whether these "arts" are not as "forbidden" as they are "curious." The Society of Arts have opened a reading-room for the gratuitous use of foreign visitors to London during the Great Exhibition. Our readers will be doing a kindness to their friends from the Continent by making them acquainted with this act of liberality and good feeling on the part of the Society of Arts. Messrs. Puttick and Simpson (191. Piccadilly) will sell on Wednesday and Thursday next a curious and valuable Library, rich more especially in the department of voyages and travels, and including a collection of very rare works relating to America. CATALOGUES RECEIVED.--B. Quaritch's (16. Castle Street, Leicester Square) Cheap Book Circular No. 29. of Books in all Languages.--C. Hamilton's (22. Anderson's Buildings, City Road) Interesting Catalogue No. 43. of Cheap Tracts, Law and Miscellaneous Manuscripts, &c.--J. Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue No. 23. of Books Old and New. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. DIANA (ANTONINUS) COMPENDIUM RESOLUTIONEM MORALIUM. Antwerp.-Colon. 1634-57. PASSIONAEL EFTE DAT LEVENT DER HEILIGEN. Folio. Basil, 1522. CARTARI--LA ROSA D'ORO PONTIFICIA. 4to. Rome, 1681. BROEMEL, M. C. H., FEST-TANZEN DER ERSTEN CHRISTEN. Jena, 1705. THE COMPLAYNT OF SCOTLAND, edited by Leyden. 8vo. Edin. 1801. THOMS' LAYS AND LEGENDS OF VARIOUS NATIONS. Parts I. to VII. 12mo. 1834. L'ABBÉ DE SAINT PIERRE, PROJET DE PAIX PERPETUELLE. 3 Vols. 12mo. Utrecht, 1713. CHEVALIER RAMSAY, ESSAI DE POLITIQUE, où l'on traite de la Nécessité de l'Origine, des Droits des Bornes et des différentes Formes de la Souveraineté, selon les Principes de l'Auteur de Télémaque. 2 Vols. 12mo. La Haye, without date, but printed in 1719. The same. Second Edition, under the title "Essai Philosophique sur le Gouvernement Civil, selon les Principes de Fénélon," 12mo. Londres, 1721. PULLEN'S ETYMOLOGICAL COMPENDIUM, 8vo. COOPER'S (C. P.) ACCOUNT OF PUBLIC RECORDS, 8vo. 1822. Vol I. LINGARD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Sm. 8vo. 1837. Vols. X. XI. XII. XIII. MILLER'S (JOHN, OF WORCESTER COLL.) SERMONS. Oxford, 1831 (or about that year). WHARTON'S ANGLIA SACRA. Vol. II. PHEBUS (Gaston, Conte de Foix), Livre du deduyt de la Chasse. TURNER'S SACRED HISTORY. 3 vols. demy 8vo. KNIGHT'S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Vol. IV. Commencing from Abdication of James II. LORD DOVER'S LIFE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. 8vo. 1832. Vol. II. LADIES' DIARY FOR 1825 AND 1826. CHRISTIAN'S COUNSELS, &C., WITH THE SEPARATISTS' SCHISM, by Richard Bernard, of Worksop or Batcombe, 1608. Any early Copies of Tyndale the Reformer's WORKS. LIFE OF DR. RICHARD FIELD, 2 Vols. 8vo. London. 1716-17. FAIRFAX'S TASSO, Singer's Edit. Large paper, uncut. CRESPET, PERE. Deux Livres de la Haine de Satan et des Malins Esprits contre l'Homme. 8vo. Paris, 1590.