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for Somersetshire, contain references to printed trials for those counties. No search for material for such a subject is complete without consulting the numerous cata- logues of Thomas Thorp, the bookseller, who was in Piccadilly in the forties. The value of Thorp's catalogues lies in the very intelli- gent way in which they were compiled, and in the extensive stock to which they had reference. Mrs. Lynn Linton's ' Witch Stories ' and Joseph Glanvill's ' Sadducismus Triumphatus,' 1681, contain many narratives, as MB. GEBISH is probably already aware.

For Scotland Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe compiled a ' Bibliography of Witchcraft,' which is appended (pp. 255-262) to his ' Historical Account of the Belief in Witch- craft in Scotland.' Mr. John Ferguson has also contributed to the Edinburgh Biblio- graphical Society (vol. iii. p. 37-124) ' Biblio- graphical Notes on Witchcraft in Scotland.' 'The Miscellany of the Abbotsford Club,' vol. i., 1837, contains a list of trials for witchcraft. Sir Walter Scott was much interested in the subject, and on p. 122 and onwards of the printed catalogue of the Abbotsford Library will be found references to a number of books and pamphlets on witchcraft. It should be remembered, too, that Pitcairn's ' Criminal Trials ' contains a large number of reports of witchcraft trials in Scotland. Two American biblio- graphers have devoted time to the biblio- graphy of the subject as existing chiefly in their own country ; see Mr. G. H. Moore's ' Bibliographical Notes on Witchcraft in Mass., U.S.A.,' 1888, and George Lincoln Burr's ' Witch Persecutions ' (with biblio- graphy), 1897. Adams's 'Witch, Warlock, and Magician ' contains an outline of the bibliography of the subject generally (pp. 378-428). A. L. HUMPHREYS.

For English witchcraft books the best works to consult are Watt's ' Bibliotheca Britannica,' Lowndes's ' Manual,' and Haz- litt's ' Collections.'

The following bibliographies of witchcraft may also prove useful to MB. GEBISH :-

Grasse ( J. G. T. ) Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica. Leipzig, 1843. There is an interesting copy of this book in the Greenwood Library at Manchester, con- taining many additions in the handwriting of the Rev. Walter Begley.

Hauber (E. D.) Bibliotheca acta et scripta magica. Grundhche Nachrichten und Urtheile von solchen Buchern und Handlungen, welche die Macht des leufels in leiblichen Dingen betreffen. Lemgo, l/38-4o. 3vols.

Ferguson (J. ) Bibliographical notes on the witch- crait literature of Scotland. 1897. 40 copies re- printed from vol. iii. of the Edinburgh Bibliog. Soc

Sharpe (C. K.) A historical account of the belief in witchcraft in Scotland. London, 1884. Pp. 25.3- 262. Bibliography.

Adams (W. H. D.) Witch, warlock and magician. London, 1889. Pp. 378-428. Literature.

Winsor (Justin) The literature of witchcraft in New England. Worcester, Mass., 1896. From Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc. 1895.

Burr (G. L. ) The literature of witchcraft. In the Papers of the Amer. Hist. Assoc. iv., 1890. Pp. 237-66.

Burr (G. L.) A witch-hunter in the bookshops. In Bibliographer, i. 1902. Pp. 431-46.

Moore (G. H.) Notes on bibliography of witch- craft in Massachusetts. Worcester, Mass., 1888. Separately printed from Proc. of Amer. Antiq. Soc. N.S., v., 1889. Pp. 245-75.

Martin (E.) Histpire des monstres depuis 1'anti- quit6 jusqu'a nos jours. Paris, 1880. P. 385, Arc. Bibliographic des livres sur les demons et les sorciers.

Maiden (P. de) De la sorcellerie et les livres de sorcellerie. In Bulletin du Bibliophile, Serie VII. Paris, 1845. Pp. 327-37.

Rosenthal (J.) Kataloge, 31-35. Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica. Muncheii. Pp. 296-315. Witchcraft.

Yve-Plessis (R.) Essai d'une bibliographic francaise de la sorcellerie. 1900.

OLIVER J. SUTTON.

323, Great Clowes Street, Manchester.

MB. GERISH should consult the ' Biblio- graphy of Bibliographies ' of Mr. W. P. Courtney. A copy of this very useful book is to be found on a shelf in the Museum Reading-Room. EDWARD SMITH.

MACNAB LEGEND (10 S. xi. 208, 375). In Miss Macnaughtan's tale ' The Fortune of Christina M'Nab ' there is a short, but admirable description of the feud between the Clan Neish and the M'Nabs :

"The M'Nabs had been across the hills to the town for their winter provisions, when the Clan Neish overtook them in numbers that could not be gainsaid, and they fought all that day till they were sore spent, and many of the red tartans were lying on the ground. And when they came back to their castle and the old chief they were a very small band indeed, and all the provisions were gone. When the old chief heard about it he said nothing at all, and the womenfolk came and bound up the wounds of their lads, and they were all for reveng- ing themselves upon the Clan Neish. But the old chief never gave them the word to fight : so they fretted and nursed their wounds till far on into the winter, when the days were short. And at last one night the old chief rose up in his place -the night was mirk and stormy, and the hills were covered with snow he rose up and went to the door and looked out into the darkness, and then he said quite slowly, ' The nicht was the nicht, if the lads were the lads.' They needed no second bidding, for they had been impatient for long and long, and they wanted no other word from the chief; but they got their great boat which lay in the loch, and they put their strong shoulders to it and carried that boat right over to the far loch, which is the loch of the Neishes. They launched her at the