Notes and Queries, Number 40, August 3, 1850 by Various
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Mediæval Literature of Spain.
Sávitri, an Historical Poem from the Sanscrit. Injustice of Southey to Mrs. Barbauld. The Lives of Dr. Chalmers, Southey, Chantrey, Mahomet, Tasso, Ochlenschläger, Plumer Ward, and Dr. A. Combe. The Report of the Commissioners on the British Museum and the present state of the Library Catalogue. On Prisons and Prison Discipline. On the Copyright of Foreigners and Translators. On the Primeval Antiquities of Denmark; with illustrations. On the Discovery of a singular Roman Temple at the source of the Seine. History of Pottery; with engravings. Villa and Tomb of a Female Gallo-Roman Artist. Full Reviews of Lord Campbell's Chief Justices; Boutell's Christian Monuments in England, with illustrations; Green's Lives of the Princesses; the Historical Memoirs of Cardinal Pacca; Inkersley's Romanesque and Pointed Architecture in France; Cutt's Monumental Slabs and Crosses, with illustrations; Garbett's Principles of Design in Architecture; Merivale's History of the Romans; Col. Mure's Language and Literature of Greece; Recollections of Lord Cloncurry; Evelyn's Diary; Townsend's State Trials; and shorter Reviews of many other important books. Every Number contains Notes of the Month, or comments upon all passing literary events; Reports of Archaeological Societies; and Historical Chronicle. The well-known Obituary includes, in the last seven numbers, Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge; the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Peel; the Earls of Carnarvon, Macclesfield, and Roscommon; |
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