Monckton Milnes, Esq. M.P., on the Condition and unsafe State of Ancient
Parochial Registers in England and the Colonies_, to which we beg to
direct the attention of such of our friends as take an interest in this
important subject.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of 191. Piccadilly, will sell on Monday,
the 29th instant, and three following days, a selection from the
valuable library of the Rev. Dr. Maitland. Although only a selection
from the library of the learned historian of the Dark Ages, the
Catalogue exhibits, in addition to numerous Polyglot and other important
editions of the Scriptures, and the great collections of Baronius,
Mabillon, Dupin, Martene, and Durand, &c., a vast number of works of the
highest value in the departments of Theology and Ecclesiastical History.

We have received the following Catalogues:--Part III. for 1850 of J.
Russell Smith's (4. Old Compton Street) Catalogue of Books and
Autographs, chiefly Old and Curious. Part II. for 1850 of a Catalogue of
Choice, Useful, and Interesting Books, in fine condition, on sale by
Waller and Son (188. Fleet Street).

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BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES

WANTED TO PURCHASE.

(_In continuation of Lists in former Nos._)

SACRED SONGS, DUETS, AND TRIOS, Words by Thomas Moore; Music by
Stephenson and Moore. Power, Strand.