A neat Case for holding a Year's Numbers (52) of _NOTES AND QUERIES_ is preparing, in consequence of the suggestion of several Subscribers, and will very soon be ready._ * * * * * Eight Days' Sale of highly interesting British Historical Portraits, forming the second portion of the very important and valuable Stock of Prints, the property of Messrs. W. and G. Smith, the long-established, well-known, and eminent print-sellers of Lisle-street, having retired from business. MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY and Co., auctioneers of literary property and works illustrative of the fine arts will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday, December 3. and seven following days, (Sunday excepted), at 1 precisely each day, the second portion of the important and valuable STOCK of PRINTS, the property of Messrs. W. and G. Smith; comprising one of the most numerous and interesting collections of British historical portaits ever offered for sale, and containing a vast number of extremely rare prints by the most eminent English engravers, generally in the finest condition, and a large number of fine proofs and prints after the works of Sir Joshua Reynolds. May be viewed four days prior to the sale, and catalogues had. * * * * * Recently published in 8 vols. 8 vo., price 4_l_. 16_s_. cloth A NEW EDITION of SHAKSPEARE'S WORKS, (comprising the Plays and Poems,) the Text formed from an entirely new Collation of the Old Editions; with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage. By J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq., F.S.A. Author of "The History of English Dramatic Poetry and the Stage," &c. &c. The Type of this edition has been expressly cast for it, and is the largest used for Shakespeare's Works for these Twenty Years. "The most perfect text with the fewest possible notes. Whoever wants to know what Shakespeare wrote must refer to Collier's edition."--_Monthly Magazine_. "Mr. Collier has brought to his task the aid of great research, discrimination, and intimate knowledge of the true mode of treating his subject."--_Age_. WHITTAKER and CO., Ave Maria Lane. * * * * * MILLER'S CATALOGUE of BOOKS; ready this day, will be found to contain an