ERRATA. A very few 'slips' have met my eyes on a final reading. They are-as says an ancient Divine-“ as easily corrected as espied." Nevertheless they are here recorded that the Reader of his charity may put them right, and any others that may have escaped Editor and Printer. In Nosce Teipsum, the heading and head-line (Vol. I., pp. 25, 26 onward) has 'Immortalitie' misprinted 'Immortalite'—a common contemporary spelling-but it is 'tie' in the title-page (p. 5): ib. p. 80, l. 15, read 'be best.' In Hymnes to Astræa, ib. p. 147, 1. 3, remove period (.) after 'rayes.' In Orchestra, ib. p. 181, st. 53, l. 7, read' perfect-cunning': p. 185, foot-note 7, put G. at end : p. 192, st. 81, 1. 7, ' Ply' =entwine (omitted): p. 194, foot-note 7, it is 'coach,' not 'couch': p. 202, l. 10, 'shoe' was the contemporary spelling: p. 204, st. 113, l. 6, insert 'it' before shine.'-G. : ON BOOKS AND BOOK-BUYERS. BY JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D. "I say we have despised literature; what do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call him mad-a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their books. Or, to go lower still, how much do you think the contents of the bookshelves of the United Kingdom, public and private, would fetch, as compared with the contents of its wine-cellars? What position would its expenditure on literature take as compared with its expenditure on luxurious eating? We talk of food for the mind, as of food for the body: now, a good book contains such food inexhaustibly: it is provision for life, and for the best part of us; yet how long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it! Though there have been men who have pinched their stomachs and bared their backs to buy a book, whose libraries were cheaper to them, I think, in the end, than most men's dinners are. We are few of us put to such a trial, and more the pity; for, indeed, a precious thing is all the more precious to us if it has been won by work or economy; and if public libraries were half as costly as public dinners, or books cost the tenth part of what bracelets do, even foolish men and women might sometimes suspect there was good in reading as well as in munching and sparkling ; whereas the very cheapness of literature is making even wiser people forget that if a book is worth reading it is worth buying."-SESAME AND LILIES, OR KINGS' TREASURES. A List of Books PUBLISHED BY CHATTO & WINDUS, 74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W. DVERTISING, A HISTORY OF, from the Earliest Times. "We have here a book to be thankful for. Among the many interesting illustrations is a photographed copy of the Times for January 1st, 1788, which may be easily read by means of a magnifying glass. We recommend the present volume, which takes us through antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the present time, illustrating all in turn by advertisements-serious, comic, roguish, or downright rascally. The chapter on swindles and hoaxes' is full of entertainment; but of that the volume itself is full from the first page to the last."-Athenæum. ÆSOP'S FABLES TRANSLATED into HUMAN NATURE. By C. H. BENNETT. Crown 4to, 24 Plates beautifully printed in Colours, with descriptive Text, cloth extra, gilt, 6s. "For fun and frolic the new version of Esop's Fables must bear away the palm. There are plenty of grown-up children who like to be amused; and if this new version of old stories does not amuse them they must be very dull indeed, and their situation one much to be commiserated."-Morning Post. ARTEMUS WARD, COMPLETE.- The Works of CHARLES FARRER BROWNE, better known as ARTEMUS WARD. With fine Portrait, facsimile of Handwriting, &c. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d. "The author combines the powers of Thackeray with those of Albert Smith. The salt is rubbed in with a native hand-one which has the gift of tickling."-Saturday Review. AS PRETTY AS SEVEN, and other Popular German Stories. Collected by LUDWIG BECHSTEIN. With Additional Tales by the Brothers GRIMM, and roo Illustrations by RICHTER. Small 4to, green and gold, 6s. 6d. ; gilt edges, 7s. 6d. "These tales are pure and healthful; they will shed over childhood a rosy light, and strew the path with stars and flowers, the remembrance of which will last through life."-Preface. |