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 10 s. XL JA>. 2, 1909.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

1849 Second-Hand Book Department given up. 18ol Travellers' Library started. 1852 Roget's ' Thesaurus ' published.

1860 Gas tirst used at Paternoster Row.

1861 ' Essays and Reviews' published.

House damaged by fire, and old buildings demolished.

1862 Colenso's ' Pentateuch ' published.

1863 New building finished.

Absorbed Parker's business. Alpine Journal started. 1866 Macaulay's Complete Works published.

1870 Beaconsfield's ' Lothair ' published.

1871 Langs 'Ballads and Lyrics of Old France'

published.

1874 ' Supernatural Religion ' published.

1875 American Agency opened.

1876 Trevelyan's ' Lite ot Macaulay ' published. 1878 Lecky's ' England,' Vols. I. and il., published.

1882 Longman's Magazine founded.

1883 Gave up Retail Department.

1885 Badminton Library, first volume published. Stevenson's 'Child's Garden of Verses'

published. 18S6 English Historical Review founded.

1887 The " Ship " Binding Works opened.

1888 The Silver Library, tirst volume published.

1889 Lang's Fairy Tale Series, first volume

published.

1890 Absorbed Rivington's business.

1891 Longmans' Cricket Club started.

1894 Electric light first used.

1895 Badminton Magazine founded. Bombay House opened.

' The Golliwogg ' born.

1896 Acquired William Morris's Works.

1899 Oxford Library of Practical Theology started.

In the Reign of Edward VII. 1902 Handbooks for the Clergy started. Indian Education founded.

1905 Political History of England started.

1906 Calcutta Branch opened.

1907 Longmans' Cricket Club revived.

1908 The Journal of Elizabeth, Lady Holland,

published.

SUCCESSIONS AND IMPRINTS OF THE FIKM OF

LONGMAN. Compiled by William Henry Peet.

1724 T. Longman (I.)

(.Born 1699, died 1755.)

1725 J. Osborn & T. Longman.

(J. Osborn, born, died 1734, T. Long- man's father-in-law.)

1734 T. Longman.

1746 T. Longman & Co., f

(Thomas Longman, Thomas Shewell.) Mj; authority for this detail is the Stationers Company's Register. Transfers of shares were always registered, and these give names of partners.

174" T. Longman.

1754 T. & T. Longman. TT.

(Founder and nephew, Thos. Longman il.)

1755 M. & T. Lonsjman. ,

(M. was for Mary, born -, died 17BB, widow of Thos. Longman I. The partner- ship was between her and her husbands nephew Thomas Longman II.) 1755 T. Longman (II.).

(Born 1731, died 1797.)

1795 T. N. Longman (III.).

(Born 1771, died 1842.) 1799 T. N. Longman & 0. Rees.

(Owen Rees, born 1770, died 1837.) .804 Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme.

(Thomas Hurst, born 1775, retired 1825, died

1847; Cosmo Orme, born, became partner

1804, retired 1841, died 1859.) 1811 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown.

(Thomas Brown, born 1778, became partner

1811; retired 1859, died 1869.) 1823 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green.

(Bevis E. Green, born 1794, became jjartner

1824, retired 1865, died 1869.) 1825 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. 1832 Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & 'Long- man.

(*T. Longman IV., born 1804, became partner

1832. died 1879.) 1838 Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & 'Longmans.

(*T. Longman IV., and William Longman,

born 1813, became partner 1839, died 1877.) 1841 Longman,*15rown, Green & Longmans. 1856 Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts.

(The first " Longman " is only a figurehead

from 1842 to 1859. Thomas Roberts, born

1810, became partner 1856, died 1865.) 1859 Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts. 1862 Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green. 1865 Longmans. Green, Reader & Dyer.

(Thomas Reader, born 1818, became partner

1865, retired 1889, died 1905. Robert^ Dyer,

born 1817, became partner 186o, died 1 1889 Longmans, Green & Co.

Since the founding of the firm it has never been without a Thomas Longman, and the present is the fifth bearing that name. When one considers the freedom with which theological questions are now discussed, it is strange to remember what offence was given to some friends of the firm by the publication of 'Essays and Reviews in

1861. As to Colenso's ' Pentateuch

1862, all the blame fell on the Bishop. Looking at the record of the chief events

in the history of the Longman firm, I can imagine none which it regards with greatei pleasure than its association with Macaulay, which was vividly recalled to public remem- brance by the affectionate terms in whicl his nephew Sir George Trevelyan referred to it at the recent Booksellers' Dinner as "an old family connexion, as prolonged as any recorded in literary history -a connexion ^ nem clouded by suspicion, never disturbed by even t shadow of a misunderstanding. It began m the vear 1842, sixty-six years ago, when Lord Macaulay s ^ookswere published; indeed, it may be said to bSfbSS in 1825, when the Essay on Milton was

sent to TheEdinbitrgh Review Macaulay has left

much to me. and to those who are coming after - - but he has feft us hardly anything of * than the close bond of friendship, auc vice" which has already. united us for two ^genera- tions to a certain house in Paternoster Row.

JOHN C. FRANCIS.