ve and
interesting to all classes of readers.

Every Number is illustrated by several Plates and Vignettes.

Seven Numbers of the new undertaking are before the public, and present
a fair example of what the work will henceforth be.

The following important subjects have been treated of in some of the
recent articles:

History of the first appearance of the Gypsies in Europe.
Curious Deductions from the History of our most common English
Words, as illustrative of the Social Conditions of our Anglo-Saxon
and Anglo-Norman forefathers.
Recovery of the long lost Accusation of High Treason made by
Bishop Bonner against Sir Thomas Wyatt the poet.
Unpublished Letters of Archbishop Land, illustrative of the
Condition of England in 1640.
Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Letters of Logan of Restalrig,
on which depends the Historical Question of the reality of the
Gowrie Conspiracy.
Alleged Confession of Sir Walter Raleigh of his intention to
retrieve his fortune by Piracy.
Three Papers containing New Facts relating to the Life and
Writings of Sir Philip Sidney
The Authorship of the fabricated English Mercurie, 1588, long
esteemed to be the earliest English Newspaper.
Chronicle of Queen Jane.
The Maids of Taunton--Mr. Macaulay and William Penn.
The Banquet of the Dead--Funeral of Francis I.
Two Papers on Windsor Castle in the time of Queen Elizabeth,
with illustrative Plates.
Documents relating to the Execution of James Duke of Monmouth.
Account of the Funeral of Amy Robsart.
The Price paid to Charles II. for Dunkirk.
Expenses of the Commissioners at the Treaty of Uxbridge.
Unpublished Letters of Dr. Johnson, and of the Man of Ross;
and Letters of Pope and Lady Wortley Montague.
Notices of the Society of Gregorians alluded to by Pope.
Who wrote Shakspeare's Henry VIII.?
Inaccuracy of the Common Division into Acts of King Lear, Much
Ado About Nothing, and Twelfth Night.
The Christian Iconography and Legendary Art of the Middle
Ages; with especial regard to the Nimbus and Representations
of the Divinity; with many illustrations.
Facts for a New Biographia Britannica, consisting of unpublished
Documents relating to John Locke, Anne Duchess of Albemarle,
Nat. Lee, Captain Douglas, Sir S. Morland, Dr.
Harvey, Dr. A. Johnstone, Betterton, Rowe, Arbuthnot, Dennis,
and Gilbert West.
Unknown Poem by Drayton.
Minutes of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Memoirs of Jaques L. S. Vincent, a celebra