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NOTES AND QUERIES. no s. XL JAN. ie, urn.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JANUAKY.

THE ' Hand - Katalog der neueren deutschen Literatur, 1908-9,' published by Mr. W. Muller of 16 Grape Street. New Oxford Street, is a specimen of 'that admirable arrangement of books in which the Germans excel. The Catalogue runs to over a thousand pages, and the table of contents, to which an Index is added at the back, is sufficient to indicate the wide scope of the books offered, which are in satisfactory bindings. The prices we have examined are very reasonable.

Mr. C. Richardson's Manchester Catalogue 56, contains under America Humboldt and Bonpland's 'Atlas Pittoresque,' Paris, 1810, 51.; also Stattbrde's ' Geographicall and Anthologicall Description of all the Empires in this Terrestriall Globe,' 1618, having bound in the same volume Botero's ' Briefe De- scription of the Whole World,' 1617, and two other works, 1612-18, 15/. Under Arabic are two lexicons Bodger's, 21. 2s., and Lane's, 4/. 4*. Milton col- lectors will find the 'Doctrine of Discipline and Divorce,' and other pamphlets, 1642-54, in one volume, old calf, LV. 15s. General items include five volumes of the Pickering Diamond Classics, II.; "The Badminton Library, 28 vols., 51. 5s.; Cun- ningham's 'Nell Gwyu,' first edition, 1852, It. 4.?.; "The Delphin Classics," 141 vols., 1819-30, U. 10s.; Landor's Works, 8 vols., half -calf, 51. 10s.; Grosart's -edition of Spenser, 9 vols., large paper, 4/. 17s. 6d.; 'The Paston Letters,' 6 vols., 21.; and Motley's ' United Netherlands,' 4 vols., 31. There is a good list under Dialects.

Messrs. Suckling & Co.'s Catalogue of Engraved Portraits contains several of the Bonaparte family, including Napoleon's father, mother, brothers, and sisters, the Chevalier d'Eon, Edward FitzGerald, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Leigh Hunt, " Stella," "L. E. L.," Humphry Lloyd, Nelson, Milton by Marshall, Mrs. Piozzi, Pope, Sir William Overenc! Priestley (the husband of Lady Priestley, whose interesting book of reminiscences we noticed last week), Richard Rawlinson, the antiquary, Rousseau (printed in colours, with view of his tomb), Mrs. Sheridan, Albert Smith, Sydney Smith, and Hester Tra- descant and her son (she drowned herself, it is said, because she was compelled to give up the family collection at Lambeth to Elias Ashmole). There is also a mezzotint of Samuel Rogers' s break- fast table by Mottram from a painting by John Doyle. The price of this is 21. 2s. (published at
 * Sl, 8s.).

Messrs. Henry Young Sons of Liverpool send us their Catalogue CCCXCVIL, containiiig the first editions of ' Paradise Lost ' and ' Regained,' also ' Samson Agonistes.' They are perfect copies in old calf, each enclosed in specially made case, morocco, silk lined, 1669-71, 62/. 10s. A copy of the first illustrated edition of these poems, 1688, is 6/. 6s. ; a set of Milton, including his prose \vorks, edited by Todd and Symmons, 14 vols., full russia, 1806-9, 9/. 9s. ; and Mitford's edition, 8 vols., full bound levant by Zaehnsdorf, 1863, 9^. 10s. Under Kelms- cott Press is the Chaucer, margins uncut, as issued, Wl. ; also Morris's ' The Water of the Wondrous Isles,' 1897, 61. 6s. There is a fine set of Todd's ' Spenser,' 8 vols., large paper, full morocco. 1805, 111. 11s. Under Stevenson is the Pentland Edition, 20 vols., IW. 10s. The first edition of 'The Task,' 1782, and of 'John Gilpin,' 1785, 2 vols., full levant

by Riviere, are SI. 8s. Other entries comprise a set of Chalmers's ' Poets,' 21 vols., full morocco coeval binding, 1810, 15/. 15s. ; Edition de Luxe of George Meredith, 32 vols., 1896-8, 15/. ; and Ackermann's edition of ' Dr. Syntax,' full tree calf, 1820-21, "1. 15s. Under Liverpool is a collection of 542 pamphlets, made by Dr. Dawson, in 25 vols., 1710-1861, 201.

' FAIRBAIRN'S BOOK OF CRESTS ' will be reissued immediately by Messrs. Jack. As this standard work has always been somewhat costly, it is good news to many that, with numerous revisions and additions, it will be obtainable at a moderate price. It contains no fewer than 5,000 engravings and 30,000 entries.

THE text of the laws of Ho\vel the Good is about to be published by the Oxford University Press, under the title of ' Welsh Medieval Law.' A thirteenth-century MS. in the British Museum, the oldest and best of its class, is reproduced, with translation, introduction, appendix, glossary index, and map by Mr. A. W. Wade-Evans. The book is intended primarily for the student of ths political history of Wales, but will probably interest a larger public.

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F. Anticipated 10 S. x. 247.

MAJOR CUTHBERTSON ("I shall journey through this world but once"). This has been exhaustively discussed in ' N. & Q.' ; see 8 S. ix. 169, 239 ; xi. 118.

CORRIGENDUM. Ante, p. 35, col. 1, 11. 11 and 15 from foot, for " Bandy Leg Lane" read Bandy Leg Walk.

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