NOTIC E.

A PIRATICAL imitation of this popular series having been announced, in which its size, form, and appearance, are attempted to be closely copied, the subscribers and the public are respectfully cautioned against this act of unprincipled and unblushing plagiarism.

The nature of this proceeding will be fully understood, when it is stated, that of six books announced by the plagiaristprojector, four are "conveyed" from the "List," already in our readers' hands, of works in preparation for the "EUROPEAN LIBRARY," and one (Leo X.) is manifestly suggested by the publication of another work of the same author in this series!

The plagiarist-projector characteristically boasts "that his constant intercourse with the learned in all parts of the world, and his extensive literary property, will enable him to bring such resources to the formation of his Standard Library, as" &c. The value to be attached to this vapid flourish may be duly estimated from the preceding statement, that five-sixths of his announcements are appropriations from the European Library, and the remaining sixth, the reprint of an old translation from the German!

The publisher of the EUROPEAN LIBRARY pledges himself, notwithstanding this flagrant appropriation of his plan and ideas, to produce every work he has announced, in a style worthy of the high character of his series. Their production, more especially with reference to the Foreign Works—as he does not give mere reprints from exploded translations—will necessarily require a certain time, but they shall be published with the least delay that is consistent with their due preparation.

Fleet-street,

January, 1846.