the traditional reputation of the popular king as a teacher and promoter of learning which led to this collection of folk saws being fathered on his memory. Some judicious notes, explanatory and literary, with a glossary, make this a complete edition of an old English classic. Arboretum,' 8 vols., 1854, 127. The coloured-plate books include Dr. Syntax,' 3 vols., royal 8vo, original cloth, 2. 10s.; and Nicholson's Wars occasioned by the French Revolution,' folio, calf, 1816, 37. 10s. The general portion comprises the Library Edition of Froude's England, 12 vols., cloth, 4. 15.; Darwin's Animals and Plants,' 17. 18.; Grote's 'Greece,' 12 vols., 17. 15s.; Hallam's Works, Cabinet Edition, 10 vols., 17. 10s.; and Lamb's Works, edited by Ainger, 6 vols., 1. 10s. Under Ornament we find Pugin's Glossary,' 4to, 1846, 37. 38. Hogg's Life of Shelley,' 2 vols., Moxon, 1858, is 1. 58.; and Wright's House of Hanover,' 2 vols., 1849, 17. 108. FOR the traveller who likes a volume weighty in matter, but not in avoirdupois, we recommend in "The World's Classics" (Frowde) Leigh Hunt's The Town; Great Expectations, with some new and able illustrations by Mr. Warwick Goble; and George Herbert's Poems, all great books in their way, beyond the reach of the cavilling Zoilus. In Mr. A. Russell Smith's Catalogue 58 is devoted the same series we have a specially slender issue intended for holiday-makers") of Aristophanes chiefly to Old English Literature. There are also in English Verse, by J. H. Frere; Horne's New Acts of Parliament of Henry VIII., Philip and Spirit of the Age, an interesting critical summary of Mary, and Charles II., and an extraordinarily large some immortal and some forgotten figures which is and clean copy of the Black Acts of 1566-8, 107. 10%. well worth reading; and Margaret Catchpole, which Almanacs range from 1633 to 1771. Americana inMr. Shorter describes in his Introduction as "the clude a series of twenty Proclamations of the Comclassic novel of Suffolk." It is a novel with de-monwealth of Massachusetts, 1812-65, in clean cided "longueurs"; still it has now an historic interest. Ox the 3rd inst. The Cornish and Devon Post celebrated its jubilee, and its special page gives pictures of Mr. Richard Robbins, now a nonagenarian, and his son Mr. Alfred F. Robbins. Both are well known for contributions to our columns. The former is probably the oldest contributor which N. & Q.' now possesses, and the latter's third son, Clifton, who belongs to the select ranks of scholar ship, is, we dare say, the youngest. Robbins is well known as the London correspondent of The Birmingham Daily Post. His father's reminiscences, some of which we print to-day (pp. 137-8), go back to the time when he worked as a boy with Mr. Thomas Eyre, the printer of The Reformer, a local paper which first appeared in 1832. 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