HANDBOOK FOR NORTH ITALY.—Being a Guide to SARDINIA, LOMBARDY, VENICE, PARMA, PIACENZA, MODENA, LUCCA, FLORENCE, and TUSCANY, as far as the VAL D'ARNO. With Maps and Plates. Post 8vo. 9s.

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HANDBOOK FOR CENTRAL ITALY. Part I.—Being a Guide to SOUTHERN TUSCANY and the PAPAL STATES. With Maps and Plans. Post 8vo. 7s.

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HANDBOOK FOR CENTRAL ITALY, Part II.—Being a Guide to ROME and its Environs. With Plan, Post 8vo. (Nearly Ready.)

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HANDBOOK FOR SOUTHERN ITALY.—Being a guide to the CONTINENTAL PORTION of the TWO SICILIES, including NAPLES, POMPEII, HERCULANEUM, VESUVIUS, BAY OF NAPLES, &c. With Map and Plans. Post 8vo. 15s.

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HANDBOOK TO THE ITALIAN SCHOOLS OF PAINTING—From the German of Kugler. With 100 Illustrations from the Old Masters. Post 8vo.

JOHN MURRAY, Albemarle Street.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXXVI., is published on SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15th.

1

In one of the Scottish ballads the same idea is more prettily expressed "leaned until a brier."

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2

It refers to Sir Robert Ker Porter's third great battle-piece, AGINCOURT: which memorable battle took place October 25, 1415. Sir Robert presented it to the city of London, and it is still in the possession of the corporation: it was hung up in the Guildhall a few years since.

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In 1808, Sir R. K. Porter accompanied Sir John Moore's expedition to the Peninsula, and attended the campaign throughout, up to the closing catastrophe of the battle of Corunna. On his return to England, he published anonymously, Letters from Portugal and Spain, written during the March of the Troops under Sir John Moore, 1809, 8vo.—Ed.

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4

This note says the arms are reversed, being impressed from a mould.

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5

"The crest of Clopton is a falcon clapping his wings, and rising from a tun; and I verily believe the rose clapt on to be the miserable quibble intended."

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