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f the well-known and probably unique collection, _The Faussett Museum_. Strange to say, that offer was declined: but, as a communication from the Society of Antiquaries strongly urging the propriety of a reconsideration of this decision--so that an opportunity which may never recur may not be lost--has been addressed to the trustees, we still hope that _the Faussett Museum_ will yet fill the empty cases at Great Russell Street, and form, as it is well calculated to do, the nucleus of a national collection of our own national antiquities. We understand Mr. Wylie has most liberally offered to present his valuable Fairford Collections to the Museum, if the Faussett Collection is secured for it. BOOKS RECEIVED.--_The Life and Works of William Cowper_, by Robert Southey, Vol. I. This, the first volume of a new edition, which will be comprised in eight instead of fifteen volumes--cost twenty-eight instead of seventy-five shillings, and yet contain additional plates and matter,--is the new issue of Bohn's _Standard Library_.--_The Laws of Artistic Copyright and their Defects_, by D. R. Blaine, Esq. A little volume well calculated to instruct artists, sculptors, engravers, printsellers, &c., so that they may clearly understand their rights, their remedies for the infringement of those rights, and the proper mode of transferring their property.--_The Attic Philosopher in Paris, being the Journal of a Happy Man_, forms No. LI. of Longman's _Traveller's Library_, and is a fit companion to the _Confessions of a Working Man_, by the same author, Emile Souvestre, published in the same series a few months since.--_Apuleius: Metamorphoses, or Golden Ass, and other Works._ A new translation, to which are added a metrical version of Cupid and Psyche, and Mrs. Tighe's Psyche, is the new volume of Bohn's _Classical Library_.--_Handbook to the Library of the British Museum, &c._, by Richard Sims. After the notice of this useful little volume taken by MR. BOLTON CORNEY in our last Number, we may content ourselves with expressing our hope that the trustees, whose desire it must be to facilitate in every way the use of the Museum library, will avail themselves of the earliest opportunity of marking their approval of this able attempt on the part of one of their officers--a junior though he be--to promote so important an object. * * * * * BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. Particulars of Price, &c. of
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