h he has
added, explanatory of Mr. Moore's acquaintance and correspondence with him,
Mr. Croker convicts Moore, by passages from his own letters, of writing
very fulsomely _to_ Mr. Croker, at the same time that he was writing very
sneeringly _of_ him.

A three days' sale of very fine books, from the library of a collector, was
concluded on Wednesday the 22nd ult. by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, at
their house in Wellington Street. The following prices of some of the more
rare and curious lots exhibit a high state of bibliographical prosperity,
notwithstanding the gloomy aspect of these critical times:--Lot 23,
Biographie Universelle, fine paper, 52 vols., 29l.; lot 82, Donne's Poems,
a fine large copy, 7l. 10s.; lot 90, Drummond of Hawthornden's Poems, 6l.;
lot 137, Book of Christian Prayers, known as Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book,
10l.; lot 53, a fine copy of Coryat's Crudities, 10l. 15s.; lot 184,
Breydenbach, Sanctarum Peregrinationum in Montem Syon, first edition, 15l.
15s.; lot 190, the Book of Fayttes of Armes and Chyvalry, by Caxton, with
two leaves in fac-simile, 77l.; lot 192, Chaucer's Works, the edition of
1542, 10l. 5s.; lot 200, Dugdale's Warwickshire, 13l. 10s.; lot 293, a
gorgeous Oriental Manuscript from the Palace of Tippoo Saib, enriched with
157 large paintings, full of subject, 112l.; lot 240, Horae Virginis
Mariae, a charming Flemish Manuscript, with 12 exquisite illuminations of a
high class, 100l.; lot 229, Milton's Minor Poems, first edition, 6l. 6s.;
lot 315, Navarre Nouvelles, fine paper, 5l. 5s.; lot 326, Fenton's Certaine
Tragicall Discourses, first edition, 11l.; lot 330, Gascoigne's
Pleasauntest Workes, fine copy, 14l.; lot 344, Horae Virginis Mariae,
beautifully printed upon vellum, by Kerver, 26l.; lot 347, Latimer's
Sermons, Daye, 1571, 14l.; lot 364, Milton's Comus, first edition, 10l.
10s.; lot 365, Milton's Paradise Lost, first edition, 12l. 17s. 6d.; lot
376, The Shah Nameh, a fine Persian manuscript, 10l. 12s. 6d.; lot 379,
Froissart Chroniques, first edition, 22l. 15s.; lot 381, a fine copy of
Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, five vols., 69l.; lot 390, the original
edition of Holinshed's Chronicles, 16l. 10s.; lot 401, Lancelot du Lac,
Chevalier de la Table Ronde, Petit, 1533, 16l.; lot 406, the original
edition of Laud's Book of Common Prayer, 12l. 15s.; lot 412, Meliadus de
Leonnoys, a romance of the round table, 11l.; lot 417, a superb copy of
Montfaucon's Works, with the La Monar