Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851Various
History
Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851
Various
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Mr. Maccabe's Romance of the Dark Ages,
BERTHA.
"The book is able, learned, and instructive to a degree wholly unusual in
works of its class."--_Weekly Chronicle._
"We gladly recommend a work, the learning, purity, and interest of which
must please all kinds of reader."--_Morning Chronicle._
"The mere novel reader will value it for its exciting adventures, its
touching incidents, and its dramatic interest; while it will be acceptable
to the historical student for its vigorous grasp of historic character, and
to the antiquarian for its information relating to the Dark
Ages."--_Morning Post._
"It is treated with the learning of a scholar, and the grace of an
experienced writer."--_News of the World._
See also NOTES AND QUERIES, January 11th.
Also, Vols. I. and II. A CATHOLIC HISTORY of ENGLAND. By W.B. MACCABE, Esq.
"A work of great literary value."--_The Times._
T.C. NEWBY, 30. Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square.
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Now ready, fcap. 8vo., price 7s. 6d.
A THIRD SERIES OF PLAIN SERMONS, addressed to a Country Congregation. By
the late REV. EDWARD BLENCOWE, Curate of Teversal, Notts, and formerly
Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
ALSO, A NEW EDITION OF THE FIRST SERIES, AND A SECOND EDITION OF THE SECOND
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"Their style is simple; the sentences are not artfully constructed; and
there is an utter absence of all attempt at rhetoric. The language is plain
Saxon language, from which 'the men on the wall' can easily gather what it
most concerns them to know."--_Theologian._
Also, 2 vols. 12mo., sold separately, 8s. each,
SERMONS. By the REV. ALFRED GATTY, M.A., Vicar of Ecclesfield.
"Sermons of a high and solid character--earnest and
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"Plain and practical, but close and scholarly discourses."--_Spectator._
London: GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street.
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FAC-SIMILES.
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Now ready, in one handsome vol. 8vo., illustrated with 37 Plates and 192
Woodcuts, half morocco, 1l. 1s.
THE ROMAN WALL: An Historical, Topographical, and Descriptive Account of
the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus extending from the Tyne to the Solway,
deduced from repeated personal Surveys. By the REV. JOHN COLLINGWOOD BRUCE,
M.A.
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