him that satisfactory explanation which we could furnish as to the delay in the insertion of his communication.  As the first letter of the kind we have ever received, we should certainly have printed it, but for our regard for personal friends who belong to the same body as G.W., and whose names he can have no difficulty in discovering in the list of our distinguished contributors._

We are compelled by want of space to omit many NOTES, QUERIES, REPLIES, and articles of FOLK-LORE.

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