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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. NOVEMBER.

MR. THOMAS BAKER'S CatalogueJ532 contains a set of The Church Quarterly, 54 vols., half calf, 4/. 10s.; a complete edition of Aquinas, 181. ; one of Me- lanchthon, 28 vols., 4to, 4. : a fine copy of the Sixtine Bible, 1592, 9. 10s. ; ' Encyclopaedia Biblica,' 4 vols, 4to, cloth, 31. 5s. ; Hare's ' Story of Two Noble Lives,' large paper, 3 vols., small 4to, 15s. ; Brownlow and Nortncote's ' Early Christian Sym- bolism,' plates coloured by hand, 11. 10s. ; and Zollner's 'Pulpit Orator,' 6 vols., 11. 10s. An Appendix to the Catalogue contains Liturgies and Liturgical Literature.

We have received from the Bibliophile Press No. 32 of ' Anglo- Judaica.' It is well printed, quarto size, and is illustrated, the portraits in this number being those of the Rev. M. Hast, first precentor of the Great Synagogue, London, and the fate Rev. Simeon Singer, of the New West End Synagogue, and the late Rev. B. Spiers. The first portion of the catalogue is devoted to second-hand books, all of Jewish interest. The second part contains new books, and opens with "a great literary monument of Jewish life and thought," the complete translation of the Babylonian Talmud, edited' by Dr. Rodkinson, 20 vols., roy. 8vo, 101. 10s. Abu '1-Walid's ' Book of Hebrew Roots,' edited by Dr. Neubauer, 4to, 1875, is 21. 7s. Qd. Under Manu- scripts is ' Catalogue of the Hebrew Manuscripts in the Bodleian and College Libraries of Oxford,' 4to, 1886, 3. 12s. Qd. There is a collection of unique Jewish relics, including a Sepher case reputed to be 400 years old ; it is three feet high, and was found by a traveller in a Mohammedan mosque in Kai- fengfu. Two rubbings on silk were taken from a stone monument set up in memory of the Ching Ching Cenoby. The synagogue, with rolls of the Pentateuch, was destroyed by the overflowing of the Yellow River about 1403. A Chinese Jewish petition from the community referred to in the rubbings asks for help to rebuild their synagogue. The price of the collection is 521. 10s.

Mr. A. Lionel Isaacs has issued a Short Catalogue in which are many valuable items, including three original unpublished autograph manuscripts of Charlotte Bronte's, 85 guineas. Under Byron, is the autograph manuscript of a poem, 'The King of the Humbugs,' 52/. 10s. Under Carlell is 'The Passionate Lovers,' full levant, 1655, 11. 7s. This contains Humphrey Moseley's catalogue, among the books being ' Poems by Mr. William Shakespeare, Gent.,' <Scc. Under Costumes is 'The Miroir de la Mode,' 1803, 101. ; and under Cruikshank, ' German Popular Stories,' full levant, uncut, by Riviere, 1823-6, 2 vols., 85. (a unique copy of the excessively rare first edition). Dickens items include a copy of ' Oliver Twist,' 3 vols., 1838, 57^. 10s. In this are inserted original pencil drawings by Cruikshank. On one sheet, in Cruikshank's handwriting, is the following : " Sketches for ' Oliver Twist.' Sugges- tions to Mr. C. Dickens, the Writer." The Second Series of ' Sketches by Boz,' is a presentation copy to "J. P. Horley, Esqre., from his very sincerely Charles Dickens, Jany. 15th, 1837," original cloth in levant case, 45. Under Scott are valuable items, including a presentation copy of ' Quentin Durward ' ; tinder Leigh Hunt is the first edition of 'The Italian Poets,' blue levant, 1846, 17/. 10s. ; and under Charles Lever the original manuscript of
 * The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly,' 2 vols., bound

by Riviere, 1868, 200?. Did space allow, we might note many more. The catalogue also includes a collection of French illustrated books of the eigh- teenth century.

Mr. W. M. Murphy of Liverpool has in his List 139 choice books on Orchids, including a com- plete set of ' Iconographie des Orchidees,' 1885- 1903, very scarce, 251. There is a choice set of Ainsworth's Works, 16 vols., half-calf, 51. 5s. Items under Architecture include Britton's ' Antiquities,' 5 vols., 4to, half-russia, 1807-35, 21. 18s. Among other books are a nice set of Beaumont and Fletcher, 51. 5s.; Chaucer, folio, old calf, 1721, 11. 16s.; first edition of Bradford's coloured plates, 1809-10, 21. 15s. ; and Ben Jonson's Works, 7 vols., 1756, 21. 10s. Dickens collectors will be interested in the original play-bill of a performance by the amateur company organized by Dickens in ' Itfot so Bad as We Seem,' at the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, 14 Feb., 1852, 21. 10s. (in the same volume are two early provincial bills). Works on the Isle of Man include Train's ' Historical Account,' giving peculiar customs and superstitions, Douglas, 1845, II. 10s.

FOR the purpose of founding an Islington Anti- quarian and Historical Society a meeting will be held at the Central Public Library, Holloway Road, Highbury, on the evening of 3 December. Such an organization for the special study of local antiquities and history has long been desired. The Honorary Secretary pro tern, is Mr. S. T. C. Weekes, 10, York House, Highbury Crescent ; and the pro- moting Committee includes Messrs. Aleck Abra- hams, H. W. Fincham, J. W. Hancock, and W. H. Pratt.

FROM the bookshop of Leo Liepmannssohn at Berlin comes a catalogue headed the " Zeune-Spitta Collection," which affords a large choice of letters and MSS. of men of military and political distinc- tion, poets and men of letters, and artists. In all these three sections, as the illustrations of the cata- logue show, there is much worth the attention of collectors of autographs. Goethe figures in some interesting documents; Gottsched (1733) quotes Juvenal in an excellent handwriting ; and there are letters of Heine and Alexander Pope, musical MSS. of Chopin and Wagner, and several unprinted items of Beethoven. The sale at auction of the collection, by J. A. Stargardt of Liitzowstrasse, Berlin, takes place from the 23rd to the 25th inst.

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F. W. R. ("Free Libraries and Mr. Andrew Carnegie"). Mr. Stanley Jast, the Honorary Secretary of the Library Association, 24, Whit- comb Street, W.C., would probably answer your question.