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 338 NOTES AND QUERIES. [w s. iv. OCT. 21. type, appeals to the book-lover and the scholar. No worry with note or illustration attends the reader. A useful glossary and a list of characters are supplied, and the rest consists of an unadul- terated text as legible as it can be. The absence of gilt edges, which some will regard as a drawback, has its advantages, since the delicate leaves can be separated without difficulty, and the cloth covering has some of the flexibility of limp morocco. In most respects the new edition is ideal. Index Catalogue of the Woodiide District Library. (Glasgow, MacLehose & Co.) THIS catalogue of the Woodside District Library is a scientific and admirably constructed work by the study of which intending compilers of similar works may profit. Especially noteworthy is the manner in which readers are referred to information bearing on authors or subjects. In the case of a library of moderate dimensions, like the present, such aids to study are conceivable. In that of larger collections of books they are scarcely to be hoped. A Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming. Compiled by Frederick Jessel. (Longmans & Co.) To Mr. Jessel, whose name is familiar in our columns, the compilation of this work has been a labour of love. With commendable diligence he has arranged in alphabetical order between seventeen and eighteen hundred works or articles on cards and gaming. Something is naturally drawn from out columns, to which Mr. Julian Marshall contri- buted many admirable articles. No fewer than eighteen pages are devoted to the works of Edmond Hoyle. Mr. Jessel invites corrections and addi- tions, and also suggestions towards a contemplated bibliography on similar lines of French works on gaming. Books on card tricks, and conjuring tricks in which cards are employed, come within his scope; and he also takes note of plays which, like 'The Basset TaMe' of Mrs. Centhvre, and 'A Quiet Rubber' (' Une Partie de Piquet'), translated by Charles Coghlan, contain important scenes of gambling. Among these we may suggest ' The Masqueraders' of Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the third act of which haa a very powerful scene of the sort. The only improvement we can recommend is more cross-references and greater exactness in the index. In most cases the indications are the result of personal observation, though some of the books of which descriptions are given are now untrace- able. Congregational Historical Society Transactions. Vol. II. No. 3. September. (Congregational Union, Memorial Hall.) AT the annual meeting it was reported that the Rev. G. L. Turner had transcribed the whole of the documents in the Public Record Office relating to the Indulgence of 1672. The contents of this num- ber include ' Robert Browne's Ancestors and De- scendants,' by the Rev. F. I. Cater, in which he makes reference to the researches of the late Mr. Justin Simpson, the results of which were pub- lished in ' N. 4 Q.,' 7th S. iv., v. ' The Brownista in Amsterdam,' by the Rev. T. G. Crippen, gives a list of marriages contracted by the English dwelling at Amsterdam from 1398 to January, 1617. These are 118 in number, and it is of interest to note the occupations of the men: thirty-four are described as bombazine workers, six are tailors, four glovere, three masons, two painters, two schoolmasters, one physician, one compositor, kc. The Rev. G. Lyon Turner writes on ' Welsh Nonconformity in 1672'; and Mr. Edward Cleal on ' The Church of the Pilgrim Fathers,' being an examination of the claims of the church in Old Kent Road, formerly in Union Street, Southwark, to that designation. * S'on- conformity in Trowbridge,' by Mr. V. Scamell, is the subject of another paper; and Mr. Crippen continues his valuable ' Early Nonconformist Biblio- graphy.' We wish all success to this useful (Society, ana regret to read that the membership hat de- creased, the new accessions not making up for losses sustained. We are surprised to find tint there are only 160 members on the roll. Congre- gationalists should see to this. Nelson's Homeland. By James Hooper. (The Homeland Association.) To "The Homeland Pocket-Books" baa been added a volume on ' Nelson's Homeland,' the appearance of which is opportune. It is admirably written by our contributor Mr. James Hooper, and constitutes a delightful and portable guide to the spots on the East Coast which patriotic Englishmen are on the point of visiting. A portrait of Nelson, aft*r Beechey, makes a capital frontispiece ; a second is supplied of the hero as a midshipman ; a map is given; and designs by Mr. Walter Dexter of Hunstanton, Brancaster, Burnham, and Wells-next- the-Sea, makes the book ideal. What Kelson Said, compiled by Hugh Stokes (Caxton Press), is a cheap, well-printed, and season- able little volume. Sky-High : a Flight of Fancy for Children (Ront- ledge & Sons) is a set of three coloured and thirty- one other plates, designed by MISR Dorothy Furni». This earliest of Christmas works displays cleverness and quaint invention, and is a capital gift-book fur children. OF the "Standard Oxford Editions" of Mr. Frowde, now developing into an attractive and valuable series, the following are in the press: 'Browning's Poems, 1833-63,' with portrait; King*- ley's ' Westward Ho !' illustrated ; and ' Cowper'i Poems,' with portrait. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.—OCTOBER. MR. D. CADNEY, of Cambridge, has a collection of Autograph Letters in 2 vols. 4to, including those of the Duke of Cambridge, Princess Augusta, Wil- berforce, Gladstone. Wellington, and Lamartine, 201.; a collection of 200 Theatrical Portrait!!, 51. 5«.: Green's 'Short History of the English People. 4 vols., &. 17*. 6d.; and Rowlandson's •Wart- minster Election,' 1784, 30*. There are also inter- esting items under America, Australia, 4c. Mr. Alfred Cooper, of Hammersmith, ha* a wt of the Palseontographical Society Publication!. 1848 SX), 157. ; Roberta's ' Holy Land,'*/. (publUfced at 4&.): and The Edinburgh Revietc, 1802-70, 31. for the 132 vols. half-russia. The catalogue contain' over 1,100 items, mostly popular books at lav prices. Messrs. Ellis have sent us Part I. (A—Hoar*) rf their Catalogue of British and American Book- plates, from the collection of the lat« Sir Augtutn* Wollaston Frank). By the terms of his will be lef: