, instead of joining with its fellows, put forth a separate
Report, the probability is, it would not only have involved such Society in
an expense far beyond what it would be justified in incurring, but the
Report itself would not have excited half the interest which will now be
created by a comparison of its papers with those of its associate
Societies; while, with the reduced expense, the benefit of a larger
circulation is secured. The volume is one highly creditable to the
Societies, and to the authors of the various communications which are to be
found in it.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson (191. Piccadilly) will be engaged on Monday and
two following days in the Sale of a Library rich in works on every branch
of what is now known as Folk Lore and Popular Antiquities, and which may
certainly, and with great propriety, be styled "a very curious collection."
The mere enumeration of the various subjects on the title-page of the
Catalogue, ranging, as they do, from Mesmerism and Magic, to Celestial
Influences, Phrenology, Physiognomy, &c., might serve for the Table of
Contents to a History of Human Weakness.

BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Neander's History of the Planting and Training of the
Christian Church by the Apostles, translated from the third edition of the
original German by J. E. Ryland_, is the fourth volume of the Standard
Library which Mr. Bohn has devoted to translations of the writings of
Neander; the first and second being his _Church History_, in two volumes,
and the third his _Life of Christ_.--_Cosmos, a Sketch of the Physical
Description of the Universe by Alexander Von Humboldt, translated from the
German by E. C. Otte_, vol. iii., is the new volume of Bohn's Scientific
Library, and completes his edition of the translation of the great work of
the Prussian philosopher.

CATALOGUES RECEIVED.--Adam Holden's (60. High Street, Exeter) Catalogue
Part XXXI. of Books in every Department of Literature; J. Wheldon's (4.
Paternoster Row) Catalogue Part III. for 1851, of a valuable Collection of
Topographical Books; J. Rowsell's (28. Great Queen Street) Catalogue No.
XLIII. of a select Collection of Second-hand Books.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE.

DIANA (ANTONINUS) COMPENDIUM RESOLUTIONEM MORALIUM. Antwerp.-Colon.
1634-57.

PASSIONAEL EFTE DAT LEVENT DER HEILIGEN. Folio. Basil, 1522.

CARTARI--LA ROSA D'ORO PONTIFICIA. 4to. Rome, 1681.

BROEMEL, M. C. H., FE