At all times it has been the sole depository of
much valuable information of a great variety of kinds. We are
confident that under the new management {190} it will put forth
fresh claims to the favour of the public. Many writers of high
reputation in historical and antiquarian literature are henceforth
to be enlisted in its service. We shall look for the forthcoming
number with great interest.
Scheible, of Stuttgart, who is doubtless known to our readers as the
publisher of some very curious works illustrative of the popular
literature of Germany of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
has just commenced a new Library of Magic, &c., or _Bibliothek der
Zanber-Geheimnisse-und Offenbarungs-Bucher_. The first volume of it
is devoted to a work ascribed to that prince of magicians, our old
familiar, Dr. Faustus, and bears the imposing title _Doktor Johannes
Faust's Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis, oder Dreifacher Hoellenzwang,
leiztes Testament und Siegelkunst_. It is taken from a MS. of the
last century, filled with magical drawings and devices enough to
summon back again from the Red Sea all the spirits that ever were
laid in it. It is certainly a curious book to publish in the middle
of the nineteenth century.
Messrs. Sotheby and Co. will sell the extensive and valuable
Collection of MSS. in all languages formed by the late Mr. Rodd, on
Monday the 4th of February, and five following days.
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