is this their only claim; for the earliest artists of the Middle Ages were monks of the Benedictine Order.  “As architects, as glass painters, as mosaic workers, as carvers in wood and metal, they were the precursors of all that has since been achieved in Christian Art:  and if so few of these admirable and gifted men are known to us individually and by name, it is because they worked for the honour of God and their community, not for profit, nor for reputation.”  The merits of Mrs. Jameson’s first series were universally acknowledged.  The present volume may claim as high a meed of praise.  If possible, it exceeds its predecessors in literary interest, and in the beauty of the etchings and woodcuts which accompany it.  As a handbook to the traveller who wanders through the treasuries of Art, it will be indispensable; while to those who are destined not to leave their homes it will be invaluable, for the light it throws upon the social condition of Europe in those ages in which the monastic orders had their origin.  It is a volume highly suggestive both of Notes and Queries, and in such forms we shall take occasion to return to it.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson (191.  Piccadilly) will commence, on Monday next, a four-days sale of the {223} library of the late Rev. Dr. Johnson, Rector of Perranuthnoe, consisting of a good collection of theological and miscellaneous books.

We have received the following Catalogues:—­John Leslie’s (58.  Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn) Catalogue of English and Foreign Theology, including several works of very rare occurrence, and forming the largest portion of the valuable library of the Rev. W. Maskell, M.A.; C. Gancia’s (73.  King’s Road, Brighton,) Second Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Foreign Books, MSS., Books printed upon vellum, many of them great rarities, and seldom to be met with; J. Miller’s (43.  Chandos Street, Trafalgar Square,) Catalogue No.  X. for 1850 of Books Old and New.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

WANTED TO PURCHASE.

DAVIS, T., SOME INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING PLANTS, ANIMALS, 8vo., London, 1798.

THOMPSON’S REPORT ON THE FAUNA OF IRELAND, 8vo.  London, 1844.

FORBES ON THE MOLLUSCA AND RADIATA OF THE AEGEAN SEA. 1844.

WHITECHURCH’S HISPANIOLA, (A POEM), 12mo.  London, 1805.

RICKMAN’S ODE ON THE BLACKS, 4to.  London, 1804.

REEVES’ HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LAW.

COSTARD’S HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY, 4to.  London, 1767.

MUNCHHAUSEN’S TRAVELS, PLATES BY RIEPENHAUSEN, 1786.

A CATALOGUE OF THE ROYAL AND NOBLE AUTHORS OF ENGLAND, 2 vols. 
Edinburgh, 1792.

ODD VOLUMES

JOHNSON’S LIVES OF THE POETS, 4 vols. 8vo.  London, Longman, 1794.  Vol. 
IV.

GIBBON’S DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, 11 vols. sm. 12mo.  Tegg, 1827.  Vol.  I.