When a work of such general reference as a Peerage, which is wanted upon every library table, and in every club and reading-room "where men do congregate;" which is, at the same time, from its nature, open to the criticism of hundreds of critics,--when a work of this nature and of such extent as _Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire_ bears on its title-page the brief but expressive words "_Thirteenth Edition_," it has obviously long outlived the time when any question can exist as to its merits. These have long been recognised by those best able to appreciate them, namely, the noble personages to whose history, and the history of whose descent and collateral branches, it is especially devoted; and whose personal communications have served to procure for the present work the merit by which it seeks to distinguish itself from all similar productions, namely, by its greater fullness of detail and its extreme accuracy. The Rev. A. Hussey, M.A., has in the Press _Notes on the Churches in the Counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey mentioned in Domesday Book_. Subscribers names are received by Mr. J. Russell Smith. {95} Mr. M. A. Lower's translation of _The Chronicle of Battel Abbey, from the Vow of its Foundation by the Conqueror in 1066 to the Year 1176_, will be published in the course of the present month. Messrs. Sotheby and Co. will sell, on Monday and Tuesday next, a very valuable and important Collection of Classical and Historical Books, from the Library of a Collector; and on Wednesday and two following Days, an important portion of the valuable Library of the Right Hon. C. W. Williams Wynn, including First and Second Folio Shakspeare, Caxton's _Golden Legend_, and some valuable MSS., including one of the works of Robert Rolle, the Hermit of Hampole, &c. _Catalogues Received_.--William Brown's (46. High Holborn) Catalogue Part LI. of Second-hand English and Foreign Books on Theology, Fine Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature; J. Russell Smith's (4. Old Compton Street, Soho) Catalogue of Books relating to Kent, Sussex, and Surrey; W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Sixty-fifth Catalogue of Cheap Second-hand English Foreign and Classical Books. * * * * * BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. WALKER'S RHYMING DICTIONARY. MRS. GRANT'S LETTERS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. COLEBROOKE'S ESSAYS. 2 Vols. 8vo. SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF WESLEY (_Early Edition_.) CAESAR, VALPY'S DELPHIN EDITION. GREEK TRANSLATION OF CAESAR'S GALLIC WAR. VAN ESPEN, JUS ECCLESIASTICUM, 1781. [***] Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186, Fleet Street. * * * * * Notices to Correspondents.