FROM THE IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. FIRST SERIES. IN THREE VOLUMES. CONTENTS OF VOL. III. PART I. CITY AND CITIZENS BEFORE THE UNION, BY J. T. GILBERT, Esq. M. R. I. A., Nos. V. & VI. MACKNISH, MOIR, AIRD, AYTOUN, AND ALEXANDER SMITH. DUBLIN: T. 1857. ADVERTISEMENT. In issuing the present selection from the IRISH QUARTERLY Review, the Publisher begs to state that the First Series contains that portion of the Journal, commencing with the second number, and ending with the twelfth; embracing among many other interesting articles, those papers illustrative of " The History of the Streets of Dublin, by J. T. GILBERT, Esq., M.R.I.A.” He has been induced to make the present selection of the Numbers, in consequence of many persons wishing to avail themselves of the earlier portion of this periodical. &, Grafton-street, Dublin, 1857. 62631 THE The Prize Treatise on the Fine Arts Section of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Submitted to the Society of Arts in Competition for their Me- IV.-ENGLISH CONVIVIAL SONG WRITERS : 1. Bibliotheca Madrigaliana.-A Bibliographical Account of the Musical and Poetical Works published in England during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries, under the Titles of Ma- drigals, Ballets, Ayres, Canzonets. By Edward F. Rimbault, L.L.D., F.S.A. 8vo. London. 2. A Little Book of Songs and Ballads, gathered from Ancient Music Books, MS. and Printed. By Edward F. Rimbault, L.L.D., F.S.A., 8vo. 3. Lyra Urbanica ; or the Social Effusions of the |