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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. in. JAN. u, 1905.

value would be a reissue in the same form of the ' Early Diary.' That may not, however, be expected yet awhile. The sixth and last volume will have a general index.

Boawdfs Life of Johnson. 2 vols. (Frowde.) THOUGH announced as in two volumes, and issued in that shape, this admirably cheap and convenient dition of this great classic reaches us in one volume. Two volumes, respectively of 680 and 704 pages, are Toound in one. So fine is, however, the paper that the work can easily be slipped into the pocket and carried with little sense of weight. In a cheap edition such as this we are always disposed to regard portability as a crowning virtue. A man going for a long journey even is safe against dul- ness if he carries with him a book such as this, -which he can at will dip into or study. Portraits of Johnson, each after Reynolds, are given as -frontispieces to the two volumes. Vol. i. repro- duces the title-page to the third edition, which is followed in the text. Boswell's and Malone's adver- tisements to the various early editions are inserted, as is the chronological catalogue of Johnson's prose works. A good index is given in the second volume, and the edition is complete, convenient, and satisfactory in all respects.

The Poetn and the. Poetry of the Nineteenth Century.

Edited by Alfred H. Miles. 3 vols. (Routledge

& Sons.)

IN a form equally pretty and convenient, and at a price which brings them within reach of all, Messrs. Routledge & Sons have supplied a reissue of the encyclopedic work of Mr. Miles upon the poets and poetry of the last century. Three volumes already issued deal with Crabbe to Coleridge, Southey to '.Shelley, and Keats to Lytton the first Lord Lytton, that is. That the remaining volumes, completing the series, will appear we doubt not. The work will then have genuine value to the student, since many of its contents are elsewhere inaccessible.

lialeffhana. Part VI. By T. N. Brushfield, M.D.,

F.S.A.

MANY of our readers will welcome the appearance of a further portion of Dr. Brushfield's 'Ralegh- ana,' reprinted, like the previous parts, from the TraWiartioHS of the Devonshire Association. It furnishes a very valuable bibliographical study of ' The History of the World,' and reproduces the portrait from the third edition, 1617. Happy are those who have kept the successive parts.

A Dictionary of Abbreviations. Contractions,

By Edward Latham. (Routledge & Sons.) Who Wrote That ? By W. S. W. Curson. (Same

publishers.)

Mottoes and Badges. (Same author and publishers.) THESK three serviceable and pretty little volumes have been added to the "Miniature Reference Series" of Messrs. Routledge. They are all useful, some of them specially so. In days in which we are all so unduly hurried we are ourselves often
 * t a loss to know the meaning of abbreviations.

We fancy we have before mentioned the abbre- viation W.L.P. on the title of a book. This meant Wesleyan Local Preacher, and is not given by Mr. Latham, whose book is, however, commendably full. All the works are valuable, and all are as cheap as they are pretty.

MR. E. S. DODOSON, whose synopsis of the Basque verb we mentioned so recently as 24 December last, has sent us an Essai de Traduction Basque de 'Don. Quichotte,' 1 with instructive notes in French. It is printed at Biarritz by Ernest Seitz.

THE forty-first edition of Herbert Fry's Royal Guide to the London Charities, edited by John Lane (Chatto & Windus), an excellent work in its class, appears revised and corrected up to date.

ANTIQUITIES OF YORK. A Committee has been formed to promote an Exhibition of old York Views and Portraits of Local Worthies, to be held in March and April of this year, with a view to arousing interest in the preservation of the many ancient and picturesque buildings in and around the old city, and of illustrating the vast changes that have taken place in the streets, fortifications, &c., during the last two centuries. Possessors of oil paintings, water-colour drawings, engravings, mezzotints, lithographs, pencil drawings, original copper-plates, or photographs of " Old York " or of York worthies, likely to interest tke antiquary, collector, or student, who are willing to lend them for exhibition, are invited by the Executive Com- mittee to communicatewith the honorary secretaries. Dr. Evelyn and Mr. Benson, Exhibition Build- ings, York. Arrangements have been made with the Education Committee of the York Corporation for the collection to be shown in the Exhibition Buildings, and every precaution for the safety and insurance of the exhibits will be taken, and mea- sures adopted to prevent their being photographed or copied without permission from the exhibitors themselves.

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