ng to the Clergy, being a Practical Guide to the
Clerical Profession on the Legal and Canonical Discharge of their
various Duties_, 8vo. The author of this useful work, which appears not
to have been seen by Lowndes, says, in his advertisement, "The works
which are already extant on Ecclesiastical Law, being either too diffuse
or too concise for ready reference and practical use, the compiler of
this volume has endeavored to remedy this defect by the publication of
the following compendium."

T.J.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

The Percy Society have just issued _A New and Mery Enterlude called the
Triall of Treasure_, from the edition printed at London by Thomas
Purfoote, 1567, edited by Mr. Halliwell. The other works issued by the
Society since May last (when the year's subscription became due) have
been _A Poem_ (satirical) _of The Times of Edward II_., edited by the
Rev. C. Hardwick, from a MS. at St. Peter's College, Cambridge, of which
a less perfect copy from an Edinburgh MS. was printed by Mr. Wright, in
the volume of _Political Songs_, edited by him for the Camden Society;
_Notices of Fugitive Tracts and Chap-Books, printed at Aldermary
Churchyard, Bow Churchyard, &c._ by Mr. Halliwell; _The Man in the
Moone, or The English Fortune Teller_, edited by the same gentleman,
from the unique copy printed in 1609, now in the Bodleian; and lastly,
_The Religious Poems of William de Shoreham, Vicar of Chart-Sutton in
Kent, in the Reign of Edward II_., edited by Mr. Wright, from a
contemporary manuscript.

It is doubtful whether Mr. Shaw's skill as an artist, fidelity as a
copyist, or taste in the selection of his subjects, entitle him to the
higher praise. We leave to those who are familiar with his _Dresses and
Decorations of the Middle Ages_, and other admirable productions, the
settlement of this point. He has just published the first number of a
new work, _The Decorative Arts of the Middle Ages_, the object of which
is to exhibit the peculiar features and general characteristics of
decorative art, from the Byzantine or early Christian period to the
decline of that termed the _Renaissance_. This beautiful work--for
beautiful it is--is extremely well timed, as it appears at a moment when
our manufacturers who desire to display their skill at the great
exhibition of 1851, must be most anxious to see "the principles by which
our ancestors controlled their genius