When a work of such general reference as a Peerage, which is wanted upon
every library table, and in every club and reading-room "where men do
congregate;" which is, at the same time, from its nature, open to the
criticism of hundreds of critics,--when a work of this nature and of such
extent as _Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and
Baronetage of the British Empire_ bears on its title-page the brief but
expressive words "_Thirteenth Edition_," it has obviously long outlived the
time when any question can exist as to its merits. These have long been
recognised by those best able to appreciate them, namely, the noble
personages to whose history, and the history of whose descent and
collateral branches, it is especially devoted; and whose personal
communications have served to procure for the present work the merit by
which it seeks to distinguish itself from all similar productions, namely,
by its greater fullness of detail and its extreme accuracy.
The Rev. A. Hussey, M.A., has in the Press _Notes on the Churches in the
Counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book_.
Subscribers names are received by Mr. J. Russell Smith. {95}
Mr. M. A. Lower's translation of _The Chronicle of Battel Abbey, from the
Vow of its Foundation by the Conqueror in 1066 to the Year 1176_, will be
published in the course of the present month.
Messrs. Sotheby and Co. will sell, on Monday and Tuesday next, a very
valuable and important Collection of Classical and Historical Books, from
the Library of a Collector; and on Wednesday and two following Days, an
important portion of the valuable Library of the Right Hon. C. W. Williams
Wynn, including First and Second Folio Shakspeare, Caxton's _Golden
Legend_, and some valuable MSS., including one of the works of Robert
Rolle, the Hermit of Hampole, &c.
_Catalogues Received_.--William Brown's (46. High Holborn) Catalogue Part
LI. of Second-hand English and Foreign Books on Theology, Fine Arts, and
Miscellaneous Literature; J. Russell Smith's (4. Old Compton Street, Soho)
Catalogue of Books relating to Kent, Sussex, and Surrey; W. S. Lincoln's
(Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Sixty-fifth Catalogue of Cheap
Second-hand English Foreign and Classical Books.
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