"Considering that wordes ben perisshyng, wayne, and forgateful, and wrytynes duelle and abide permanent, as I rede, _Vox audita perit, litera scripta manet_. Thise thinges have caused that the faites and deeds of auncient men ben sette by declaracion in fair and aourned volumes, to thende that science and artes, lerned and founden, of thinges passed might be had in perpetuel memorye and remembraunce," &c. "William Caxton. "Westmestre by London, 1481. BOLTON CORNEY. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. _The Athenæum_ of Saturday the 21st February announces that Sir F. Madden has secured for the British Museum the celebrated "Bedford Missal," and several other beautiful MSS., by the wise expenditure of three thousand pounds. The other MSS., not described by _The Athenæum_, are, we believe, the _Breviary of Isabella of Spain_, presented to her by Francisco de Rojas in 1497, on the occasion of the double marriage of her children, Don Juan and Doña Juana, to Margaret of Austria and Philip the Fair, which sold at Mr. Hurd's sale in 1832 for 520_l._; the _Hours of Juana of Castile_, wife of Philip the Fair, formerly in Hanrott's library; the _Hours of Francis I._, which sold in Sir Mark Masterman Sykes's sale, 1824, for 163_l._ 16_s._; the _Hours of François d'Inteville_, Bishop of Auxerre, executed in 1525, formerly in Beckford's collection; another volume of _Hours_ of the sixteenth century, and a fine copy, in two large vols. folio, of the French translation of Petrus Comestor's _Historia Scholastica_, by Guiart des Molins, completed in 1294. While we agree with our contemporary in our approval of this purchase, we cannot help adding to that approval a hope that neither the trustees nor the treasury will make this expenditure an excuse for not enabling the keeper of the MSS. to make extensive purchases at the sales of valuable historical collections which are expected to take place in the course of the present year. At a general meeting of the Percy Society held last Thursday week, the dissolution of the Society was determined on; and the meeting came to the very proper resolution of not selling the stock of books in hand, which would have had the effect of depreciating the market-value of the Society's publications, but of distributing them among the existing members. It is proposed, we believe, to form a new Society on a somewhat similar plan; but which is to have for its object the reprinting, without abridgment or omission, of such rare but well chosen tracts by Greene, Nash Breton, Taylor the Water Poet, &c. as afford valuable illustration of manners, or are interesting in any other point of view.