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. iv. NOV. is, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 419 PROF. C. H. FIRTH, in The Scottish Historical, Review (Glasgow, MacLehose & Sons), tells the story, so far as it is at present known, of a duel fought, soon after the Restoration, between the second Earl of Southesk and the Master of Gray, the latter of whom was killed. Few details have been preserved; but the origin of the quarrel seems clear. The office of Sheriff of Forfar was vacant, and both the combatants desired it. The Master of Gray waa the more eligible candidate, as he had all along been loyal to Charles during his exile, while his opponent, then Lord Carnegie, nad been in favour of the Cromwellian union between Scotland and England. The encounter occurred somewhere not far from London. There was a ballad pub- lished at the time, and here reprinted, which states that Bigglesworth. in Bedfordshire, was the scene of the tragedy. The Rev. R. Menzies Fegusson, M.A., contributes an interesting paper on ' Pres- bytery and Popery in the Sixteenth Century." It has been said that after the establishment of the reformed religion in Scotland the persecution of Roman Catholics in that country was of a less- bloody kind than in England. This may be true, and we think it is so, but evidence on the point is both conflicting and scanty. If, however, such cases as those of Lady Livingstone, Lady Cromlix, and Lady Urchill are to be regarded as samples of the manners of the Kirk authori- ties, one cannot avoid coming to the conclusion that if lives were spared they must have been rendered well - nigh unbearable by the meddle- someness of those in authority. We had a notion that all attainable evidence relating to the battle of Killiecrankie had long been in the hands of students. In this we were mistaken, for Mr. A. H. Millar has reproduced, in a translated form, two Celtic ballads written by a Highland poet who was an eyewitness of the victory. The Hon. Vicary Gibbs supplies a review of ' The New Scots Peerage.' It cannot but prove instructive to Englishmen, who are, for the most part, ignorant as to the laws relating to the succession to honours over the Border. The history of the Brooch of Lorn, mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in ' The Lord of the Isles' (II. xi.), is detailed by Mr. Ian Mac- Dougall, and a good woodcut is furnished of the ornament. Its historic associations are enthralling; and, regarded as a work of art only, it is a relic of extreme interest. MB. THOMAS MATTHEWSON, of Lerwick, has issued a aeries of pictorial postcards of the Shetland Isles, taken during the month of October. All of these are picturesque, and some have antiquarian interest. WE read with much gratification the announce- ment that ' The Plays and Poems of Robert Greene' will be JHsned immediately by the Clarendon Press in two volumes, uniform with the Oxford editions of Kyd and Lyly. The editor is Prof. J. Churton Collins, who has spared no pains to make this edition—so far, at least, as the text is concerned- final. In an appendix to 'Orlando Furioso' is given a complete transcript—a section in collotype of B MS. of great interest and importance. The notes have been made as full as possible to illustrate the characteristics of the early Elizabethan drama. To technical knowledge Mr. Churton Collins adds a poetic sympathy and appreciation not commonly encountered. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.—NOVEMBER. MR. B. H. BLACKWELL, of Oxford, has a cata- logue (No. CHI.) of Educational Books, second- hand and new. These include standard school and college editions of Greek and Latin classics, modern history, philology, and theology and Church his- tory. Mr. Francis Edwards issues a fourth part of his American Catalogue. This contains Mexico, Cen- tral America, the West India Islands, and Guiana. The catalogue already runs into over three thousand five hundred items. There are important manu- script documents relating to General Melvill, including his Letter and Order Books, 6 vols., 25Z. Melvill died in 1809, and was the oldest general in the army; he was the inventor of the naval gun known as a "carronade." Details of his corre- spondence are given. Under Mexico we note Lord* Kingsborough's 'Antiquities,' large paper. 9 vols. folio, very scarce, 1830-48, 11W.; und Baxter's- 'Spanish-Colonial Architecture,' 10 vols. royal 4to, 1903, 111. There is a long list under Slavery. Mr. Edwards announces that Parts V. and VI., relating to South America, are in a forward state. Mr. Sydney V. Galloway, of Aberystwyth, has a short list of books in Welsh and relating to Wales. We note a very scarce work, Lloyd's 'History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog,' 6 vols. 8vo, 61. 6s.; the original edition of the 'Mabinogion,' with an Eng- lish translation and notes by Lady Charlotte Guest, large paper, 3 vols., morocco by Bedford, 1847, SI. 8s. ; Powell's 'History of Cambria,' translated by H. Boyd, 1584, 31. 10*. ; and • Red Book of Her- gest,' vol. ii., 'The Text of the Bruts,' edited by John Rhys and J. G. Evans, No. 'J06 of 500 copies. 1890, 11. 10s. Mr. William Glaisher has a supplementary list of Remainders. There are some handsome art folios at 27s. ii''. each, suitable for presents, comprising 'The Landseer Gallery,' 'The Gallery of Old Masters,' • The Gallery of British Sculpture,' and 'The Shakespeare Gallery.' Other items include ' With the Flag to Pretoria,' by H. W. Wilson, &t.; Wood-Martin's 'Elder Faiths of Ireland,' 180 archjeo- logical illustrations, 2 vols., 9*.; Rabelais, 3 vols., Bullen, 17«. 6rf.; Richards's 'Her Majesty s Army,' 45 large coloured plates, 3 vols. 4to, lf>~. ; and Rath- bone Low's ' Her Majesty's Navy,' 3 vols. 4to, 15s. There are a number of French classics. Mr. James Irvine, of Fulham, has a number of Botanical Books and Works on Gardening, including a small remainder of Trimen and Dyer's ' Flora ol Middlesex,' 3s. Grf. The general items include The Antiquarian Magazine, 1882-7, II. 5». ; Lewine's ' Bibliography of Eighteenth-Century Art,' 12«. 6d. (published at 57.5s. net); Sumner's ' The Avon from Naseby to Tewkesbury,' folio, II. Is. (published at 51. 5s.); 'Picturesque Mediterranean,' 11. 2n. Qd. • and the Hundred Best Books, Lubbock's selection.. 11. Is. Messrs. J. & J. Leighton's neatly bound and well- produced catalogue of Early-printed Books, MSS., &c., is of exceptional merit. It contains 1,738 pages, any one of which, if examined, will show the care which has been taken to trace the provenance and history of the volumes. The whole is, in fact, admirably " documente," if we may use a French word for which there is no convenient English equivalent. An admirable snpply of illustrations