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NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC.


J.J.S. informs us, with reference to a Note in No. 2. (p. 21.), "that an
account of Anglesey Abbey, in Cambridgeshire, is ready, and will be
published ere long."

Our attention has been directed to the Prospectus of a series of
"Cottage Prints from Sacred Subjects, intended chiefly for distribution
among the poor," which will be so produced as to form a set of
illustrations to the Bible; "although it is chiefly contemplated that
the Prints, protected by a small frame, should find their way into the
homes of the poor, and decorate their walls." The Editors, the Rev. H.
J. Rose and Rev. J.W. Burgon, well observe: "We shall in vain preach
reverence to the ear on Sundays, if the eyes may be familiarised with
what is irreverent for the six days following. On the other hand, we
shall surely be supplying ourselves with a powerful aid, if we may
direct the eye to forms of purity and beauty; and accustom our village
children, (who are now our hope,) from infancy, to look daily on what is
holy, and pure, and good."--Subscribers of one guinea in advance are
promised, in the course of the year, at least fifty such engravings as
the four which accompany the Prospectus.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson commenced on Thursday a nine days' Sale of
the "Curious, rare, and valuable Library of a well-known Collector,
deceased;" also another Collection, including--