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 454 NOTES AND QUERIES, no* s. iv. DEC. 2, ivs. W. J. Loftie's ' History of London,' 1883, i. 345, it is stated that at Hackney some remains of works might still be seen " not long ago." The work at Tyburn Road was •close to what is now Rathbone Place. Castle Street may possibly commemorate another work. On the west a large earthwork, long known as " Oliver's Mount," is now represented by Mount Street, Grosvenor Square. See Lieut.-Col. W. Q. Ross's 'Military Engineering during the Great Civil War,' 1888, in the ' Professional Papers of the Corps •of R.E.,' pp. 122, 123, and plans vi., xii., and xiii. A fragment of a mound or bulwark may still be seen at Oxford between Wad ham College and the River Cherwell. It divides, unless I mistake, the cricket grounds of Ealliol and Merton Colleges the one from the other. A. R. BAYLEY. For an account of the earthworks thrown up round Cambridge Castle, see a paper by Prof. Hughes in Proceedings of_ the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, vol. viii. p. 197, &c. He gives measurements of the ramparts and ditches made by Bowtell in 1802. W. M. P. PRINTED CATALOGUES OF PUBLIC LIBRABIES (10th S. iv. 388).—The Library of St. Andrews University has a printed catalogue of its books up to the beginning of last century. For some years past a special staff has been -engaged in preparing a printed catalogue for Edinburgh University Library. The Carnegie Public Library, Edinburgh, has printed cata- logues of both its lending and its reference section. The utility of this form of catalogue is obvious. Probably the expenditure has prevented it from being generally adopted. W. B. St. Andrews. KOM OMBO asks what public libraries have printed their catalogues, though apparently it is only with regard to national libraries that he seeks information. The number of public libraries in this country alone—i.e., libraries established under the Public Libraries Acts—amounts to several hundreds. Up to the year 1900, according to ' The British Library Year-Book,' edited by Thomas Greenwood, 1900, some 400 towns and districts had •adopted the Acts. Some of these 400 towns and districts have more than one public library — Hammersmith, for instance, has three. Most of these public libraries print catalogues of their lending departments, and it would be useful if these catalogues were placed in the libraries in other districts and made available to readers, who might then learn where to find any special book they are seeking. Unfortunately, where these_ cata- logues are exchanged, they are kept in the private rooms of the librarians, and readers do not know of their existence. Some of these libraries have printed cata- logues of their "reference" departments, which contain the more valuable, scarce, or exclusive books, besides special collections of local or other books. In the Kensington Public Library, for instance, there is an Oriental Library collected by the late Sir Richard Burton. More often, however, these referencelibraries are restricted to manuscript or card catalogues. Yet it is specially impor- tant that it should be made known to readers outside where these particular hooks are. But the limitation of the penny rate is made the excuse for the parsimonious economy. There are some libraries not exactly public which print catalogues, such as the great learned societies and institutions. The cata- logue of the library of the Royal Geographical Society, for instance, is a volume of 833 pagea, which is most useful for bibliographical pur- poses, apart from actual reference to the library. Such a catalogue as this (it costs only 2s. 6d.) should be in every public library in London, and in the principal ones in the provinces. Thus the London Library recently published its catalogue in a bulky volume at 30s., and though this is a pro- prietary institution, the catalogue is useful for general reference. If only these " books which are not books," these literary guide- posts, were in the various local libraries, they would much facilitate the work of students. Probably application to the Secretary of the Library Association, 20, Hanover Square, W., would elicit what local libraries print catalogues of their lending and reference departments. FREDK. A. EDWAEDS, F.R.G.S. EVANS : SYMONDS : HERING : GARDEN (10* S. iv. 328, 397).—I should be inclined to think that the word read by MR. MARTIN as " Garden or Gordon" is really " Gosden.' The name of Thomas Gosden is well known to amateurs of angling literature, as he col- lected a large library of books on the subject, many of which were bound and symbolically tooled by himself, and also issued a series of illustrations to Walton and Cotton's ' Complete Angler.' W. F. PRIDKAUX. SPLITTING FIELDS OF ICE (10th S. iv. 325, 395).—MR. MASEFIELD'S thoughts on frost are individual and stimulating. It were well, however, if he could be a little more explicit