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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

e's Life of Lorenzo de Medici—Bohns Standard
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Library

the seventh vclume of a series of valuable
works, now publishing in beautiful end uniform style, by
Mr. Bohn, at an extremely low price. This is another
v-r_,rlk which it is now too late to criticise, but this edition
is enriched by a new memoir of the author, written by his

and contains a fine portrait of "TheNlag,nificent."

12 our previous notices we have said that this series is
printed in a new and elegant form, and this duly consi-
dered, it is a marvel how the price can possibly remune-
rate the publisher, who has certainly succeeded in fulfil-
ling.the promise in Lis prospectus of "rendering the pro-
jected series worthy of distinction," and we hope he has
tecured the success which he has certainly used all the
,means in his power to merit.

The Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second by
:ount Grammont forms an "extra volume " of the series
ast alluded to, and is printer; with the above title and in a
ilfferent coloured binding, to mark the distinction from
ae.Standard Library; and the publisher has given it
.his distinguishing exterior, because having shown his in-
rations in publishing works of such established reputa-
ion as those of Robert Hall, Sismondi, &c., he is anxi-
Tas to manifest some evidence of his wish to deserve the
?,:on)idence of his subscribers, many of whom would other-
cc be startled on seeing in such a series art issue of a
work embued with so much of the leaven of Charles the
Second's days. The volume has a beautifully executed
!ortrait of Nell Gwynne.

Hogg's Weekly Instructor continues to deserve its
aracter for high moral sentiment, for a vast mass of in-
•mation important to every branch of society, and fur
scellaneous and amusing literature.

Sharpe's London .312gazine, of a character somewhat
lambling the preceding publication improves in its pie-
rtal and must win its way with the

The Tiny Library, for which Mr. Connor, of London-
ad, is the local agent, is a new candidate for the appro-
.l cf our juvenile friends, who will find nothing in its
gas beyond the grasp of their comprehension, while
ey will find abundance of moral entertainment and in-
:motion, which is illustrated by a great number of well
ecuted woodcuts, calculated at once to stamp more for-
*. the impression and the writer's meaning on the in-
nt mind.

Union Magazine. London : Barker and White, 33,
Fleet-street.
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This publication has now completed its first volume,
IA fully maintains the high character of its first numbers.

present number for June contains some excellently-
:ten articles, of a class calculated at once to amuse and
nstruct. N'Ve cordially recommend the Union Maga-
to the reading public.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Ten o'clock.

LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE.

We have just received information of a lamentable oc-
currence which we are sorry to say has involved a sac-
rifice of life. It appears from the brief particulars we
have learned, that about eight o'clock last night a joiner,
named Richard Wignall, residing in a cellar in Gore-street,
Toxteth-park, had some words with his wife sufficiently
loud to attract the attention of the neighbours, by whom
he was observed to fell her at one blow (with, we learn,
a piece of wood,) to the ground, from the effects of
which she died immediately. Dr. Cameron, of the
South Dispensary, was promptly in attendance, but his
services were of no avail. The perpetrator, who is 26
years of age, is in custody.