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I. 1. Librorum Impressorum qui in Museo Britannico adservantur Catalogus.

2. Bibliothecæ Regiæ Catalogus. Londini, 1820.

3. Catalogus Librorum typis impressorum qui in Regia
Bibliotheca Borbonica adservantur.

4. Report from the Select Committee on the Condition,
Management, and Affairs of the British Museum.
5. Literatur früherer und noch bestehender Europäischer
öffentlicher und Corporations-Bibliotheken. Zusam-
mengestellt von Ernst Gustav Vogel, Privatlehrer zu
Dresden.

6. Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the
British Museum. Printed by order of the Trustees.
7. Bibliotheca Grenvilliana; or, Bibliographical Notices.
of Rare and Curious Books, forming part of the Library
of the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville. By John Thomas
Payne, and Henry Foss

II.-The Lady of the Manor. Being a Series of Conversations
on the Subject of Confirmation, intended for the Use of
the Middle and Higher Ranks of Young Females. By
Mrs. Sherwood

By the Author of 'Sayings and

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III.-Peregrine Bunce.
Doings,' &c. &c.
IV. Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P.
Edited by his brother, Leonard Horner, Esq., F.R.S. - 108
V.-The Waldenses, or the Fall of Rora: a Lyrical Sketch.
With other Poems. By Aubrey De Vere
VI.-Histories of Noble English Families; with Biographical
Notices of the most Distinguished Individuals in each:
Illustrated by their Armorial Bearings, Portraits, Mo-
numents, Seats, &c. Compiled and edited by Henry
Drummond, Esq. Parts I. and II. -

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VII.-1. The Nervous System of the Human Body. By Sir
Charles Bell, K.G.H., F.R.S.

2. The Hand; its Mechanism and Vital Endowments,
as evincing Design. By Sir Charles Bell.

3. Narrative of the Discoveries of Sir Charles Bell in the
Nervous System. By Alexander Shaw, Surgeon to the
Middlesex Hospital

VIII.-1. Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of
London, at the Visitation in October, 1842. By
Charles James, Lord Bishop of London.

Wither for

2. Subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles an Answer
to the Hon. and Rev. A. P. Perceval. By Charles A.
Elrington, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity in the
University of Dublin.

3. A Few Thoughts on Church Subjects. By the Rev.
Edward Scobell, A.M., Incumbent of St. Peter's, Vere
Street; Vicar of Turville, Bucks; and Lecturer at the
Parochial Church, Marylebone.

4. A Letter to a Layman on recent Changes in the Man-
ner of performing Divine Service in the Metropolitan
Churches. By the Rev. T. Haverfield, B.D.

5. Illustrations of the Liturgy and Ritual of the United
Church of England and Ireland, being Sermons and
Discourses selected from the Works of eminent Divines
who lived during the Seventeenth Century. By James
Brogden, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge

IX.-Memorandum on Waterloo

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No. CXLIV.

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I.-Bossi-Necrologia. G. C. Leonardo Sismondi

II.-1. Lectures on the Coinage of the Greeks and Romans,
delivered in the University of Oxford. By Edward
Cardwell, D.D., Principal of St. Alban's Hall, and
Camden Professor of Ancient History.

2. A Numismatic Manual. By John Yonge Akerman,
F.S.A., &c.

3. A Descriptive Catalogue of Rare and Unedited Roman
Coins, from the Earliest Period of the Roman Coinage
to the Extinction of the Empire under Constantinus
Paleologus; with numerous Plates from the Originals.
By John Yonge Akerman, F.S.A., &c.

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- 356 III.-1. Liber Sancte Marie de Melros. Munimenta Vetustiora Monasterii Cisterciensis de Melros. Presented to

the Bannatyne Club by the Duke of Buccleuch and
Queensberry.

2. Registrum Episcopatus Glasguensis. Munimenta Ec-
clesiæ Cathedralis Glasguensis à Sede Restaurata Seculo
ineunte XII. ad Reformatam Religionem. Presented to
the Maitland Club by James Ewing, LL.D.

3. Fragmenta Scoto-Monastica. Memoir of what has
been already done, and what Materials exist, towards the
Formation of a Scottish Monasticon. By a Delver in
Antiquity.

4. Horæ Decanica Rurales; being an Attempt to illus-
trate, by a Series of Notes and Extracts, the Name and
Title, the Origin, Appointment, and Functions, Per-
sonal and Capitular, of Rural Deans. By William
Dansey, A.M., Rector of Donhead St. Andrew, Rural
Dean of Chalke, Wilts

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IV. The Life of Sir David Wilkie, R.A. By Allan Cunning

ART.

V.-Theognis Restitutus. The Personal History of the Poet
Theognis deduced from an Analysis of his existing
Fragments

VI.-1. First and Second Report of the Commissioners of
Inquiry into the State of the Irish Fisheries. 1836.
2. A Bill to regulate the Irish Fisheries (prepared and
brought in by Lord Eliot and Mr. Solicitor-General for
Ireland), ordered by the House of Commons to be
printed 6th April, 1842. Received the Royal Assent
10th August, 1842

VII. History of the Dog.-[Histoire du Chien chez tous les
Peuples du Monde.] Par Elzéar Blaze

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VIII. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace
Mann, His Britannic Majesty's Resident at the Court
of Florence, from 1760 to 1785. Now first published
from the original MSS. Concluding Series
IX.-1. The Crisis Unmasked. By Eneas Macdonnell, Esq.
2. The Spirit of the Nation.

3. Irish Landlords, Rents, and Tenures; with some Ob-
servations on the Effects of the Voluntary System, by
which their Church is supported, on the Moral and
Social Condition of the Roman Catholic Population.
By an Irish Roman Catholic Landholder

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QUARTERLY REVIEW.

ART. I.-1. Librorum Impressorum qui in Museo Britannico adservantur Catalogus. Londini, 1813-1819. 8 vols. Svo. 2. Bibliotheca Regia Catalogus. Londini, excudebant Gul. Bowyer et Gul. Nicol. 1820. 5 vols., folio. [Privately printed at the expense of His Majesty King George IV.]

3. Catalogus Librorum typis impressorum qui in Regia Bibliotheca Borbonica adservantur. Neapoli, 1832. Folio, vol. i. (containing letters A., B.).

4. Report from the Select Committee on the Condition, Management, and Affairs of the British Museum. With Appendixes. 1835. 2 vols., folio.

5. Literatur früherer und noch bestehender Europäischer öffentlicher und Corporations-Bibliotheken. Zusammengestellt von Ernst Gustav Vogel, Privatlehrer zu Dresden. Leipzig, 1840. 8vo.

6. Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum. Printed by order of the Trustees. London. 1842. Folio, vol. i. (containing letter A).

7. Bibliotheca Grenvilliana; or, Bibliographical Notices of Rare and Curious Books, forming part of the Library of the Right Hon. Thomas Grenville. By John Thomas Payne and Henry Foss. London. 1842. 2 vols. 8vo.

THERE are few things which at first sight appear more easy

than the compilation of a catalogue of printed books. We look with complacency upon the well-filled shelves of our own library, and think it useless to register the titles of those volumes which are constantly in our sight, and frequently consulted; whose names are familiar in our mouths as household words. On a time some book is wanted; we know that we have it, but the author's name has slipped from our memory; the volume provokingly eludes our search, and we unthinkingly exclaim, 'We will have a catalogue; a mere alphabetical list; it is only to copy or abridge the title-pages. e-pages.' We almost despise the easy labour: we begin, not foreseeing any impediment to our progress, and we go on until some anonymous volume with a quaint title-page puzzles us with the question, Where will you put me?' Glad to escape from

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