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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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-of Waterloo by an officer. Under Art we find Audsley's 'Practical Decorator,' complete in the 15 parts, folio, 30*. ; Furni val's ' Leadless Decorative Tiles,' 38*. 6d. ; and Dawe's 'Life of Morland,' 1807, .38-. Under Biography are many items of interest, also under Genealogical, History, and Illustrated Books. Under Topographical are a large number of entries, and under Voyages and Travels are many interesting books, including Hawkes's account of Commodore Perry's expedition to the China Seas .and Japan in 1852-4. Washington, 1856, 42$. ; and Pinkerton's ' Collection of Voyages,' 17 vols., 4to, 1808-14, 31. 13*. 6d.

Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co.'s list of books on Philology and Egyptology, to which we made reference on 19 May, contains 770 items, and of these no fewer than 135 are devoted to the philo- logical publications of that indefatigable worker Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte. We well remem- ber him when he was collecting materials for these, -and with what earnestness and quiet enthusiasm he laboured. Messrs. Sotheran truly state that these publications are " the fruit of the whole devotion of a fortune and a life to the cause of science." The general entries include Bell's ' Visible Speech,' 4to, 1867, Is. (the author was the iather of Alex. Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone) ; a large-paper copy of the publications of the Oriental Translation Fund, 22 vols. 4to and .32 vols. 8vo, very scarce, 1832-46, Ul. 14*. ; Layamon's * Brut,' 3 vols., Soc. Antiq., 1847, \l. 11*. 6d. ; Bos worth's ' Anglo-Saxon Dictionary,' 1838, II. Is. ; Bunsen's ' Egypt's Place in Universal History,' translated by Cottrell and Birch, 1848-67, 41. 10*.; a subscriber's set to 1903 of the Egypt Exploration Fund's Publications, 221. 10*. : ' English Dialect Dictionary,' complete to Part 20, 81. 8s. ; English Dialect Society's Publications, 1873-96, III. 11*. ; Soeiete des Anciens Textes Francais, 24 vols. and 28 parts, 1875-92, 9. 9*.; Cleasby's 4 Icelandic-English Dictionary,' completed by Vig- iusson, 1874, II. 18*. 6d. (the only Icelandic-English dictionary in existence) ; and Littre"'s ' Diction- naire,' 1874-81, 31. 10*.

Mr. Albert Sutton, of Manchester, includes in liis Catalogue 141 'The Antiquarian Repertory,' 1807-9, 3. 3*. Under America is Morgan and O'Callaghan's ' Documentary History of the State of New York,' Albany, 1849-50, 3 vols., II. 16*. Among Reports and Society Publications are British Association, 1831 - 98, 10Z. ; Cavendish, 1848-71, 51. ; Chetham, 1840-1904, 168 vols., 24. ; Naval Architects, 1860-1900, 44 vols., 281. ; a fine
 * set of the Powys-Land Club, 1868-98, 181. 10*. ; and

Cumberland and Westmorland, 1877 - 1900, 2W. Under Dickens are ' Bleak House,' first edition, in parts, 1852-3, II. Is.; and 'Edwin Drood,' original parts, 6*. Fraser's Magazine, complete, 1830-82, half-calf, 106 vols., is 241.; Historical Manuscripts Commission, 72 vols., 121.; a set of Hood's 'Comic Annual,' 1830-39, 10 vols., 4J. 4*. ; Illustrated London News, 1842-99, 116 vols., 10?.; Punch, 1841-1904, 221. ; Farmer and Henley's 'Slang Dic- tionary,' 7 vols., 11. Is. ; Ormerod's ' Cheshire,' 1882, 6J. 6*. ; and ' Bibliographica,' 3 vols., 1895-97, 31.

Mr. Thomas Thorp, of Reading, has Burton's


 * Arabian Nights,' original issue, 151. ; Coleridge's


 * Poems,' second edition, 1797, 21. 2.*.; Doran's

1813, 31. 15*. : Home's ' Orion,' fine copy, 21*. (it will be remembered that Home published this at one farthing, to show his contempt of a public who would not buy poetry) ; a copy of Laud's Prayer Book, first issue, Robert Young, Edinburgh, 1636, 9/. 9*. ; London's Magazine of Natural History, 1829-36, 30*.; Marmontel's '(Euvres completes,' Paris, 1818, 18 vols., 31. 10*. ; Monstrelet's 'Chronicles,' 5 vols. 4to, 4/. 10*.; ' Musgrave's Obituary prior to 1800,' Harleian Society. 1899, 4:1. 4*. ; Stephens's 'Old Northern Runic Monu- ments,' 4 vols., 61. 6*.; Whitaker's 'Ducatus Leodiensis,' rare, 1816, 4. 4*. : Richards's ' History of Lynn,' 2 vols., royal 8vo, 1812, 26*. ; Vanity Fair, vols. i. to x., 1868-74, 21. 10*. : and Rowlandsou's ' Military Adventures of Johnny Newcombe,' original boards, uncut, 1816, 35*., and ' The Pleasures of Life,' 1807, 30*. Among interesting Napoleon items is Fournier's 'DictionnairePortatif de Bibliographic,' Paris, 1805, 61. 6s. This was Napoleon's own copy, and has his monogram surmounted with crown and laurel leaf repeated five times on the book, while gold centres on the side contain the eagle, crown, cross of the Legion of Honour, &c. It is bound in fine old French mottled calf.

Mr. James Tregaskis has a catalogue of original drawings and studies by artists of the English School. We note a few out of the five hundred items : Burne-Jones, ' King Arthur's Armour,' 16gs. ; Birket Foster, * The Deserted Village,' 25gs. ; Gainsborough, ' A Woodland Scene,' lOgs. ; Goodall, a quarter - length portrait of Queen Victoria, drawn at Windsor Castle on her late Majesty's eightieth birthday, 15gs. ; Hogarth's 'Harlot's Progress,' <fec., twelve pieces, lOgs. ; Landseer, ' A Dead Woodcock,' 5gs. ; MacWhirter, 'In the Rhone Valley,' 14gs. ; Millais, 'A Boy Sleeping,' 6gs. ; Orchardson, ' Her Mother's Voice,' 9gs. : Rossetti, ' Girl tying up Miseltoe, 24gs. ; Clarkson Stanfield, 'A Windmill, 12gs. ; and Tenniel, Punch cartoon on the death of the Duke of Clarence, lOgs.

Mr. W. Ridler's Catalogue 408 contains Burton's ' Arabian Nights,' Kamashastra Edition, 12 vols. ; some interesting classical books ; and some of Buck's large views, including five of London. But the main feature is the collection of Bacon's works, including the first complete edition in Latin (Frankfort, 1665) and the first in English (4 vols., 1730) ; Spedding's masterly edition of 1861, 7 vols. ; a large copy of the 'Essays,' 1632; and first editions of the 'Advancement of Learning,' a fine copy, 1605 : ' Historie of Henry the Seventh,' 1622 ; ' H'istoria Vit^e et Mortis,' 1623; and ' Sylva Sylvarum,' 1627. Bacon's Latin works are not now commonly met with, even in modern editions, and this collection is of great interest.

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P. JENNINGS ("Party Names"). For Conserva- tive see 8 th S. vi. 61, 181 ; vii. 356 ; xi. 494 : 9 th 8. iv. 333 ; viii. 489 ; ix. 478 ; xi. 307 ; for Liberal, 8 th S. v. 168, 272, 490 : for Radical, 7 th S. v. 228, 296 ; vi. 137, 275, 415 ; vii. 32, 218.

D. M., Philadelphia. Anticipated ante, p. 316.