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the traditional reputation of the popular king as a teacher and promoter of learning which led to this collection of folk - saws being fathered on his memory. Some judicious notes, explanatory and literary, with a glossary, make this a complete edition of an old English classic.

FOR the traveller who likes a volume weighty in matter, but not in avoirdupois, we recommend in "The World's Classics" (Frowde) Leigh Hunt's The Town ; Great Expectation*, with some new and able illustrations by Mr. Warwick Goble; and George Herbert's Poems, all great books in their way beyond the reach of the cavilling Zoilus. In the same series we have a specially slender issue ,<" intended for holiday-makers") of Aristophanes in English Verse, by J. H. Frere ; Home's New Spirit of the, Age, an interesting critical summary of some immortal and some forgotten figures which is well worth reading ; and Margaret Catchpole, which Mr Shorter describes in his Introduction as " the

classic novel of Suffolk." It is a novel with de- cided "longueurs"; still it has now an historic interest.

ON the 3rd inst. The Cornish and Devon Post

celebrated its jubilee, and its special page gives pictures of Mr. Richard Bobbins, now a nona- genarian, and his son Mr. Alfred F. Robbins. Both are well known for contributions to our columns. The former is probably the oldest contributor which ' N. & Q.' now possesses, and the latter's third son,

Clifton, who belongs to the select ranks of scholar- ship, is, we dare say, the youngest. Mr. Alfred Robbins is well known as the London correspondent of The Birmingham Daily Post. His father s remi- niscences, some of which we print to-day (pp. 137-8), go back to the time when he worked as a boy with Mr. Thomas Eyre, the printer of The Reformer, a local paper which first appeared in 1832.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

MB. EDWARD BAKER, of Birmingham, has in his List 242 much of interest under Americana. Auto- graph letters include those of Payne Collier, Glad- stone William Morris, Tennyson, Rossetti, Burne- ., Tones, and others. There is a first edition of 'LaveiiTO,' 1851, II. Is.; also of 'The Romany Rye,' 1857, 21. 12s. Qfl. Under Burns is the ' Cale-

doni'an Musical Museum,' containing over 200 songs, 12mo calf, 1809, 11. 15s. There are many entries

i under Chapbooks, and a large number under

Cruikshank's Illustrations, including 'The Comic Almanack.' The list under Dickens contains a volume of plays, among which are ' Nicholas Nicklebv,' 'Oliver Twist,' one by Planche, &c.,

Chapman & Hall nd. (1839), 3f. 3s.;, and 'The Dickensian,' edited by B. W. Matz, 2 vote., 15s. (vol. i. is in parts, and out of print ; vol. ii. in cloth). Sheridan items include the rare first edition of ' The Rivals,' 1775, 151. 15s. There is a copy of Edward FitzGerald's ' Literary Remains,' first

-edition, 3 vols., 1889, 21. 2s.; and there are lists under Costume, Thackeray, Tennyson, Shelley, Leech, Kipling, &c. Altogether there are nearly three thousand entries in this varied and interesting

catalogue.

Mr. C. Richardson sends from Manchester his Catalogue 50, which contains many interesting works on America. There are also many works -.under Art. Under Botany is a copy of London's

'Arboretum,' 8 vols., 1854, 12/. The coloured-plate books include ' Dr. Syntax,' 3 vols., royal 8vo, original cloth, 21. 10s.; and Nicholson's 'Wars occasioned by the French Revolution,' folio, calf, 1816, 31. 10s. The general portion comprises the Library Edition of Froudes 'England/ 12 vols., cloth, 4L 151. ; Darwin's ' Animals and Plants,' If. Is.; Grote's 'Greece,' 12 vols., II. 15s.; Hallam's Works, Cabinet Edition, 10 vols., II. 10s.; and Lamb's Works, edited by Ainger, 6 vols., 11. 10s. Under Ornament we find Pugin's 'Glossary,' 4to, 1846, 31. 3s. Hogg's 'Life of Shelley,' 2 vols., Moxon, 1858, is 11. 5s. ; and Wright's ' House of Hanover,' 2 vols., 1849, 11. 10s.

Mr. A. Russell Smith's Catalogue 58 is devoted chiefly to Old English Literature. There are also Acts of Parliament of Henry VIII. , Philip and Mary, and Charles II., and an extraordinarily large and clean copy of the Black Acts of 1566-8, 101. 10s. Almanacs range from 1633 to 1771. Americana in- clude a series of twenty Proclamations of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts, 1812-65, in clean condition, 71. 10. A manuscript on vellum, four- teenth century, is 201. A rare book is 'Corre- spondence between Queen Victoria and Louis Philippe,' 12mo, 21. 10s. These letters were dis- covered at the Tuileries in the secret portfolio of the ex-King after his flight from Paris, Feb. 24th, 1848. Only one copy seems to have occurred for public sale. There is an English-Dutch Grammar, 12mo, Amsterdam, 1675, U. 10s. It describes various amusements and sports, and in reference to tobacco-taking states that in many shires in Eng- land children are sent to school with a pipe of tobacco for their breakfast. A curious book is ' A True Relation of the late Great and Terrible Tem- pest of Thunder and Lightning that fell on the House of Mr. Edward Smith in Piccadilly, also of a Great Storm at Mile End where the Devil Ap- peared,' 4to, 1664, 21. 2s. Under Trials are ' The Tyburn Chronicle' and 'The Newgate Calendar,' tree-marbled calf, a fine set, 14 vols., 1824, 131. 10s.

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WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately, nor can we advise correspondents as to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them.

D. J. ("Oliver Cromwell's Head"). Manyarticle on this subject have appeared in ' N. & Q.' See 1 S. v. 275, 304, 354, 382 ; xi. 496 ; xii. 75 ; 2 S. vii. 495 ; viii. 97, 158, 218 ; xii. 224, 278 ; 3 S. v. 119, 178, 264, 305 ; 5 S. ii. 205, 240, 466 ; iii. 27, 52, 126, 273, 357 ; x. 277.

W. G. ("The Extinction of Light"). Too scien tific for our pages.

A. M., Boston, U.S. Your idea is correct. Bream's Buildings are E.G., Chancery Lane is W.C.

J. B., Sheffield. We do not undertake to answer queries in astronomy or science generally.

CORRIGENDA. Ante, p. 105, col. 2, 1. 22 from foot, and p. 106, col. 1, 1. 12 from foot, for " canto ii." read canto xi.