The Numbers of this Magazine for February and March have exhibited
several alterations in the arrangement and character of its contents.
They have been adopted in order to make it, more than ever, a worthy
organ and representative of Historical and Antiquarian Literature.
These Numbers contain, among others, articles by J. Payne Collier, Esq.,
Peter Cunningham, Esq., John Bowyer Nichols, Esq., John George Nichols,
Esq., Charles Roach Smith, Esq., W.J. Thoms, Esq., J.G. Waller, Esq.,
and Thomas Wright, Esq.; Articles on the present state of Architectural
Literature, on Christian Iconography and Legendary Art, and on the
intended Exhibition of Ancient and Mediæval Art; Letters of Dr. Johnson
and Alexander Pope, and original Log of the Battle of Trafalgar; Reviews
of Campbell's Lives of the Judges, Hanna's Life of Dr. Chalmers,
Worsaae*'s Primeval Antiquities, Merimée's Pedro the Cruel, Ticknor's
Spanish Literature, Washington Irving's Mahomet, Milman's Tasso,
Craick's Romance of the Peerage, Jones's Life of Chantrey, Boutell's
Christian Monuments (with four plates), &c. &c. With Notes of the Month,
Antiquarian Researches, and Historical Chronicle. The Obituary includes
Memoirs of the Earl of Carnarvon, Bishop Coleridge, Admiral Lord
Colville, Admiral Sir F. Collier, Sir Charles Forbes, Bart., Sir M.I.
Brunel, Edw. Doubleday, Esq., Denis C. Moylan, Esq., Lieutenant Waghorn,
John Barker, Esq., Ebenezer Elliott, John Duncan, Lord Jeffrey, Sir
Felix Booth, Mr. Serjeant Lawes, Thomas Stapleton, Esq., Rev. Dr. Byrth,
Edward Du Bois, Esq., Mrs. Bartley, &c. &c.
Published by J.B. NICHOLS and SON, Parliament Street; and sold by all
Booksellers. Price 2s. 6d.
Preparing for immediate publication, in 2 vols. small 8vo.
THE FOLK-LORE OF ENGLAND. By WILLIAM J. THOMS, F.S.A., Secretary of the
Camden Society, Editor of "Early Prose Romances," "Lays and Legends of
all Nations," &c. One object of the present work is to furnish new
contributions to the History of our National Folk-Lore; and especially
some of the more striking Illustrations of the subject to be found in
the Writings of Jacob Grimm and other Continental Antiquaries.
Communications of inedited Legends, Notices of remarkable Customs and
Popular Observances, Rhyming Charms, &c. are earnestly solicited, and
will be thankfully acknowledged by the Editor. They may be addressed to
the care of Mr. Bell, Office of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street.
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Vols. I and II. 8vo., price 28s. cloth.
THE JUDGES OF ENGLAND; from the TIME of the CONQUEST. By EDWARD FOSS,
F.S.A.
"A work in which a subject of great historical importance is treated
with the care, diligence, and learning it deserves; in which Mr. Foss
has brought to light many points previously unknown, corrected many
errors, and shown such ample knowledge of his subject as to conduct it
successfully through all the intricacies of a difficult investigation,
and such taste and judgment as will enable him to quit, when occasion
requires, the dry details of a professional inquiry, and to impart to
his work, as he proceeds, the grace and dignity of a philosophical
history."--_Gent. Mag._