While on the subject of foreign works of interest to English readers, we may mention two or three others which we have been for some time intending to bring under the notice of those who know how much light may be thrown upon our early language and literature by a study of the contemporary literature of the Low Countries.  The first is, Denkmaeler Niederdeutscher Sprache und Literatur von Dr. Albert Hoefer, Erstes Banchen, which contains the highly curious Low German Whitson play called Claws Bur.  The next is a larger, more elaborately edited, and from its introduction and extensive notes and various illustrations, a yet more interesting work to English philologists.  It is entitled Leven van Sinte Christina de Wonderbare, an old Dutch poem, now first edited from a MS. of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, by Professor Bormans.

We have received the following Catalogues:—­Thomas Kerslake’s (3.  Park Street, Bristol) Books, including valuable late Purchases; John Wheldon’s {431} (4.  Paternoster Row) Catalogue of valuable Collection of Scentific Books; W.H.  McKeay’s (11.  Vinegar Yard, Covent Garden) Catalogue of a Portion of Stock.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.

EPISTOLAE OBSCURORUM VIRORUM.

CHOIX D’ANECDOTES ORIENTALES.  Vol. 11.  Paris, 1775.

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Notices to Correspondents.

We venture to call attention to the communications from Bombay and Stockholm, which appear in our present Number, as evidences of the extending circulation, and consequently, we trust, of the increasing utility of NOTES AND QUERIES.

W.S. (Oxford) who inquires respecting Tempora Mutantur_, is referred to our First Volume_, pp. 215. 234. and 419.

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CONTINUATION OF HUME AND SMOLLETT’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, TO THE PRESENT REIGN.

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CHRONICLES OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH CHURCH, prior to the Arrival of St. Augustine, A.D. 596.  Second Edition.  Post 8to.  Price 5s. cloth.

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