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eludes his study of ' The Defamers of Shakespeare,' which is of high interest. We wish that he would enlarge his material, taking count of the modern research concerning the subject which

(matters, and give us a book in which fact, and theory founded on fact, were rigidly separated. In ' The Great Inquest ' Mr. J. A. R. Marriott deals with the Poor Law Report, or rather Re- ports, since the minority have made theirs into (a book. He is concerned with bringing out strik- ing points rather than suggesting defects or improvements an attitude we commend. It is the facts that the ordinary man wants, and they are fairly concealed in stodgy publications of great length. ' Some Personal Experiences of the Great Earthquake,' by the Hon. Alexander Nelson Hood (Duke of Bronte), is a poignant study of the feelings of a man on the spot.

IN The National Review political articles abound. ' Episodes of the Month ' being a long and vigorous criticism. Mr. McKenna is credited with a " Mandarinish remark," and Mr. Asquith is said to have " missed the opportunity of a life- tune in not ' Goschening ' his President of the Board of Trade." " Candidate " follows up the attacks on various Tories with an article on ' Useless Unionists.' Mr. Austin Dobson has an admirable study entitled ' Percy and Gold- smith,' which has for text Miss Gaussen's recent book on the former. ' From High School to College,' by a Newnhamite, is both amusing and valuable. Mr. Harold Russell has a good subject in ' The Natural History of the Cuckoo,' recording facts which have only been discovered of recent years. Mrs. Stanley Barry's ' Women and Patriotism ' is brief, but full of sound sense. She complains that girls' schools are " hockey mad," while " the lack of domesticity in women's educa- tion is greatly to be deplored." Everything is conducted on a luxurious basis in up-to-date female establishments, and women ought to spend tune now given to amusement in taking Ambulance courses, or qualifying themselves for nursing duty in case of war.

The Burlington Magazine contains this month a wealth of interesting reproductions. The editorial article explains that a small panel has been picked up in a London saleroom with the signature of Rembrandt, which is justified by the workmanship. The purchase has at once gone to Berlin, which suggests some reflections about the organization of our National Gallery and its reduction " to impotence by an absurd administrative system." Mr. F. R. Martin deals with two portraits by Behzad, the greatest painter of Persia, who died in 1506, and shows traces of Chinese influence. Mr. Charles Ricketts has a generous article ' In Memory of Charlfs Conder,' some of whose charming work is repro- duced, and Mr. R. E. Fry also refers to him in noticing the Exhibition of Fair Women. We wish we had space to quote Mr. Fry's brilliant description of Conder's style. Mr. A. M. Hind has au important paper on states of prints, sug- gested by reviewers of his ' Short History of Engraving and Etching.' Mr. G. F. Hill con- tinues ' Notes on Italian Medals,' and Mr. Herbert Cook writes on ' The Concert at Asolo, after Gior- gione,' in Lord Berwick's collection. The notes include a short account of ' The " Leonardo " Discovery at Milan,' which justifies the scepticism we expressed as to this item. Prof. Clausen has

a review of Prof. Holmes's highly interesting ' Notes on the Science of Picture-Making ' ; and ' The Book of the Pearl ' is accorded two reviews one from a man of science, Mr. A. E. Shipley.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. APRIL.

MESSRS. HENRY R. HILL & SON'S Catalogue 96" contains Alken's ' Symptoms of being Amused,' half-levant, 1822, 61. 6s. ; also the ' New Scrap- Book,' full calf by Riviere, with original covers bound up, McLean, 1824, 51. 5s. Works under American Family History include the Went- worths, the Wilders, the Wadsworths, and others. There is a beautiful copy of Pickering's edition of Bacon, half-russia, 17 vols. in 16, 1825-34, 61. 6s. A fine sound copy of the 1757 edition of the ' Decameron ' is 81. 8s. ; and of Brunet's ' Manuel du Libraire,' with supplement, 8 vols., full calf, 1860, 121. 12s. There is a complete set of Lawrence & Bullen's French and Italian novelists, 9 vols., as new, in watered silk, IQl. 10s. Gillray, the McLean edition, 1830, is 41. 4s. ; Sharpe's ' British Classics,' 24 vols., 1804-10, 11. 7s. ; Stephens's ' Runic Monuments,' 1866- 1884, 3 vols., folio, 31. 3s. ; and first edition of Johnson's ' Dictionary,' 1755, 2 vols., folio, 31. 3s. There are lists under Natural History, European and Oriental Philology, &c.

Mr. John Hitchman's Birmingham Catalogue 480 contains Binns's ' First Century of English Porce- lain,' 1744-1856, large 4to, 11. Is. ; the National Edition of Dickens, 40 vols., royal 8vo, 141. 14s. ; Chalmers's ' Caledonia,' 21. 10s. ; Fea's ' Memoirs of the Martyr King,' 1905, 21. 15s. ; Nightingale's ' Early English Porcelain,' 1881, 11. 5s. ; the first edition of ' The Mill on the Floss,' 3 vols., 11. 5s. ; Fielding, Edition de Luxe, 16 vols., 41. 15s. (limited to 375 copies) ; and the ' Grammont Memoirs,' thick 4to, russia, 1792-3, 41. 18s. John Addington Symonds's copy of Sturlason's ' Sagas of the Norse Kings,' by Laing, 4 vols., 1889, is 21. 15s. ; and the Standard Library Edition of Thackeray, 26 vols., original cloth, uncut, 1883, 91. 9s.

Mr. George P. Johnston's Edinburgh Cata- logue 89 contains a choice presentation copy of The Bookworm, 5 vols. in 2, all published, blue morocco, 51. 5s. ; Grose's ' Antiquities,' 17837, 8 vols., 4to, 31. 10s. ; Lodge's ' Portraits,' 1821-8,

3 vols., large folio, 81. 8s. ; and Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica," 1824, 2 vols., 4to, russia, 21. 12s. (Mr. Johnston ought not to print the author's name as W r atts). There are a number of the Bannatyne Club publications. Under Scott are a series of sketches of localities alluded to in his novels, Cadell, 1829, 11. 18s. ; and Napier's ' Homes and Haunts,' 21. 2s. The latter is a beautiful book ; only 550 copies printed. There are many works relating to Scotland, including Cunningham's ' Songs of Scotland,' 4 vols., 11. 2s. ; Stuart's ' Sculptured Stones,' 2 vols., large folio, 111. ; and Sibbald's ' Scottish Poetry,'

4 vols., 11. 10s. Works on Scottish family history include the Bannatynes, Bruces, Buchanans, Cockburns, Gordons, W T edderburns, Panmures, ind others.

Mr. George T. Juckes, who has removed from Birmingham to St. Martin's Court, W.C., sends his Catalogue 190. It contains a collection, made by Thackeray, of pamphlets of the French