I believe there is a copy of this most useful publication in the British Museum. If so, it should appear in the _experimental_ catalogue of 1841, under the head of ACADEMIES--EUROPE--FRANCE--PARIS--_Société de l'histoire de France!_ BOLTON CORNEY. _Petition for the Recall from Spain of the Duke of Wellington_ (Vol. iv., p. 233.).--ÆGROTUS asked if a copy of the petition to the above effect from the Corporation of London to the Crown can be found, as it is a droll historical document, which should not sink into oblivion; he jumps at the conclusion that it does exist, but I think is mistaken. Through the kindness of a friend who is in the Corporation, I have had the journals searched, and have not been successful in finding any address to the above tenor. There are abundance congratulating the Prince Regent on the successes of the Duke, but none of censure. I have likewise ascertained that some of the oldest servants of the City feel quite sure that no such address was ever carried. If ÆGROTUS can give me any grounds for his belief, or anything likely to aid my inquiry, I will renew the search. E. N. W. Southwark. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. If any doubt could exist as to the value of the _Germania_ of Tacitus, as an invaluable contribution to the history of all the Teutonic races, a glance at the Appendix to Klemm's _Germanische Altherthumskunde_, in which that author has enumerated not only the best editions and translations of the _Germania_, but also the most important dissertations to which it has given rise, would at once dispel it. The scholar and the antiquary of this country may therefore be congratulated on the fact of Dr. Latham having prepared an edition of it, which has been issued under the title of _The Germania of Tacitus, with Ethnological Dissertations and Notes_. Although "the work," to use Dr. Latham's own words, "is rather a commentary upon the geographical part of the _Germania_, than on the _Germania_ itself--the purely descriptive part relating to the customs of the early Germans being passed over almost _sicco pede_,"--yet our readers will have no difficulty in estimating its importance, when we inform them that the Ethnological Dissertations and Notes which accompany the text may be said to embody the views, (ofttimes indeed dissented from by Dr. Latham,) of Grimm and Zeuss, and the learning with which those distinguished men have illustrated the subject. Indeed, Dr. Latham, who sets an example of openly acknowledging his obligations to other scholars which we should be glad to see more generally followed, expressly states, that whether the work before us took its present form, or that of a translation with an elaborate commentary of Zeuss's learned and indispensable work, _Die Deutschen und die Nachbarstämme_, was a mere question of convenience.