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a colloquial style have led to " Well !" "you see," and " you know " being interjected more than some reader's will like. "Pelasaunce" at the top ot p. 106 must not be taken for a sham antique, it being a mere misprint for pleaaaunee. " If it had windows it would 'Glazen Hall'" d>. 133) a sen- tence which demands that "be called" should be supplied from the previous sentence is too crabbedly condensed for the young person, or indeed for the old. The book is prettily illustrated.

Williuff* Pre* fluvle and Advertiser's Directory and Handbook for 1907. (Willing. ) WITH undiminished authority, and equally direct appeal 'Willing's Press Guide' puts forth its thirty-fourth annual issue. A more trustworthy guide to the press is not to be hoped.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

THE month of February is evidently a busy one in the old-book trade, and' we hope that by the end of it the booksellers may be able to mark "sold ' against many of the items in their numerous catalogues.

Mr. Thomas Baker's List 506, devoted to Theo- logical Books, includes the library of an Irish priest. Among the items are Bucer's Scripta Anglic-ana, with portrait, stamped vellum, on oak boards, 47. 10*.: Cienfuegos's ' Vita Abscondita,' 1728, folio, original calf, S/. 10*. ; Gallandus's 'Bibliotheca Greeco-Latina Veterum Patrum,' 14 vols., folio, a beautiful set bound in calf, 1765-88, 387.: the Roman Breviary, translated by the Marquis of Bute, 2 vols., 1870. 67/6*.: Quetif et Echard's ' Scrii)tores Ordinis Prsedicatorum,' 1719, a fine copy, 137. 15*.; Mitta- relli et A. Costadoni 'Annales Camaldulensis Ordinis S. Benedict!,' 8 vols. (vol. ix. is missing), folio, vellum, 1775, &c., 3/. 15*. ; Parsons's 'Three Conversions of England,' 3/. 18s. : and Fabn Condones in Evangelia et Festa,' 37. 12*. There are lists under Duns Scotus. Newman, and Ireland. The contrasts in this catalogue are curious : the " Stonyhurst Manuals'' are followed bvStoughton's 'History of Religion in England.' Mr. Baker has also a list of books wanted.

Mr. Alfred Cooper, of Hammersmith, has in his Catalogue 86 a good general list of modern books, well arranged under the various headings of Biography, Travels, <fec. We note a few items: Freeman's 'Norman Conquest.' 7".: Murchison's 'Geology of Russia in Europe.' 37. 15*. : .Towett's 'Dialogues of Plato,' 4 vols., 27. 2*. : Ellis's 'Eng- lish Pronunciation,' 1869, I/. 5*. : Max Miiller's ' Chips from a German Workshop,' 4 vols., II. 10*. ; and Coningt on's 'Virgil,' 11. There are a number of books on the blind and the deaf and dumb. Under Music we note Chorley's 'Music and Manners in France and Germany,' 3 vols., 1844, 8*. Mr. Francis Edwards' s Catalogue 288, a clearance list, contains many items under Africa, Asia Minor, Borneo, Egypt, Japan, &c. The last-named section includes the Transactions and Proceeding of the Japan Society. 1892-1901, 3/. 10*. : and Brinkley's 'Japan and China,' 12 vols.. 1903-4. If. 1(K_ The general portion includes Spedding's 'Bacon, 7 vols., full calf. 3. 15*.; Ackermann's 'Cambridge,' 1810, I/ 2s Hobbes's Works, edited by Molesworth, 16 vols., 1834-45, 37. 6*. : O'Hanlon's 'Lives of the Saints,' 9 vols.. 57.5*.; Kent Archaeological Society's Transactions, 1858-1905, 87. 15*-.; Lamb's Works,

edited by Lucas, 7 vols., 17. 16*. ; Lyt ton's Novels, Edition de Luxe, 32 vols., 97. 9*. : Feasey's 'West- minster Abbey,' 27. 8*. : a set of The Portfolio, 107.; and Prescott's Works. 12 vols., new half-calf, 57. 10*. A complete set of Punch in the original cloth, 1841-1904, 127 vols.. is 187. ; " The Sacred Books of the East," edited by Max Mtiller, vols. i. - xlix. 207. ; and Scott's Works, Cadell's Edition, 90 vols., half green morocco. 15/. There are also conies of the 48- volume and the " Border " editions. Farmer and Henlev's 'Slang Dictionary' is priced at 47. 10*., and Howell's 'State Trials,' at 157.

Mr. Edwards has also a short list of modern remainders. These include ' The Ingoldsbv Legends,'' 4 vols.. If.: ' The Decameron.' translated by Rigg. Chalon's illustrations, If. 6*. ; ' Corot and his Work,' bv Hamel, 37. (only a few remain for sale), Lewis Morgan's 'Ancient Society,' 12*. fr/.; andWalpole's 'Letters,' edited by Peter Cunningham, 9 vols.,.

Mr. A. Fehrenbach, of Sheffield, includes in his Catalogue XL. The Journal of the ArcJweoloffical" Institute* 42 vols., 57. ; Bacon's 'Atlas,' 1905, If. 6*. Gff. ; 24 coloured plates of the lower orders of the Metropolis, 1820, 15*.; Guillim's 'Heraldry,' engravings hand-painted, 1638, 10*. ("the most correct edition," Lowndes) ; Hood's 'Poems,'' 3 vols., Moxon, 1847-8. 17. 7*. : 'La Fontaine,'

2 vols., roval 8vo, 1904. 21. 2*. : " Library of Anglo- Catholic Theology," 1841-67. 80 vols., 37.: Shelley's AVorks, Moxon, '3 vols.. 1847, II. 2*.; Worlidge's 'Antique Gems,' 1823, If. 10*. Waring's ' Master- pieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture.' 1863 3/. 10*. (cost 407.); and 'Old English Manners! 1579-1618,' inedited tracts, "Roxburghe Library" 1868, 10*. 6d,

Messrs. Lupton Brothers, of Burnley, have in their List 91 Burton's 'Arabian Nights.' Benares, 307. : the Architectural Society's ' Dictionary of Architecture,' 1853-92, 9/. 9*.;' The. Anr/Jo-Havon Review. 10 vols.. folio, 47.10*.; Britten's 'Archi- tectural Antimiities.' 1807-14, 37. 10*. ; Bewick, " Memorial Edition," Quaritch, 37. 3*. ; Ormerod s 'Cheshire.' 37. 10*.; 'Encyclopaedia Britannica,' 147. 14*. (Tme*T>riee 34/.) ; Gillray's 'Caricatures' Bohn, 1849. 37. 10*.; Green's ''Short History/

3 vols.. 37. 15*.; Cussans's 'Hertfordshire,' 3 vols., folio, 57. 5*. ; and Lawrence & Bullen's " Italian Classics," 9 vols., III. 11*. There are first editions of Dickens, Lever, Foster's 'Stuarts' (11. 10*.); and Stirling-Maxwell's Works (47. 4*. ).

Mr. A. Russell Smith's Catalogue 55 contains important historical MSS.. being the original rolls of expenses of the French Court. 1553-94. neatly written on 31 mrchment slii>s. each signed bv the Court official, folio, 11. 7*. Bibliography includes 200 catalogues of sales at Sotheby's, 61. Nicolls's Honourable Artillery Company, 1616. is 77. 7* North's 'Fish and Fish-Ponds.' first edition. CurlV 1713, 27. 13/.; John Quarles's 'God's Love and Man's Unworthiness,' 1651. 47. 10*.: and Stow's 'Annales ' folio, black-letter. 1631. 107. 10*. Mr. Smith tells u that the last is probably the best copy ever offered for sale of a book difficult to procure in a really fine state. A copy from the Sander-land Library of ^the ' Testamentum Novum Latinuni,' 1520. is 5/. 5*.; Mores's ' Nomina et Insignia Gen- tilli,' 1749. 57. 5*.: a well-executed heraldic MS., Arms and Genealogies of the Barons from the Conquest to 1606, 542 coats of arms beautifully coloured, folio, circa 1610, 247.; Bacon's 'The