ballads, and recitals of the strange incidents in which it was so rich, that this separate publication of so much of Lord Mahon’s History of England from the Peace of Utrecht (1713) to the Peace of Paris (1763) as relates to its “moving accidents by flood and field,” will be a great boon to those numerous readers who have neither means, time, nor opportunity to peruse Lord Mahon’s interesting narrative in that valuable contribution to our national history for which it was originally written.

Some time since the British Museum purchased for about 120l. a volume containing no less than sixty-four early French Farces and Moralities, printed between the year 1542 and 1548, of which a very large proportion was entirely unknown.  How important a collection of materials for the early history of the Drama, especially in France, is contained in this precious volume, we learn from a work which has reached us, “pas destine au commerce,” under the title of Description Bibliographique et Analyse d’un Livre unique qui se trouve au Musee Britannique, which contains a short but able analysis of the various pieces which formed the volume thus fortunately secured for our national library.  Though the name of the editor is stated, on the title-page, to be Tridace-Nafe-Theobrome, Gentilhomme Breton, we strongly suspect that no such gentleman is to be found; and that we are really indebted for this highly curious and interesting book to a gentleman who has already laid the world of letters under great obligation, M. Delpierre, the accomplished Secretary of Legation of the Belgian Embassy.

Literature, Science, and the Arts have sustained a heavy loss in the death of that accomplished patron of them—­that most amiable nobleman the Marquess of Northampton.  His noble simplicity and single-mindedness of character, and his unaffected kindliness of manner, endeared him to all who had the good fortune to be honoured with his acquaintance, and by all of whom his death will be long and most deeply regretted.

Mr. Sandys, F.S.A., of Canterbury, has issued a Prospectus for the immediate publication, by Subscription, of the Consuetudines Kanciae:  a History of Gavelkind and other remarkable Customs in the County of Kent.

Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will sell on Monday next, and four following days, a very select and valuable Library, the property of a gentleman deceased, including among other choice lots, two early MSS. of the Divina Comedia, and an extensive, rare, and interesting series of early editions of Dante. {78}

Books Received.—­Clark’s Introduction to Heraldry (London, Washbourne), fourteenth edition, which contains a chapter and plates, which are entirely new, on Heraldry in conjunction with Architecture;—­Hints and Queries intended to promote the Preservation of Antiquities and the Collection and Arrangement of Information on the Subject of Local History and Tradition—­a most useful little tract, highly creditable to the Kilkenny Archaeological Society, by whose order it has been printed for circulation;—­The Peril of the Papal Aggression; or, the Case as it stands between the Queen and the Pope, by Anglicanus.  London, Bosworth.