Chapter 4

_Foreign Books._--From official accounts it appears that the foreign books imported into the United Kingdom in the year 1830, weighed 3,441 cwt. 3 qrs. 13 lbs. the amount of duty upon which was £11,865 4_s_. 4_d_. We find this in a paper on the Duties on Foreign Books in the _Foreign Quarterly Review_, just published; in which the imported old books have obtained a considerable ascendancy over the new ones.

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The lovers of the Fine Arts will hear with sorrow, the destruction by fire of Mr. Wilmshurst's splendid Painted Window of the Tournament of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, described at page 246, vol. xv. of _The Mirror_. It was completed about two years since at a cost of nearly 2,000_l_., and three years' labour of the artist.

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