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tament, which may pass through our hands.
NEW TESTAMENT. COVERDALE, 1538, 8vo.

The Title in red and black, within a splendid ar

chitectural compartment.
"The new testament both in Latin and English
after the vulgare texte: which is red in the churche.
Translated and corrected by Myles Couerdale:
and prynted in Paris. by Fraunces Regnault.
M.ccccc.xxxviii in Nouembre. Prynted for Ri-
chard Grafton and Edward whitchurch cytezens of
London. Cum gratia & priuilegio regis."
A dedication, " To the ryght honorable lorde
Cromwell:" beginning "I was neuer so wyllinge to

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laboure and trauayll for the edifying of my brethren,"
whole breadth and half the depth of the page
and ending "youre lordshippes humble and faithfull The Latin text is in Roman type, and occupies about
seruytoure. Miles Couerdale." 2 pages. An ad- one third of the page . . . . . the English is in Black
dress, "To the Reader." beginning "Thys trans-letter. It has marginal references, which are in La-
lation (most deare reader) haue I wyth a right good tin and Roman letter. The running titles are also
wyll set forth," and ending "To whom onely be in Latin, but printed in Gothic character. A full
prayse and glorye, thankes & domynion now and page contains 49 lines. The running title over the
3 ch. 1 Corinth. is printed in mistake "Ad Roma-
nos," and that over 1 Peter, 3 ch. "Ad Hebreos."
The signatures A to MM run in 8's, except the last,
which is four only.

ever. Amen.

A Calender

2 pages.

An Almanack for xvii yeares." beginning 1539...
together 8 pages,
the last being blank. The Text, Fol. i to cclxxiiii.
numbered in Gothic character
Table of
Epistles and Gospels after Salisbury use, 2 leaves
more, not numbered, the leaf which should be fol.
ccxlviii is also not numbered.

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At the beginning of the gospel by Matthew is a wood cut (apparently of S. Mark), occupying the

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Editio Princeps. De Clitiphont. et Leucipp. Amorib. Libri VIII.
Græce cum Longi pastoral. et Parthenio (ex editione Godfr. Jungermanni ?)
-Heidelberg, Commelin, 1601, 8vo. (nov. titul. ibid. 1606.)

II. Edidit Gr. et Lat. c. Not. Claud. Salmasius. Leyden. Heger, 1640.
12mo. An edition commonly considered the best, but inaccurately printed.
III. Varietate Lect. Notisque Salmasii, Carpzovii, Bergeri et suis illustravit
B. G. L. Boden.-Leipsic. Gleditsch. 1776. 8vo. An excellent edition.
IV. Textum recogn. illustr. etc. Ch. W. Mitscherlich. Græce, Lat.-Deux-
ponts. Treuttel et Würtz, 1792. 8vo. A useful edition.

V.

Cum Cruceii Versione. Lat. (Basle. 1554. 8vo.) Notis select Cl. Salmasii, aliorum, et suis edidit F. Jacobs.-Leipsic. Dyck. 1821. Vol. II. 8vo. The

best critical edition.

ACHMET OR ACHAMET. See ARTEMIDORUS.
ACTUARIUS JOANNES.

I. De Medic. Compositione, Latine, Jo. Ruellio Interprete.-Paris. 1539.
12mo.

II. De Methodo Medendi Libri VI. Latine, Corn. H. Mathesio Interpr.-
Venice. 1554. 4to.

III. 1. De Affect. et Actionibus Spiritus Animalis, item de Victu, Græce, ed.
Jac. Goupylus.-Paris. 1557. small 8vo. The first edition of this treatise,
and one of considerable excellence.

2. Id. Græce cum Var. Lect. cura J. F. Fischeri.-Leipsic. 1774. 8vo.

The best edition.

IV. 1. De Urinis Libri VII. Latine, per Ambrosium Leonem.-Venice. 1519. 4to.

2. Id. Ambr. Leone Nolano Interpr. cum aliis.-Basle. J. Cratander 1529. 8vo. An improved edition.

3. Id.-Utrecht, 1670. 8vo. The best edition.

V. Opera omnia, Latine, ed. C. H. Mathesius.-Lyons, J. Tornaes. 1556. vol.
III. 12mo. Also Paris, Bern. Turrisan. 1556. vol. II. (I.) 8vo.
ACUSILAUS. See PHERECYDES.

ADAGIA scil. Proverbia Græcorum, Gr. et Lat. cum Schol. Andr. Schotti.·
Antwerp, Plantin. 1612. 4to.

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ELIANUS CLAUDIUS.

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3. Gr. et Lat. cum Comment. Jac. Perizonii.-Leyden, Vivie, 1701. vol. II. 8vo. The commentary of this edition is very ample.

4. Gr. et Lat. cum Not. J. Kühnii, cura J. H. Lederlini.-Strasburg, 1713. 8vo. A critical and accurate edition, with excellent notes.

5. Gr. et Lat. cum Not. Var. rec. Abr. Gronovius.-Leyden, (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, and the Hague,) Luchtmans, 1731. vol. II. 4to. A splendid and ample edition, generally considered the best.

6. Var. Hist. et Fragmenta, Græce, cum Comment. Perizonii etc. cura C. J. Kuhn.-Leipsic, Schwickert, 1780. vol. II. 8vo. A manual, with an excellent index illustrative of the Greek style.

7. Græce ed. Diam. Coray cum Adnott. acc. Heraclid. Pont. et N. Damasceni fragg.-Paris. Didot, 1805. 8vo. An elegant edition, containing valuable critical and exegetical observations.

ELIANUS TACTICUS.

I.

II.

IV.

Ed. Pr. Tactica, Latine, per Theodo. Tesrsalon, cum Vegetio et aliis de
re milit. scriptt.-Rome, 1487. 4to.

III. De Militar. Ordinib. Instituendis Liber. Edid. Fr. Robortellus, Græce,
Ed. Pr. Græce, cum Thoma Magistro.-Paris. 1532. 8vo.
cum imagg. et pictur. ill.-Venice., Spinelli. 1552. 4to. A superior edi-
Tactica, scil. de Motionib. ac Præcept. Militar. ad Form. Acies necessar.
tion. A Latin version was issued by the same editor, in this year, in 4to.
Græce et Lat. ex edit. Sixti Arcerii.-Leyden. L. Elzevir, 1613. 4to.
An edition usually considered the best, illustrated with plates.
Ejusd. et Leonis Imp. Tactica, scil. de Instruendis Acieb. Gr. Lat. ; quo-
rum hic opera J. Meursii, ille ex S. Arcerii nova interpr. Lat. in lucem
exeunt.-Leyden. L. Elzevir, 1613. 4to. This edition is distinguished
as embracing the Tactica' of Leo, in connexion with those of Ælian.
ENEAS GAZÆUS.

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I. Ed. Pr. Orationes, in "Collect. Orator. Græc."-Venice, Aldus, 1513. fol. II. 1. In Ctesiphont. Orat. et Demosth. de Corona, Interpret. Lat. et vocum diffic. explicat. adj. P. Foulkes et J. Friend. Græce, Lat.-Oxford, Sheldon. N.B. 1696. 8vo. A correct and classical edition.

2. Oratio in Ctesiphontem, recens. E. F. Wunderlich.-Göttingen, Dieterich. 1810. 8vo. The best edition.

3. Esch. et Demosthenis Oratt. de Corona, cum Schol. partim inedit.
recens. Im. Bekker.-Halle, Schwetschke, 1815. 8vo. A critical
edition.

III. Opera Omnia, Græce, ad Codd. MSS. recogn. animadv. illustr. J. H.
Bremius.-Zurich, Liegler, 1823-1824. vol. II. in 8vo. The best critical

edition.

See also DEMOSTHENES.

I. Ed. Pr. Opera Omnia, Græce et Lat. cura Conr. Gesneri.-Zurich. 1556, SCHINES SOCRATICUS.

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editions and MSS. in the British Museum.

'Where saints did live and die,'

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Mareo Polo, who also bears testimony to Prester John. The fabulous parts of each also often concur. Marco Polo tells of the men with tails,-of Gog and Magog, of the tree of life, whose leaves are green Madagascar, where the wonderful bird is to be found above and white beneath,-and of the islands beyond deville seems also to have been acquainted with Hayton, for his account of the origin of the Tartar which can carry an elephant through the air. Manalso does his history of the Egyptian dynasty of monarchy perfectly agrees with that author's. So Sultans,-of the dethroning, by Mango Chan, of the Chalif of Baldak' (Bagdad), and his death, by starvation, in the midst of a sumptuous feast of of the province of Georgia, called Hanyson, three days' journey round, which is alle covered with precyous stones, ryche perles, and tresour,'-and derkness, and withouten ony brightnesse or light,' though men witen well that men dwellen therein, but thei know not what men.'

The Voiage and Travaile of Sir John be without its value, which narrates a visit to the great Chan,- remarkably agree with the story of Maundeville, Knt., which treateth of the land WAY to HIERUSALEM ; and of MARVAYLES of YNDE, with other ILANDS and COUNTRYES: reprinted from the Edition of by an intelligent traveller, of devout, chivalric feelA. D. 1725, from a MS. in the Cottonian Library, ings, nearly five hundred years ago, when religious and collated with seven MSS. and old printed in the breast of the European; when the nations of enthusiasm still glowed with its full summer heat Editions, with an Introduction, additional Notes, the West had scarcely dispersed those armies which and a Glossary, by J. O. Halliwell, Esq., F. S. A., had long hung like clouds over the rival fortunes of F. R. A. S., pp. xii. 325. London, 1839. With a frontispiece title, vignette, and 70 facsimiles of the East; when the thunders of the Vatican were the old and grotesque wood-cuts, from the earlier still rolling against the Paynim hosts, the usurpers (as they were called) of the holy Jerusalem and the sepulchres of the saints; when all Christendom dwelt with devout rapture on the recollection of visits to those spots where Heaven itself had deigned to hold immediate converse with earth. Every spot was, to a sincere believer like Mandeville, truly sesses the least value, the others being mere chapbooks, or abridgments of the worst kind, omitting the really valuable portion, retaining the miracles, steps of the Divine Presence. Around him on every hand, were the living footand altering the language. The All the editions are seemed still to lament over the saints whose marvery rocks so scarce as to be found only in some few Public tyrdom they had witnessed. Here were the infant fore, been often contemplated, but from various Libraries; the publication of a new one has, there-scenes of the human race, the dwelling place of causes, a century has elapsed between the appearance of that of 1725 and the one which has given rise to this notice.

Ir is somewhat remarkable that these Travailes do not exist in any of the Collections except that of Hakluyt, where the Latin Version only is given. Of the printed English text, only one edition pos

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Much, however, rested on the single and unsup-
primæval innocence, the abodes of the patriarchs, although, for a long time, they might have ranked
ported authority of Mandeville, which later discove-
the prophets, and the kings of Israel. The whole with Marco Polo's account of the stones used for
ries and inquiries have abundantly confirmed;
face of the country; the wild desert, with its green
spots thinly scattered, like islands for the
fuel. He notices the cultivation of pepper,-the
of the weary traveller'; the Dead Sea; the sacred burning of widows on the funeral piles of their hus-
plains of Egypt; the Nile; the rivers of Paradise ;
the wild romantic mode of life of the tribes that the Chinese predilection for small feet,-the va
bands,-the trees which bear wool, of which clothing
scoured over the face of the country; all combined
is made, the carrier pigeons,—the gymnosophists,
to awaken associations of the deepest and most riety, &c. of diamonds,-the artificial egg-hatching
reverential order. The voice which echoes to us
from such scenes as these, viewed with the feel- and other astronomical appearances, from which he
in Egypt, the balsam trade,-the south pole stars,
ings which agitated the bosom of a traveller like argues for the spherical form of the earth,-the cro-
Mandeville, is calculated even yet to awaken some
of the most powerful emotions of the heart; and snake, and many other singular productions of nature.
codile, the hippopotamus,-the giraffe,-the rattle-
make us cease to wonder that we sometimes' find He describes, with spirit and discernment, the man-
the imagination getting the better of the under-ners of the Chan's court; of a very early discovery
standing.
of the use of an unconvertible paper currency, which
enabled him to dispose of his bullion for other pur-
poses. The literature of the middle ages has scarcely
a more entertaining and interesting subject; and to
an Englishman it is doubly valuable, as establishing
the title of his country to claim as its own, the first
example of the liberal and independent gentleman
travelling over the world in the disinterested pursuit
of knowledge; unsullied in his reputation; honoured
and respected wherever he went for his talents and
faithful panegyric inscribed on his tomb)
personal accomplishments; and (in the words of the

'Moribus, ingenio, candore et sanguine clarus.'"

"Unfortunately for the curious inquirer into the real state of geographical and historical knowledge during the middle ages, comparatively little remains of the works of the men, thus, as it were, raised up by the hand of Providence to rekindle and transmit the lamp of ancient learning. Of many, we only know, that such things were; and most of those which have survived, exist only in scattered portions, in the form of extracts and abridgments. The few accounts of the wanderings of travellers which appeared during the early periods of European literature, partake, of course, very strongly of the motives which incited these undertakings; and are always strongly tinctured by the peculiar cir- The excessive popularity of our traveller was not cumstances of the artificial state of society under fated to be of long duration. Reason, ere long, aswhich they were accomplished and recorded. The serted her empire. Theology became too pure to spirit which animated the breasts of most, was one tolerate the admixture of Christian and Pagan wonof ardent religious feeling, partial, bigoted, and self-ders, classic authorities began to be consulted and sufficient. The traveller set out as a pilgrim, a compared with modern researches. Men sought, in merchant, or an adventurer, with little or no pre- the works of travellers, for geographic and scientific vious preparation, without observation or know- information, not for the rehearsal of fables, to which ledge, either of the earth, or of those who were they had learnt to attach the degree of consideration upon the face of it, ready in every thing to hear which they deserved; and when so great a proportion and see wonders, and to record the marvellous re- of a work like this appeared to be founded on a creports of others, where the subject did not fall within dulous echo of what was now acknowledged falsehis own inspection. He pretended to none of the hood, a general cry of wilful fraud was raised qualifications which would facilitate his inquiries, against our author and his contemporaries of the enable him to judge correctly, or describe with same stamp. The accusation was, in a great meafidelity. His mind was, at the outset of his journey, sure, unjust, and founded on a total misconception full of romantic tales, and idle fables, which he had of the principles and motives of the writer. Making never learned to distinguish from historic truth, and his book rather a progressive description of the lands he came back with magnified impressions of all he through which he passed, than a narrative of personal saw, and credulous belief of all he was told. Thus experiences. He adds, from the accounts of others, provided, he compiled his narrative from recollec- as he expressly declares in the beginning of his book, tion, for the amusement and instruction of those the current stories then received for truth about each who relished only miraculous legends, and would country, as explanatory and illustrative of his subhave been impatient of the obtrusion of the unin- ject; and to most of these tales he doubtless gave teresting details of statistical observation, or scien- implicit credence: but what is not of the marvellous tific views of man or nature. Defective as they may cast, what he himself saw and tells in the straight-perty, have been recently reported :be, these publications at all events excited curiosity, forward course of his narrative, he generally describes if they could not gratify rational inquiry. Traveller accurately and judiciously his authority is then upon traveller, in rapid succession, visited foreign weighty, and his testimony true. climes; commercial advantages were noticed, and the Holy Land, for instance, is minutely correct, and the spirit of enterprize which they aroused, created confirmed by the report of Broccardus, who preceded a demand for similar information. Of all these him, and by other contemporary travellers. Many travellers, Mandeville is by far the most likely to instances might be produced of striking coincidences enjoy permanent reputation, at least with English between Mandeville and the accounts of other writers readers, when we consider that his language is of the age; and this confirms his assertion, that he exceedingly curious, as illustrating the progress of consulted their works in the composition of his own the English tongue in, as is supposed, its earliest book. Marco Polo had gone over much of the same The position he occupies is honour-country nearly half a century before. His narrative able throughout, both to himself and to his country, of what he saw of manners and customs, as well as for he every where maintains the character of a of his personal adventures, is simple, and bears the gentleman, a gallant soldier, and devout but candid stamp of truth. Christian, journeying in upright intention, and comMandeville's account of the old man who made a plete independence, whither he listeth,' to gratify which, by all sorts of enticements, he sought to se'Paradys' on a mountain, in his curiosity and thirst for information. Mande- duce strangers into serving his purposes of secret ville's book is, in several points of view, a peculiarly assassination,-of the tomb of St. Thomas,-of the interesting work. In the first place, no book can general customs of the Tartars,-and the court of the 56, Chancery Lane.]

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Retros. Rev. Ancestors spoke, four hundred Years ago which is "The Language of this History is such as our a curiosity, will compensate the Reader for the Solecisms & uncouth Expressions, he will meet with. Before the Art of Printing was found out, there was no settled Method of Spelling: therefore the same word here is often spelt different ways; and that even in the same Page; as, Heved, Heed, Hed, Hede; Awtier, Awtere, Awteer, Awtiere, etc."

The following cases, connected with literary pro

INJUNCTION.
piracy.
"Extracts made for the purpose of criticism, not

Bell v. Whitehead.-Decided by the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR, Jan. 31st, 1839.

alleged infringement of copyright before trial at law,
The Court will refuse to restrain by injunction,
where the conduct of the plaintiffs has been calcu-
lated to induce the defendants to believe that their
proceedings would not be objected to by the plaintiffs.
Saunders v. Smith.-Decided by the LORD CHAN-
CELLOR.-3 Mylne and Craig, 711.

Where there is any doubt as to the exclusive legal
title of a party claiming an injunction in aid of that
without giving an opportunity of trying the legal
legal title, the Court will not exercise its jurisdiction
title by proceedings at law.

CHANCELLOR.-3 Mylne and Craig, 737.
Bramwell v. Halcomb.-Decided by the LORD

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Contains some furnished by Porson, Villoison, &c. ANDERSON'S POETICAL WORKS, including several ballads in the Cumberland Dialect, with Life, and Essay on the Character, Manners, and Customs of the Peasantry of Cumberland, by Sanderson. 2 vols. 12mo. 38. pub. 12s. Carlisle, 1820

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1816 A fit companion to the author's celebrated and eloquent Life of Nelson.

REYNOLDS' (SIR JOSHUA) DISCOURSES
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II. Gordon's (of Buthlaw) Dissertation concerning
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III. Waddel's (Andrew) Remarks on Innes's Cri-
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IV. Cunningham's Essay upon the Inscription on
Macduff's Crosse in Fyfe.

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1832

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