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and Antiquarian Intelligence, Historical Chronicle, and OBITUARY, including
Memoirs of Lord Rancliffe, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Leigh, Chief
Justice Doherty, Rev. Dr. Thackeray, John Jardine, Esq., Thomas Hodgson,
Esq., F.S.A., Newcastle, &c., &c. Price 2s. 6d.
"The Gentleman's Magazine has been revived with a degree of spirit and
talent which promises the best assurance of its former
popularity."--_Taunton Courier._
"The additional talent which the new year has brought to its
assistance, will give an impetus advantageous to the circulation of The
Gentleman's, and, high as it previously stood, will advance it still
more in the estimation of those who are enabled to appreciate its
worth."--_Poole Herald._
The Magazine for January, 1851. will contain a Portrait of the late Thomas
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CURIOUS BOOKS, MSS., SEALS, ANTIQUITIES, &c.
PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will Sell by Auction
at their Great Room, 191. Piccadilly, on Wednesday, Dec. 11, and two
following days, a Collection of Curious Books, mostly English, several
thousand Plays, rare, curious, satirical, and other Poetry, Historical
Pieces, Facetiae, some fine specimens of Early Typography, Books of Prints
and Emblems, MSS., Deeds, &c., relating to English Counties, Family Papers
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THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CONTROVERSY.--At the present crisis, when the
extraordinary aggression of Pope Pius IX. on the rights of the Church and
Sovereign of England renders a thorough acquaintance with the Roman
Catholic Controversy most essential, the Council of the PARKER SOCIETY are
desirous of calling public attention to the WORKS of the REFORMERS which
they have issued.
These are the writings of Archbishop Cranmer, two vols.; Bishop Ridley,
Latimer, two vols.; Coverdale, two vols.; Jewel, three vols. completed, the
fourth nearly ready; also those of Tyndale, three vols.; Becon, three
vols., &c.
The annual subscription to the Society is 1l., to be paid in advance, for
which each member receives four volumes. In the concluding volume of Bishop
Jewel's works will appear, among other treatises, his "View of a Seditious
Bull," being that
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