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Mr. C. Richardson, of Manchester, in his new list includes ' Victories of the Duke of Wellington,' from drawings by Westall, price 4:1. ; Warburton's

"novels, Cadell, 61. 6s.; and a copy of 'Paracelsus,'
 * Hunting Songs,' Chester, 1834, rare, 81. 8s.; Scott's

2 vols. 4to, cloth, new, 1804, II. There are some interesting items under Yorkshire, including the


 * Dialect of Leeds ' and Robinson's * Glossary.'

Mr. A. Russell Smith's new catalogue is a very interesting one, chiefly of old English literature ; a portion is devoted to Alchemy, Occult Science, Medicine, Surgery, and Witchcraft. There is a first edition of * Hudibras,' 181. The ' Chronique Scanda- leuse ' and Chartier's history of the Pucelle, in 1 vol. 4to, calf, are 31. : Dray ton's * Poems,' John Smeth- wick, 1630, 11. 10s. There are early Woodcuts and Chap-Books. Giles Fletcher's 'Christ's Victorie,' 1632, the rarest of the editions, is 61. 10s. Other items are a ground plan of Leicester Square, 1775. and Mag- nus's ' Le Livre de Bonnes Meurs, ' 1500, 151. Caxton published a translation of this under the title of ' The Book of Good Manners.' This edition was apparently unknown to Brunet, and is very rare. Rathbone's 'Old Wedgwood,' only 200 copies printed, is 10/. 10s. The first edition of the Brownist version of ' The Booke of Psalmes,' compiled by the learned Henry Ainsworth, leader of the sect, ex- tremely rare, 1612, is 61. 6s. There are important items under Shakespeariana. There are also a number of trials and murder narratives, including the ' Tyburn Chronicle,' 14 vols., 131. 10s.

Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co.'s catalogue, dated the 12th inst. , contains, as usual, a number of superior second-hand books. It opens with a complete set of the Royal Society's Transactions, very scarce, 1665-1895, 225/. ; a set of ' The Annual Register,' 1758-1902, 3R 10s.; and a good library set of Archceologia, 281. 10s. Other items are first edition of Gilchrist's k Life of Blake,' II. 6s. ; Cervantes, 1620, very rare, 351. ; a fine collection of old plays, 1720-98, 37L 10s. ; a very choice extra-illustrated copy of Charles Mathews's ' Memoirs,' 521. 10s. ; a choice set of Dickens, with autograph, 351. ; and Entomological Society, complete set, 521. 10s. There is a copy of a volume on French Ornament pre- sented by Horace Walpole to Miss Berry, price -55. The fly-leaf bears the inscription, "Agnes Berry, the gift of Lord Orford." The catalogue contains a rich collection of autographs, including Napoleon and Sir Joshua Reynolds. There is a letter of Wellington's, on military matters, dated from Badajoz, 9 October, 1809, to Marshal Lord Beres- ford : " We all pass the Tagus at Abrantes, which, considering everything, I think the best road for us. I omitted to tell -you that I reviewed the other day the troops of the Garrison of Elvas, and I shall do the same by all the Portuguese troops I shall meet with. The 5th and 17th are really in better order than I expected to see any Portuguese troops

in and their field discipline and manoeuvres by

no means bad, considering the defect of instruction, &c." Autograph collectors will do well to obtain this catalogue.

Mr. Albert Button, of Manchester, has a number of books relating to America, 1705-1896 ; some early Bewicks ; first editions of * Lavengro ' and * The Romany Rye'; a copy of Brandt's 'Stultifera Navis,' 1498, 9. 9s. (a copy fetched a few weeks back YJl. 10s.); and a number of Capt. Burton's works. Other items are interesting coloured plates ; first editions of Thackeray and Dickens, also of

Cruikshank, including ' Sergeant Bell and his Raree Show' (William Tegg attributed this to Dickens, and correspondence in reference to it has appeared in ' N. & Q.'); 'Egypt Explorations,' 10 vols., 1885-94, 61. 10s. ; a set of Fraser, 2tt. : ' The Vicar of Wakefield,' with 32 illustrations by Mulready, Van Voorst, 1843, very scarce, 21. 10s. ; and Quarles's ' Divine Poems,' 1664, II. 12s. 6d. The catalogue is rich in works relating to Lancashire.

Worcestershire': 'Greville Memoirs,' first edition, scarce, 51. 10s. ; Gualter's ' Antichrist,' 12mo, 1556, 31. 15s.; Scudamore's 'Notitia Eucharistica,' 1876, very scarce, II. 12s. 6d. ; Roberts's ' Holy Land,' 51. 5s. ; and 'Arms of Italian Nobles,' Venice, 1578. The catalogue is a good miscellaneous one. There are also several items of interest to collectors of ex-libris.

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E. J. PARKER ("The Hermit in London"). The aook is by Capt. Felix M'Donough, and was pub- ished in 1819.

MEDICULUS ("Dryden's Burial at St. Anne's, Soho "). Articles dealing with the two funerals of Dry den were contributed to the Athenceum of 27 August and 22 October by Mr. W. J. Harvey.

E. P. MERRITT, Boston, U.S. (" False Quantities n Parliament"). Anticipated ante, ID. 418.

H. A. MARTIN ("Poem by H. F. Lyte").-We lave already forwarded to PERTIXAX a full copy of the poem, kindly sent by MR. J. GRIGOR.

CORRIGENDA. Ante, p. 407, col. 1, 11. 11 and 12 from foot, the date of 'Restalrig' should be 1829, and of ' St. Johnstoun,' 1823. " Sir Robert Logan," 11. 7 and 8 from foot, was not a knight, but plain Robert. P. 414, col. 1, 1. 10 from foot, for "1744" read 1722.

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