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    Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January 1852
    Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January 1852
    Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January 1852
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    Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January 1852

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January 1852 - George Willis

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January

      1852, by Various

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      Title: Willis's Current Notes, No. XIII., January 1852

      Author: Various

      Editor: George Willis

      Release Date: September 13, 2013 [EBook #43708]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WILLIS'S CURRENT NOTES, JAN 1852 ***

      Produced by Emmy, Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      WILLIS'S

      CURRENT NOTES:

      A SERIES OF ARTICLES

      ON

      Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language,

      Literature, Topography, Curious Customs, &c.

      SELECTED FROM

      ORIGINAL LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS

      ADDRESSED DURING THE YEAR

      1852,

      TO THE PUBLISHER,

      G. WILLIS,

      GREAT PIAZZA, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON. MDCCCLIII.

      [Pg ii]

      [Pg iii]

      PREFACE.

      ENTERING as we now are upon the publication of a third volume of the Current Notes, the Second Volume of which we have herewith the pleasure of presenting in a complete form to the Public, our first duty as it is our pleasure is to thank our Subscribers most cordially for the very liberal support we have received from them during its progress. It is so seldom that the productions of the Customer and the Tradesman form part of the same Periodical, that it is no wonder if the Publisher of the Current Notes feels a little elated by seeing his humble efforts for the entertainment of the Public in such good company. But this patronage, so far from dulling his exertions in his legitimate pursuit—that of promoting the diffusion of Books in their widest extent—will only stimulate him to fresh efforts, and while he continues to place before his Customers the best Books, he trusts that they will be as liberal as hitherto in their contributions of Current Notes.

      The Price Current of Literature, indeed, now occupies a position distinct from that of any other Bookseller's Catalogue ever presented to the public, for it not only furnishes a monthly list of the principal New Publications, followed by a constant succession of Standard Works in every department of Ancient and Modern Literature, selected with care and judgment, but it likewise presents a medium for Literary Inquirers to prosecute their researches and interchange their opinions. Nor is this correspondence confined to our own land. From the Colonies and America, over which it ranges in its wide circulation, we continue to receive gratifying testimonials to its usefulness, as well as accessions to its columns, and have reason to believe it is duly appreciated by those whose favour it is our study to deserve and interest to secure.

      The aim of the publisher has been to establish a literary organ of communication amongst his numerous Subscribers and Friends, by inviting their correspondence, and throwing open his columns to their inquiries and suggestions, and thus by propounding queries, solving difficulties, and eliciting new facts, rendering some slight service to the cause of Historical and Literary Truth. So cordially have they responded to this invitation, that the task of selection has been sometimes a difficult, though always a pleasing one. If there have been any communications from Correspondents which have not met with due regard and consideration, it must be pleaded in apology that this miscellany of curious information necessarily embraces so wide a field, that in gathering in

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