That portion if it, more particularly, which relates the Proceedings of
the Meetings of the Archaeological Institute, contains a great mass of
curious and valuable information; made the more available and
instructive by means of the admirable woodcuts by which it is
illustrated.
We have received several curious communications on the subject of Parish
Registers, with reference to the article on "Early Statistics," and the
"Registers of Chart, Kent," to which we shall endeavour to give early
insertion. We have also received a copy of _A Letter addressed to R.
Monckton Milnes, Esq. M.P., on the Condition and unsafe State of Ancient
Parochial Registers in England and the Colonies_, to which we beg to
direct the attention of such of our friends as take an interest in this
important subject.
Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of 191. Piccadilly, will sell on Monday,
the 29th instant, and three following days, a selection from the
valuable library of the Rev. Dr. Maitland. Although only a selection
from the library of the learned historian of the Dark Ages, the
Catalogue exhibits, in addition to numerous Polyglot and other important
editions of the Scriptures, and the great collections of Baronius,
Mabillon, Dupin, Martene, and Durand, &c., a vast number of works of the
highest value in the departments of Theology and Ecclesiastical History.
We have received the following Catalogues:--Part III. for 1850 of J.
Russell Smith's (4.
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