of_ BETA _in No. 5, entitled "Prison Discipline and Execution
of Justice," illustrate the manners and customs of the olden times far
better than a whole volume of dissertations; and we gladly adopt his
suggestion of inviting similar communications._

W.--_We are happy to be enabled to inform our Correspondent that the
Index to the Quarterly Review,_ Vols. LX. to LXXX. _is to be published
in February._

W.H.--_The transcript kindly forwarded appears to be part of a copy of
one of the Anonymous MS. Journals used by Sir Simonds D'Ewes in the
compilation of his_ Journals of all the Parliaments of Elizabeth. Lond.
Folio. 1682. _It is all substantially in D'Ewes, and generally speaking
it is there verbatim._

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unavoidably postponed until our next Number._

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Preparing for Publication, handsomely printed in 8vo.

A SERIES OF EDITIONS OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS,

To be issued under the general title of

BIBLIOTHECA CLASSICA

Edited by various hands, under the direction of GEORGE LONG, Esq., M.A.,
late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Classical Lecturer of
Brighton College; and the Rev. ARTHUR JOHN MACLEANE, M.A., Trinity
College, Cambridge, and Principal of Brighton College.

Early in the ensuing year will be commenced a Series of the Greek and
Roman Authors, carefully edited with English Notes, on a uniform plan.
The series will be especially adapted to the wants of students in the
higher forms of public schools and at the universities, and will
embrace, in the first instance, those works which are usually read in
the course of a classical education.

The works will be edited by various hands; and, to secure uniformity and
consistency in execution, the series will be under the united management
of Mr. Long and Mr. Macleane.

The first volume will be ready early in 1850. The subsequent volumes
will be published at intervals, as regularly as may be found
practicable, at the rate of four or five volumes in the year.

The following works are undertaken by the gentlemen whose names are set
opposite:--

HOMER: Illiad, - Rev. Benjamin Hall Kennedy. D.D.,
Odyssey late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge;