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INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARE

LONDON: J. B. NICHOLS AND ON, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET.

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So little change has taken place in any circumstances relating to the progress of those branches of literature or science with which we are more particularly related, since we last addressed our readers, that we find ourselves nearly circumscribed to the duty of thanking them for the continuance of their support, and hoping that they will not permit the aspiring emulation of younger rivals to induce them to neglect the claims or forsake the acquaintance of their older and long-established friend. Among our present papers, we have found the "Portfolio of a Man of Letters to have been well received, and widely read; recalling to our minds, in its character or style, the "Diary of a Lover of Literature," which was reluctantly concluded some time since. We may also mention that it is now our full intention to commence our Glossary of the local words used in the Eastern Counties, which may form a contribution to an Archæological Dictionary at once more accurate and extended than has as yet been given to the world; and which has been either fortunately or judiciously delayed till local glossaries of provincial expressions have been more generally formed; on the accuracy and fulness of which the Archæological Dictionary must depend, as general histories do on the existence of particular documents, public records, and papers of private families. Every river must be fed by its tributary streams: and on this head we may congratulate the public on the projected publication of the Stuart Papers, by command of her Majesty, parts of which we believe will soon appear under very careful and able editorship; and which will for the first time afford authentic materials for that period of our history, that has hitherto been little better than a wild and romantic story of rash adventures, and hair-breadth escapes, under unexampled instances of suffering, loyalty, and courage. That which is printed, is fixed for ever: and we consider it of the utmost importance that every document connected with authority should as speedily as possible be removed

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