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MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
That the good service which the _English Historical Society_ has
rendered to that branch of our national literature, for the promotion of
which it was instituted, is clearly recognised, is shown by the fact,
that of the small paper copies of the Society's publications, many of
the earlier volumes are now entirely out of print. Of the six volumes of
Mr. Kemble's invaluable _Codex Diplomaticus_, a work alike honourable to
the patriotic zeal of the Society and to the profound learning of its
editor, the first two volumes are, we believe, no longer to be procured.
Good texts of our early chronicles, in an acceptable form, have long
been wanted. That want, the English Historical Society is gradually
supplying. Their last publication is now before us. To Mr. Benjamin
Williams, the editor of _La Chronique de la Traison et Mort de Richard
II., Roy d'Angleterre_, the Society and the public is now indebted for
_Henrici Quinti Anglice Regis Gesta, cum Chronica Neustriae Gallice, ab
anno MCCCCXIV. ad MCCCCXXII._, a volume containing an account of the
battle of Agincourt, one of those mighty struggles, the result of which
changed the face of Europe; as well as a detailed narrative of Henry's
second expedition to the Continent, a subject passed over by historians
with less attention than it deserves. Mr. Williams' Preface gives a very
interesting notice of the MSS.
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