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As on former occasions, the compiler invites the co-operation of literary correspondents, and will be grateful to anyone who will correct an error or supply an omission.

AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

HINTS TO COLLECTORS OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF

WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.

HINTS TO COLLECTORS OF ORIGINAL EDITIONS OF THE WORKS OF

CHARLES DICKENS.

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST;

OR, A ROUGH OUTSIDE WITH A GENTLE HEART.

TAMERLANE,

First published at Boston in 1827, and now first republished from a unique copy of the original edition, with a preface by RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD.

JOHN LEECH, ARTIST AND HUMOURIST.

A Biographical Sketch by FRED. G. KITTON. New edition, revised. The only published biography of JOHN LEECH.

SULTAN STORK,

And other Stories and Sketches by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY , now first collected, to which is added the Bibliography of THACKERAY, revised and considerably enlarged.

SITHRON, THE STAR STRICKEN.

Translated from an ancient Arabic Manuscript, by SALEM BEN UZ?IR, of Bassora.

ESSAYS IN THE STUDY OF FOLK-SONGS.

THE HISTORY OF THE FORTY VEZIRS;

OR, THE STORY OF THE FORTY MORNS AND EVES.

Written in Turkish by SHEYKH-ZADA, and now done into English by E. J. W. GIBB, M.R.A.S.

THE BLOOD COVENANT:

A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture, by H. CLAY TRUMBULL, D.D.

"An admirable study of a primitive belief and custom. One of the utmost importance in considering the growth of civilization."

SERPENT-WORSHIP AND OTHER ESSAYS,

Contents:--Rivers of Life--Phallism in Ancient Religions--The Origin of Serpent-Worship--The Adamites--The Descendants of Cain--Sacred Prostitution--Marriage among Primitive Peoples--Marriage by Capture--Development of the Family--The Social Position of Woman as affected by "Civilisation"--Spiritism and Modern Spiritualism--Totems and Totemism--Man and the Ape.

PRIMITIVE SYMBOLISM

As illustrated in Phallic Worship; or, The Reproductive Principle, by the late HODDER M. WESTROPP. With an Introduction by MAJOR-GENERAL FORLONG, author of "Rivers of Life."

MYTHS, SCENES, AND WORTHIES OF SOMERSET.

The author has somewhat departed from her original intention of making a collection of the myths and legends of Somerset. Unwittingly fiction glided into fact, and the story developed into history, and it was found difficult, if not impossible, to define their respective limits. For instance, though Arthur is an impalpable and shadowy personage, while Alfred is a most real and substantial one, yet the mingling of truth and fable in the story of each--as connected with Somerset--is only one of degree; and even in later times, myth is so intertwined with the lives of St. Dunstan, of Sir John de Courcy, of Roger Bacon, &c., that, if one tries rudely to tear away the accretions of myth and fable, a maimed and distorted picture is all that is left.

Among the legends of Saints are some of rare beauty, full of earnest thought and quaint suggestiveness. It has been endeavoured to show that, instead of being, as they are generally and conveniently classed--with a charming simplicity--as the "lying inventions of the monks," they are in most cases but the loving exaggerations of a simple age, to which every unexplained wonder was a miracle.

Some of the articles may be thought to be of undue length; but St. Dunstan is a character so strangely misrepresented in most histories, that the author was anxious to prove incontestably his claim to be one of the worthiest of the worthies of Somerset; again, as to the unhappy Duke of Monmouth, though the story of his rebellion is of necessity taken chiefly from Macaulay, the story of his quasi-royal progress is little known, and Macaulay studiously omits any palliating or softening circumstance in the terrible record of the battle of Sedgmoor and the Bloody Assize.

HOW TO TRACE A PEDIGREE;

OR, THE SCIENCE OF HERALDRY EXPLAINED.

Introductory.--Science of Heraldry, Coats of Arms, Varieties of Arms, Partition Lines, Tinctures, Furs, Ordinaries, &c., &c.--Common Charges, Lions and other Beasts, Heraldic Monsters, &c., &c.--Miscellaneous Objects Alphabetically arranged.--Technical Terms used in Heraldry.--The Rules of Blazon.--The Marshalling of Arms, Hatchments, &c., &c.--Crests, Mottoes, Helmets, Mantlings, Supporters, and Coronets.--The Rules of Precedence.--Peers, Baronets, Knights, Esquires, Gentlemen.--Advice to Pedigree Hunters, How to Trace a Pedigree, Parochial Registers, Public Documents, Probate Court, Fees, &c., &c.--The College of Arms, Officers of Arms, Heraldic Records, Heraldic Fees, Grants of Arms, Change of Name.--Liveries, with some Remarks upon Cockades, and those who are entitled to use them.--General Remarks, Drawing and Illuminating, Taxes in respect of Arms.

POPE JOAN

THE REAL HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.

Founded on their own Manifestoes, and on Facts and Documents collected from the Writings of Initiated Members, by ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE, author of "The Mysteries of Magic: a Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi."

Influence of the Secret Societies.--Derivations of the name Rosicrucian.--On the State of Mystical Philosophy in Germany at the close of the Sixteenth Century.--The Prophecy of Paracelsus.--The Fama Fraternitatis of the Meritorious Order of the Rosy Cross.--The Confession of the Rosicrucian Fraternity.--The Chymical Marriage of Christian Rosencreutz.--The Connection of the Rosicrucian Claims with those of Alchemy and Magic.--On the Antiquity of the Rosicrucian Fraternity.--Theories as to the Authorship of the Rosicrucian Manifestoes.--Progress of Rosicrucianism in Germany.--Rosicrucian Apologists: Michael Maier, Robert Fludd, Thomas Vaughan, &c.--Rosicrucianism in France.--Connection between the Rosicrucians and Freemasons.--Modern Rosicrucian Societies, &c., &c.

In the present work every important and available fact has been carefully collected, and the manifestoes and other documents of the Fraternity are republished in revised versions. The Rosicrucians as represented by themselves are, therefore, offered to English readers for the first time in the literature of the subject. The task has been performed by a sympathetic but impartial writer, purged from the bias of any particular theory, and above all uncontaminated by the pretension to superior knowledge, which claimants have never been able to substantiate.

PHALLICISM:

Its connection with the Rosicrucians and the Gnostics, and its Foundation in Buddhism, by HARGRAVE JENNINGS, author of "The Rosicrucians."

THE DANCE OF DEATH

In Painting and in Print, by T. TINDALL WILDRIDGE. With Woodcuts.

"The origin of the Dance has been conjectured to have been one of the religious mysteries, moralities, or dramatic exhibitions which at the same time supplied a comedy and a homily. There certainly was an acted processional dance in which the players one by one were snatched away; Cervantes in 'Don Quixote' mentions it as the 'Cortes of Death.' ... The earliest painting of the Dance of Death is said to be that at Basil, though it is probable that many of which we have information are as old. The German and Swiss bridges, so often, too, the site of religious buildings, were decorated with the representation; an example is upon the Pont des Moulins leading into Lucerne, where is a fine Dance, restored within the last few years." The blocks illustrating this work are a series found in a northern printing office many years ago. They seem to be of considerable age, and are somewhat close copies of Holbein's designs.

WALFORD'S ANTIQUARIAN MAGAZINE AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW.

Edited by G. W. REDWAY, F.R.Hist.S.

CORRESPONDENCE.--The late Bishop Hannington's Ancestry.--A Reader of Curious Books.--Throwing the Dart in Cork Harbour.--The De la Poles.--The Family of John Hampden.--The "Olla Podrida" and T. Monro.--Life of Bertram Montfichet.--Magdalen College, Oxford.--Book Bound in a Murderer's Skin.--A Forgotten Society.--Latin Verses by Dr. Johnson.--"Merchet" and the "Jus Primae Noctis."--Hanna, Hanet, and Wallace.--Another Book Bound in a Murderer's Skin.--Humorous Portrait of Charles Dickens.--Beating Boys at Parish Boundaries.--Destruction of National Antiquities.

REVIEWS.--OBITUARY MEMOIRS.--MEETINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES.--NEWS AND NOTES.

JOURNAL OF THE BACON SOCIETY.

THE EAST ANGLIAN;

OR, NOTES AND QUERIES ON SUBJECTS CONNECTED WITH THE COUNTIES OF SUFFOLK, CAMBRIDGE, ESSEX, AND NORFOLK.

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