Chapter 3

Just published, in One handsome Volume, 8vo., profusely illustrated with Engravings by JEWITT, price One Guinea,SOME ACCOUNT OF DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN ENGLAND, from the CONQUEST to the END of the THIRTEENTH CENTURY, with numerous Illustrations of Existing Remains from Original Drawings. Interspersed with some Notices of Domestic Manners during the same Period. By T. HUDSONTURNER.Oxford: JOHN HENRY PARKER; and 377. Strand, London.

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"One of the most valuable and interesting pamphlets we ever read."—Morning Herald.

"This publication, which promises to be the commencement of a larger work, will well repay serious perusal."—Ir. Eccl. Journ.

"A small pamphlet in which he throws a startling light on the practices of modern Mesmerism."—Nottingham Journal.

"Dr. Maitland, we consider, has here brought Mesmerism to the 'touchstone of truth,' to the test of the standard of right or wrong. We thank him for this first instalment of his inquiry, and hope that he will not long delay the remaining portions."—London Medical Gazette.

"The Enquiries are extremely curious, we should indeed say important. That relating to the Witch of Endor is one of the most successful we ever read. We cannot enter into particulars in this brief notice; but we would strongly recommend the pamphlet even to those who care nothing about Mesmerism, orangry(for it has come to this at last) with the subject."—Dublin Evening Post.

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