Lately published, 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 872, cloth, £1. 1s. THE RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW. CRITICISMS UPON, ANALYSIS OF, AND EXTRACTS FROM CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 1. Mrs. Behn's Dramatic Writings. 1724. 2. Bishop Berkeley and others on Tar Water. 1744. 3. French Pictures of the English in the last Century. 1764. 4. Population and Emigration in the 17th Century. 1624. 5. Increase Mather's Remarkable Providences. 1684. 6. The Travels and Observations of Boullaye-le-Gouz. 1657. 7. The First Edition of Shakespeare. 1623. 8. Pyrrhonism of Joseph Glanvill. 1665. 9. Old Notions on Heraldry-Ferne's Blazon of Gentrie. 1586. 10. Russia in the earlier part of the Sixteenth Century. 1556. 11. Ancient English Ballad Poetry. 1794. 12. National Characteristics in the Sixteenth Century. 1542. 13. The Scottish Colony of Darien, 1698-1700. 14. Political Satires under George III. 1795. 15. Popular Satires of Pierre Gringore. 16. The Works of Henry Peacham. 1642-61-69. 17. James Gillray's Caricatures. 18. Agriculture under Henry the Eighth. 19. Early Scottish History, and its Exponents. 1729. 20. Satires and Declamations of Thomas Nash. 21. The Tartars in China. 1654-1723. 1592-1613. 22. The Duchess of Newcastle and her Works. 1656. 23. Local Nomenclature. 1733. 24. English Music and Madrigals. 1729. 25. Family History. 1782. 26. Old Notions on Diet. 1620. 27. Anecdota Literaria : Extracts from the Diary of John Richards, Esq., of Warmwell, in Dorsetshire. 1697-1702.-Household Inventory of the Fifteenth Century.Our Old Public Libraries.-Religious Fragment in Anglo-Saxon, with a Translation.-The Order of Shooting with the Crossbow; a Poem of the Sixteenth Century.-Poem, supposed to be in the Lancashire Dialect of the Fourteenth Century.-A Burlesque Bill of Fare.-Scraps, English and Latin, from a MS. of the Fourteenth Century. THE RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 9. Drayton's Polyolbion. 1613. 10. William Penn and the Quakers-"No Cross, No Crown." 11. The first County Historian. 1576. 12. The Philosophy of the Table under Charles I. 1633. 13. Russia in the time of Peter the Great. 1671-1758. 14. Leland-Thomas Hearne-Anthony à Wood, &c. 1722. 15. The Decay of Good Manners. 1669-1676. 16. Stephen's Essays and Characters-Law and Lawyers. 1615. 17. Historic Memorials of Ancient Paris. 1640. 18. John Davies the Epigrammatist. 1611. 19. The Emperor Sigismund at Windsor, A.D. 1416. 20. The Turks in the Seventeenth Century. 21. Controversial Writers on Astrology. 1603-1687. 23. Travellers in Scandinavia. 1777-1814. 24. Collections of old French popular Literature. 1648-1678. 25. Foreign Materials for Scottish History. 1513-1547. 26. Shakespeare's Jest Book. 1567. 27. Travels of Sir Thomas Herbert. 1638. 28. Waterhous and Fox on the Utility of Learning in the Church. 29. English Almanacs under James I. 1615. 30. Memoirs of Psalmanazar-Dr. Johnson. Pepys on the Disposition of his Library.-Legendary Poems of the 15th Century. The Child of Bristow: Metrical Legends of the 15th Century. -Regulations of the Stews in Southwark.-Proverbs.-Exhortation to the Crusade.-Fragment of Burlesque.-English Manuscripts in the |