d portion of the valuable stock of Messrs. Payne
and Foss, including an excellent collection of Classics, Philology,
History, and Belles Lettres,--a recent purchase from the Library of a
well-known collector,--and about fifteen hundred volumes bound by the
most eminent binders. The sale of this portion will occupy nine days.

We have received the following catalogues:--John Russell Smith (4. Old
Compton Street), A Rider Catalogue of Second-hand Books; John Miller's
(43. Chandos Street) Catalogue, No. 7. for 1850, of Books Old and New;
William Heath's (29-1/2. Lincoln's Inn Fields) Select Catalogue of
Second-hand Books; and Bernard Quaritch's (16. Castle Street, Leicester
Square) Catalogue No. 17. of Books, comprising Architecture, Fine Arts,
Dialects, and Languages of Europe and Asia; and Cole's (15. Great
Turnstile) List No. XXVI. of very Cheap Second-hand Books.

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

WANTED TO PURCHASE.

(_In continuation of Lists in former Nos._)

ARCANA OF SCIENCE. 1829.
ANDREW STEWART'S LETTERS TO LORD MANSFIELD ON THE DOUGLAS CASE.
About 1793.
NEWMAN ON THE ARIANS.
LAWSON ON THE HEBREWS.
WESTPHALII MONUMENTA INEDITA RER. GERMANICARUM.
BIRCHERODIUS DE CORNIBUS ET CORNUTIS, 4to. Hafniae.

_Odd Volumes._

The first volume of THE WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ. London,
printed in the year 1772. No publisher named.

The third volume of THE WORKS OF SHAKSPEARE, in Ten Vols.
Edinburgh, printed by Marten and Wotherspoon. 1767.

Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_,
to be sent to Mr. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186.
Fleet Street.

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Notices to Correspondents.

CHAUCER'S TOMB. _Will_ J. W. P., _who has forwarded to us a contribution
to the Restoration of Chaucer's Monument, favour us with his name and
address?_

TITLE-PAGE AND INDEX TO VOLUME THE FIRST. _The preparation of the Index
with that fulness which can alone render it useful, has taken more time
than was anticipated. It will, however, be ready very shortly._

_Covers for the First Volume are preparing, and will be ready for
Subscribers with the Title-Page and Index._

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NEW WORKS IN GENERAL LITERATURE {48}

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I.

MEMOIRS OF THE DUKES OF URBINO (1440 to 16