Every reader of the _Archaeologia_ knows so well the great value of the
papers contained in it (too few in number) by the Rev. John Webb, that he
will be sure that any work edited by that gentleman will be edited with
diligence, intelligence, and learning. Such is the _Roll of the Household
Expenses of Richard de Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, during part of the
Years 1289 and 1290_, which he has just edited for the Camden Society, in a
manner every way worthy of his reputation, which is that of one of the best
antiquaries of the day. The present volume contains only the Roll, its
endorsement, and an appendix of contemporary and explanatory documents, the
whole being richly annotated by the editor. Another volume will contain his
introduction, glossary, &c. On its completion we shall again call attention
to a work which is so creditable both to Mr. Webb and to the Camden
Society.
The third volume of the cheap and handsome library edition of _The Works of
Oliver Goldsmith_, edited by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A., which forms a
portion of _Murray's British Classics_, contains I. _The Bee_; II.
_Essays_; III. _Unacknowledged Essays_; and IV. _His Prefaces,
Introductions, &c._
Our photographic friends will be glad to hear that a new edition of
Professor Hunt's _Manual of Photography_ has just been issued, in which the
author, besides including all the most recent improvements, the process of
photographic etching, &c., has taken the opportunity of making such
alterations in the arrangements of the several divisions of the subject, as
have enabled him to place the various phenomena in a clearer view.
While on the subject of scientific publications, we notice the very able
volume just issued by Professor Beale, _The Microscope, and its Application
to Clinical Medicine_. Though addressed more particularly to medical
practitioners, it contains so much valuable instruction with respect to the
management of the microscope generally, as to render it a valuable guide to
all who are engaged in microscopic investigations.
Dr. Latham will lecture on Thursday next at the Beaumont Institution, Mile
End Road, _On the various Families of Mankind in the Russian and Turkish
Empires_. The Lecture is for the benefit of the Colet Schools of the very
poor district of St. Thomas, Stepney.
BOOKS RECEIVED.--_The Statistical Companion for 1854_, by T. C. Banfield,
Esq., is a most valuable compendium of a mass of statistical evidence
gathered from Parliamentary Blue Books, and other authentic sources, thus
supplying in one small volume the results of many very large
ones.--_Addison's Works, by Bishop Hurd_. Vol. III. of this cheap and
neatly-printed edition (which forms a part of Bohn's Series of _British
Classics_) contains Addison's Papers from _The Spectator_.--_Lives of the
Queens of England_, by Agnes Strickland, Vol. V., contains the Biographies
of Anne of Denmark, Henrietta Maria, and Catherine of Braganza.--_Poetical
Works of John Dryden_, edited by Robert Bell, Vol. III. This is the
concluding volume of Dryden in Mr. Bell's _Annotated Edition of the English
Poets_.--_Cyclopaedia Bibliographica_, Part XX. The first division of this
most useful library companion is fast drawing to a close, the present Part
extending from Vance (William Ford) to Wilcocks (Thomas).--_The
Retrospective Review_, No. VII., contains some amusing articles on Ancient
Paris, Davies the Epigrammatist, the Turks in the Seventeenth Century,
Astrology, &c.
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