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ee for the _precise_ locality of the Isle of Dogs, and to have been satisfied with the answer "Between London Bridge and Gravesend," may, if inclined to pursue his inquiries, find its history told most fully and most agreeably in the little volume now before us. In our Number for the 21st of May last, we called attention to, and spoke in terms of fitting approbation of, the First Part of _The English Bible_; containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorised version; newly divided into paragraphs, with concise Introductions to the several Books, and with Maps and Notes illustrative of the Chronology, History, and Geography of the Holy Scriptures; containing also the most remarkable variations of the Ancient Versions, and the chief results of Modern Criticism. Part II., comprising _Exodus_ and _Leviticus_, is now before us, and exhibits the same merits as its predecessor. Mr. Miller, of Chandos Street, who during the past year added to the value of the Monthly Catalogues by the addition to each of them of several pages of literary and bibliographical miscellanies, has just collected these into a little volume, under the title of _Fly Leaves, or Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical, and Miscellaneous_, which may find a fitting place beside Davis's _Olio_, and other works of that class. We regret to learn, as we do from the _Literary Gazette_ of Saturday last, that the Trustees of the British Museum, in defiance of the earnest recommendation of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Archaeological Institute, and with a total disregard of the feelings and opinions of those best qualified to advise them upon the subject, have declined to purchase the Faussett Collection of Early Antiquities, and consequently will lose the Fairford Collection offered to them as a free gift by Mr. Wylie: so that the enlightened foreigner, who visits this great national establishment, and admiring its noble collections of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Assyrian antiquities, asks, "but where are your own national antiquities?" must still be answered, "We have not got one!" They certainly do manage these things better in France and Denmark. Our readers, we have no doubt, shared the regret with which we read the advertisement in our columns last week from the Rev. Dr. Hincks, who, from the want of encouragement, and in the face of peculiarly adverse circumstances, is compelled to withdraw from the field of Assyrian disc
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