The Camden Society has, after a long silence, just issued a volume, _The Camden Miscellany, Volume the Second_, which from the variety and interest of its contents, cannot but be acceptable to all the members. These contents are, I. _Account of the Expenses of John of Brabant, and Henry and Thomas of Lancaster, 1292-93._--II. _Household Account of the Princess Elizabeth, 1551-52._--III. _The Bequeste and Suite of a True-hearted Englishman, written by William Cholmeley, 1553._--IV. _Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell in March, 1627-28._--V. _Trelawny Papers._--VI. _Autobiography of William Taswell, D. D._ This, which is the first book for the year 1852-53, will be immediately followed by a volume of _Verney Papers_, editing by Mr. Bruce; and this probably by _The Domesday of St. Paul's_, editing by Archdeacon Hale, or _The Correspondence of Lady Brilliana Harley_, editing by the Rev. T. T. Lewis. Early in the ensuing Camden year, which commences on the 1st of May, two volumes of considerable interest may be looked for, namely, _The Roll of the Household Expenses of Richard Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, in the years 1289-90, with illustrations from other and coeval Documents_ by the Rev. John Webb; and _Regulæ Inclusarum, The Ancren Rewle, A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life, addressed to a Society of Anchorites by Simon of Ghent_, a work valuable for philology, for it is written in the semi-Saxon dialect of the thirteenth century, and curious for its illustration of ancient manners. It will be accompanied by a translation by the Rev. James Morton, the editor. _The Architectural, Archæological, and Historic Society for the County, City, and Neighbourhood of Chester_, has just published the Second Part of its Journal, in which objects of local interest are made available for much instructive information; and to accomplish which the conductors have, and as we think wisely, preferred a great number of apt illustrations, executed without any pretence to artistic skill, to a _few_ expensive and highly-finished engravings. Our Dutch neighbours seem to enjoy as much as ourselves the humour of Charles Dickens. Not only is _Bleak House_ regularly translated as it appears, but in a bookseller's circular which has just reached us, we see announced translations of the _Sketches by Boz_, and of a _Selection from Household Words_. There is much tact required in writing for children, and no small share of this is exhibited in a _History of France for Children_, which Viscount Cranborne has just compiled for the use of his nieces. The principal events are brought forward in succession, and related in a plain, unaffected style, well calculated for youthful readers.