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Spain, down to the foundation of the Ottoman Empire, or

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

Messrs. Blackwood have published a continuation of
Mr. Finlay's valuable contribution to our knowledge of
Byzantine history; it is entitled History of the Byzantine
and Greek Empires, from MLVII to MCCCCLIII, by
George Finlay, and forms the second and concluding vo-
lume of the work. In this the author treats of the de-
cline and fall of the Byzantine government, and of the
Greek empires of Nicæa and Constantinople; and he has
in these, as in his preceding labours, made constant re-
ference to the original historians, in order to make the
work not only useful as a popular history, but also as an
index to scholars, who may be more familiar with classical
literature than with the Byzantine writers.

Mr. F. A. Neale never having been able, as he tells us

in his preface, to meet with a connected history of Is-

lamism, which uninterruptedly treated of the reigns of

the Saracen caliphs in the East, in North Africa, and

Spain, down to the foundation of the Ottoman Empire, or

following its growth upwards into the reign of Abdul-

Medjid, endeavoured to form a compilation from different

authors, treating at different dates of the separate do-

minions of Islamism in the east and west; and the result

is a couple of very readable volumes, under the title of

Islamism, its Rise and its Progress, or the Present and Past

Condition of the Turks. The publication is well-timed,

and no doubt Mr. Neale will receive the thanks of many

readers.

to be sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND

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BOOKS RECEIVED.-Diary and Letters of Madame

D'Arblay, Vol. VII., which concludes this pleasant gos-

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of "those good times when George the Third was
king."-Logic, or the Science of Inference, a Systematic

View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of have discovered that it has already been printed.

Inference in the various Departments of Human Know-

ledge, by Joseph Devey, is the new volume of Bohn's

Philological Library.-Poetical Works of William Cowper,

Vol. III., with Selections from the Works of Robert Lloyd,

Nathaniel Cotton, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin, and

William Hayley, the new volume of the Annotated Edition

of the English Poets, edited by Robert Bell. The selec-

tions which complete this volume give an interest as well

as novelty to this collection of our poets, and will, we

doubt not, be very generally approved. Schamyl, the

Sultan, Warrior, and Prophet of the Caucasus, the new

number of The Traveller's Library, is a judicious com-

pilation from the German of Wagner and Bodenstedt.-

Lives of the Queens of England, by Agnes Strickland,

Vol. VII., is occupied with a Biography of Mary, the

Consort of William III., who is treated by Miss Strickland

with great harshness.

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"N. & Q.," Vol. i., pp. 383. 419., and Vol. ii., p. 91.

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Antiquities, vol. iii. p. 384. Bohn's edition.

J. W. G. G. The article so kindly sent is in type, but is un-

avoidably postponed to make way for the three interesting docu-

ments which we have published this week.

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