PUBLICATIONS OF MESSRS. TRÜBNER & CO. IMPORTANT TO LIBRARIANS, COLLECTORS OF BOOKS, AND BOOKSELLERS. In one Volume 8vo of 750 pages, half bound, price 18s. TRÜBNER'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO AMERICAN LITERATURE. A CLASSED LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FROM 1817 TO 1857. With Bibliographical Introduction, Notes and Alphabetical Inder. This work, it is believed, is the first attempt to marshal the Literature the United States of America during the last forty years, according to the generally received bibliographical Canons. The Librarian will welcome it, ne doubt, as a Companion Volume to Brunet, Lowndes and Ebert, whilst to the bookseller it will be a faithful guide to the American branch of English Lite rature-a branch which on account of its rapid increase and rising importane begins to force itself daily, more and more, upon his attention. Nor will th work be of less interest to the man of letters, inasmuch as it comprises comp tables of Contents to all the more prominent Collections of the Americans, to th Journals, Memoirs, Proceedings and Transactions of their learned Societiesand thus furnishes an intelligible Key to a Department of American scientif activity, hitherto but imperfectly known and understood in Europe. reparing for speedy Publication, in Two Volumes, 8vo, with numerous Illustrations. MEMOIRS OF LIBRARIES; Libraries. 2. The Libraries of the English Benedictines. Appendix to Chap. 2.-Catalogue of the Library of Christchurch Monastery, Canterbury. Now first published from the Cotton MS., Galba E. iv. 3. The Libraries of the German, Flemish, and Swiss Benedictines. 4. The Libraries of the Italian and French Benedictines. 5. The Libraries of the Mendicant Orders. 6. The Economy of the Monastic Libraries. 7. The Decline of Learning in the English Monasteries. 8. The Dissolution of the English Monasteries, and Dispersion of their Libraries. 9. Royal, Noble, and Plebeian Collectors in the Middle Ages. Book III.-The Modern Libraries of Great Britain and Ireland. Chap. 1. The Formation and Growth of the several Collections which eventually became the Library of the British Mu seum: şi. The Old Collection of the English Kings. § ii. The Cottonian Library. § iii. The Harleian Library. § iv. The Courten and Sloane Collections. 2 to 5. History and Contents of the British Museum. 6. The Origin and Growth of the Bodleian Library. § i. The Founder: his En terprise Helpers. and his § ii. History of the Bodleian, from the time of Selden. 7. The State and Prospects of the Bodleian Library. § i. Notices of the more conspicuous Bod leian Treasures. § ii. The Oxford University Commission of 1854. Appendix to Chap. 7:(1.) Note on the Acquisition of the Selden Library. (2.) Hearne's Account of his Dismissal from the Under Librarianship. Chap. 8. The Minor University Libra- | Chap. 21 The Library of Trinity College. ries, and the Collegiate Lib raries of Oxford. bridge. 11. The Public Library of Humphrey Chetham at Manchester: § i. Life of a Manchester Merchant during the Civil Wars. ii. The Merchant's Foundations under Trusteeship. § iii. Character, Contents, and Defects of the Chetham Library. § iv. The Chetham Manuscripts. 12. The Cathedral Libraries of England. 13. The Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth Palace. 14. The Libraries of the English Inns of Court. 15. The Older Libraries of English Towns, and their Management by Municipal Corporations. 16. The Parochial and Quasi-Parochial Libraries of England. 17. The History of the Public Libraries Acts of 1850 and 1855. 18. The Working of the Public Libraries Acts of 1850 and 1855. Dublin, and the other chiet 22. The Minor Libraries of Lon don. 23. British Private Libraries which have been dispersed. 24. Notices of some existing British Private Libraries. 11. 12. Past, Present, and Future, By HERMANN E. LUDEWIG. With Additions and Corrections by PROFESSOR WM. W. TURNER. Svo, fly and general title, 2 leaves; Dr. Ludewig's preface, pp. v-viii; the Editor's preface, pp. ix-xii; Biographical Memoir of Dr. Ludewig, pp. xiii, xiv; and INTRODUCTORY BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, pp. xv-xxiv, followed by List of Contents. Then follow Dr. Ludewig's Bibliotheca Glottica, alphabetically arranged, with additions by the Editor, pp. 1-209; Professor Turner's additions, with those of the Editor to the same, also alphabetically arranged, pp. 210-246; Index, pp. 247-256; and list of Errata, pp. 257, 258. One volume, handsomely bound in cloth, price 10s. 6d. This work is intended to supply a great want, now that the study of Ethnology has proved that exotic languages are not mere curiosities, but essential and interesting parts of the natural history of man, forming one of the most curious links in the great chain of national affinities, defining, as they do, the reciprocity |