notorious, that no confidence whatever can
be placed in that volume (see this shown in detail in Mr. Hannah's edit. of
Poems by Wotton and Raleigh, pp. 61. 63.); nor have we any right to
distribute the two parts between different authors. There are at least
_four_ {414} old copies of the whole; two in MSS. which are referred to by
Mr. Hannah; the one in Pembroke's _Poems_; and the one in that Lansdowne
MS., where it is ascribed to William Browne. Brydges assigned it to Browne,
when he published his _Original Poems_ from that MS. at the Lee Priory
Press in 1815, p. 5. Upon the whole, there seems to be more direct evidence
for Browne than any other person.

R.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

_A History of the Articles of Religion: to which is added a Series of
Documents from_ A.D. _1536 to_ A.D. _1615; together with Illustrations from
Contemporary Sources_, by Charles Hardwick, M.A., is the title of an octavo
volume, in which the author seeks to supply a want long felt, especially by
students for Holy Orders; namely, a work which should show not the
_doctrine_ but the _history_ of the Articles. For, as he well observes,
while many have enriched our literature by expositions of the _doctrine_ of
the Articles, "no regular attempt has been made to illustrate the framing
of the Formulary itself, either by viewing it in connection with the
kindred publications of an earlier and a later date, or still more in its
relation to the period out of which it originally grew." This attempt Mr.
Hardwick has now made very successfully; and it is because his book is
historical and not polemical, that we feel called upon to notice it, and to
bear our testimony to its interest, and its value to that "large class of
readers who, anxious to be accurately informed upon the subject, are
precluded from consulting the voluminous collectors, such as Strype, Le
Plat, or Wilkins." Such readers will find Mr. Hardwick's volume a most
valuable handbook.

A practical illustration that "union is strength," is shown by a volume
which has just reached us, entitled, _Reports and Papers read at the
Meetings of the Architectural Societies of the Archdeaconry of Northampton,
the Counties of York and Lincoln, and of the Architectural and
Archaeological Societies of Bedfordshire and St. Alban's during the Year
_MDCCCL. _Presented gratuitously to the Members._ Had each of these
Societies