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'//,< L'ifi- <>f Margaret Godolphin. By John Evelyn.

(De La More Press.)

To the "King's Classics," issued from the new address by the De La More Press, has been added a volume which is fully worthy or its august com- panionship. Nothing is more pleasing than to find that, in the base and corrupt Court of the Stuarts, amid general foulness and contagion, grew up some of the best, godliest, purest, and in every way divinest of English women. One of these is Mar- garet (Jodolphin, who is fit to be placed beside her delightful namesake Margaret Cavendish (n<'< Lucas), Duchess of Newcastle, Dorothy Osborne, and Rachel, Lady Russell. Her life was written by John Evelyn, whose adopted daughter and "inviolable friend" she constituted herself. This memoir was not printed until 1847, when it was issued, with a worthy introduction, now retained, by Samuel Wilberforce (Soapy Sam), Bishop of Oxford. It is now, with some modifi- cations of spelling, &c., reprinted, and, in its new and beautiful garb, constitutes a charming volume, which all students will delight to read, and which makes special appeal to a Christian public. It is indeed a lovely little gift-book. A reproduction of the portrait, from the picture at A\ otton, which is prefixed to the 1847 edition, shows a fair, pensive face, with a high forehead, and constitutes a pleasing addition to the volume.

An Irixh-Engli*h Dictionary. By the Rev. Patrick S. Dinneen, M.A. (Dublin, for the Irish Text Society; London, Nutt.)

THIS Anglo-Irish dictionary is the outcome of a project conceived by the Irish Text Society, which itself is a result of late movements to establish the study of Irish, We are personally unable to turn it to account, but it must be of great assistance to those occupied with Irish studies. It fills some eight hundred pages, and is accompanied by paradigms of the irregular verbs.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

PLENTY of enjoyment is to be found in the perusal of the November catalogues, still more enjoyment when the pocket will admit of pur- chases.

The Chaucer's Head Library catalogue of Mr. \Villiam Downing, of Birmingham, contains collec- tions of Cruikshank, Doyle, Leech ; the Goupil series, bound by Broca and Zaehnsdorf, 31. 10*. ; the first edition of Swinburne's 'Poems and Ballads,' very scarce, Moxon, 1856, 51. 5s.; and an early edition of Shakespeare's ' Poems,' printed for " Bernard Lintott " at the Cross Keys, between the two Temple ( lates in Fleet Street, 51. 5*. The editor states that esteem that several gentlemen have subscribed to a late Edition of his Dramatick Works."
 * ' the writings of Mr. Shakespeare are in so great

Mr. Francis Edwards has two lists one of new remainders, including Budge's ' The Book of the Dead,' offered for 30s. : Brandon's * Gothic Archi- tecture,' 18*. ; Crooke's * Folk - lore of Northern India,' 8s. 6YZ. ; and Burke's ' Colonial Gentry.' Tluj pecond list contains Mrs. Frankau's * Eighteenth- Century Colour Prints'; this is illustrated with lifty-two facsimile reproductions printed in colour, price 14Z. ; the work is now out of print and scarce. There are works on Africa ; a complete set of the

British Association, 72 vols.,7/. ; the J)til>lln !! rl< -, 36 yols., 4/. 10*. (this contains a manuscript list of Dr~ Wiseman's contributions copied from his own list) ;. and Crealock's * Deerstalking in the Highlands of Scotland,' limited edition of 250 copies, 20{. Mr. Edwards has a series of contemporary miniatures of Napoleon and his generals, each, framed in richly decorated gilt frame ; the price for the twelve por- traits is 45i.

Mr. Gadney, of Canterbury, has a number qf works on Art and Architecture, Biography, and Classics. Under the Drama is a set of the ' Thea- trical Pocket Magazine,' 1821-5, 30*. Under English Literature are some first editions of Browning. There are interesting books relating to Kent. Among these we find ' The Kentish Garland/ edited by Julia De Vaynes, with pictorial illustra- tions from the rare originals by our old friend Mr. Woodfall Ebsworth, 2 vols., 21*.

Messrs. George's Sons, of Bristol, take advantage- of the war to issue a War List of Military Litera- ture. This is divided into three parts : 1. Napoleonic Period; 2. Art of War, Land Battles; 3. Naval Matters. There is a MS. of about 250 folios, bound in crimson morocco; the date of it is 1811. The- calculations are based on an expected attack, from four different points, of 160,000 men. The author is so confident that he states that "the most pro- bable way of preventing an invasion would be to send Napoleon an exact account of all your arrange- ments." It is interesting to note that an item in the same catalogue is Dilke's * The British Army/ 1888. The following quotation from the Broad Arrow is given : " We hail Sir Charles Dilke's expose of our utter want of national defences with, extreme satisfaction."

Mr. E. Menken, of Great Russell Street, has a book circular containing much of interest. There- is a copy of the rare * Bibliotheca Chalcographica/ 1650. This work contains "413 brilliant full-page portraits of the learned and prominent men of Europe." A copy of Batty's 'Copper Coinage' is priced 21. 2.s. ; a complete index to all names con- tained in Randle Holme's * Academy of Armorie,' a beautiful vellum MS., 21s. Gel. ; ' Costumes His- toriques de la France,' par le Bibliophile Jacob, 10 vols., 8vo, illustrated with 640 costume plates. Paris, 1830-40, 10/. 10s. ; Crisp's ' Family History, 7 " 9 vols., 11. 15s. ; Meyers ' Konversations-Lexikon,' complete set, 17 vols., 1897, 51. 5*. ; a complete set of

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81. 8s. ; and Ruskin's works, a set of the complete edition, 1897-99, 101. 10*.

Mr. H. H. Peach, of Leicester, opens his list with a valuable MS., Suso's 'Orloge de Sapience/ 42. The author, Henri de Suso, died 1385. Vaughan, ir> his ' Hours with the Mystics,' says that " this book was for the fourteenth century what Thomas ; Kempis * De Imitatione Christi ' was for the fifteenth." The list contains specimens of early printing ; Chapman's Homer, first edition of com- plete ' Iliad,' 10/. 10*.; Drake's 'History of York/ 1736, folio calf, 51. 5*. There are also a number of pamphlets and broadsides, 1680-1800, including 'A Satyr against Coffee/ 1682 ? 10*'. 6d. ; it commences Avoid Satanick Tipple ! hence, Thou murderer of Farthings and of Pence, And Midwife to all false Intelligence.