Literature, Science, and the Arts have sustained a heavy loss in the death of that accomplished patron of them--that most amiable nobleman the Marquess of Northampton. His noble simplicity and single-mindedness of character, and his unaffected kindliness of manner, endeared him to all who had the good fortune to be honoured with his acquaintance, and by all of whom his death will be long and most deeply regretted.
Mr. Sandys, F.S.A., of Canterbury, has issued a Prospectus for the immediate publication, by Subscription, of the _Consuetudines Kanciæ: a History of Gavelkind and other remarkable Customs in the County of Kent_.
Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will sell on Monday next, and four following days, a very select and valuable Library, the property of a gentleman deceased, including among other choice lots, two early MSS. of the _Divina Comedia_, and an extensive, rare, and interesting series of early editions of Dante. { 78}
_Books Received._--_Clark's Introduction to Heraldry_ (London, Washbourne), fourteenth edition, which contains a chapter and plates, which are entirely new, on Heraldry in conjunction with Architecture;--_Hints and Queries intended to promote the Preservation of Antiquities and the Collection and Arrangement of Information on the Subject of Local History and Tradition_--a most useful little tract, highly creditable to the _Kilkenny Archæological Society_, by whose order it has been printed for circulation;--_The Peril of the Papal Aggression; or, the Case as it stands between the Queen and the Pope, by Anglicanus_. London, Bosworth.
_Catalogues Received._--Charles Skeet's (21. King William Street, Charing Cross) Catalogue No. 1. for 1851, of a Miscellaneous Collection of Books, New and Second-hand; John Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue, Part CXX. (No. 1. for 1851) of Old and New Books; Edward Stibbs' (331. Strand) Catalogue, Part II., of a valuable Collection of Books, including an extensive purchase of Italian, French, and Spanish Literature; Bernard Quaritch's (16. Castle Street, Leicester Square) Catalogue No. 23. of European and Oriental Philology and General Literature; John Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue No. XVII. of Books Old and New.