(Bath, 1806), mentioned by your correspondent, but
which is not very scarce, is the only one published. I have the
continuation in the Doctor's _Autograph_, which is exceedingly entertaining
and curious, and full of anecdotes of his contemporaries. It is closely
written in two 8vo. volumes, and comprises 554 pages, and appears to have
been finally revised for publication. Why it never appeared I do not know.
He was a very extraordinary and ingenious man, and wrote upon everything,
from farriery to carving. With life in all its varieties he was perfectly
acquainted, and had personally known almost every eminent man of his day.
He had experienced every variety of fortune, but seems to have died in very
reduced circumstances. The _Sententiae Variorum_ referred to by your
correspondent is, I presume, what was published under the title of--

"Detached Philosophic Thoughts of near 300 of the best Writers, Ancient
and Modern, on Man, Life, Death, and Immortality, systematically
arranged under the Authors' Names." 2 vols. 12mo. 1810.

JAS. CROSSLEY.

Manchester, Jan. 25. 1851.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

Dr. Latham seems to have adopted as his literary motto the dictum of the
poet,

"The proper study of mankind is man."

We have recently had occasion to call the attention of our readers to his
learned and interesting volume entitled _The English Language_,--a work
which affords proof how deeply he has studied that remarkable
characteristic of our race, which Goldsmith wittily described as being
"given to man to conceal his thoughts." From the language to _The Natural
History of the Varieties of Man_, the transition is an easy one. The same
preliminary studies lead to a mastery of both divisions of this one great
subject: and having so lately seen how successfully Dr. Latham had pursued
his researches into the languages of the earth, we were quite prepared to
find, as we have done, the same learning, acumen, and philosophical spirit
of investigation leading to the same satisfactory results in this kindred,
but new field of inquiry. In paying a well-deserved tribute to his
predecessor, Dr. Prichard, whom he describes as "a physiologist among
physiologists, and a scholar among scholars,"--and his work as one "which,
by combining the historical, the philological, and the anatomical methods,
should command the attention of the naturalis