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vols 51. ; Bryan's 'Painters,' 5 vols., 1903-5, 51 5, Carlyle, edited by H. D. Traill, 30 vols., half calf 91 '5s.; 'The Dialect Dictionary, 6 vols., 4to 1 To!'' Times issue of 'The Encyclopaedia Britannia,' 14?. (cost 35?.); Foster's 'Miniature Painters ' 3? 10s. ; Goethe's Works, illustrated Library 'Edition, 14 vols, 6? 6s ; ' Index Library,' 58 parts 4? 10s.; Kipling's Works, complete,
 * 21 vols., 9?. 10s. ; Lecky's Complete Works, 19 vols

half-morocco, 6?. 15-9.; Morris's Works, Kelmscott Press 8 vols., as new, 7?.; the Times issue of Punch, with bookcase, 25 vols., 10?. (cost net cash 23?.) ; and Thackeray, original Library Edition, 24 vols., half- morocco, 13?. 10s.

We have also Catalogue 150 from Messrs. Pitcher. This contains a fine copy of Gillray from the original plates, also the volume of suppressed plates, 3 vols., 1849-51, 7?- 7s. ; and an original set of Punch 111. 10s. Under Cruikshank are 49 draw- ings prepared to illustrate an intended auto- biography, 1?. 5s. Guillim's 'Heraldry 1/24 folio calf, is 4?. 10s.; Burke's Encyclopedia ot Heraldrv ' 1844, 1?. 8s. ; his ' Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies,' 1844, 1?. 15*.', Burney's 'History of Music,' 3?.; Hood's ' Poems ' also ' Wit and Humour,' first editions, 3 vols., Moxon, 1842, 1? 4s the first edition of Thackeray s Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, 9 plates, square 12mo, original cloth, 1849, 5?.; and Waugh's Works, illustrated by Caldecott and other artists, 11 vols., imperial 8vo 1881-3, 4.10s. The subjects include 'Lancashire Sketches, Factory Folks during the Cotton Famine,' Irish Sketches, c Bishop Wordsworth's ' Greece,' first edition, 1839 is 14s. There are many interesting items under Manchester and Yorkshire.

Mr Albert Sutton also sends from Manchester his Catalogue 154, devoted to Military Literature and a few Naval Books. There are several his- torical records of regiments, and Army Lists of 1/94, 1815, and other dates. The books take a wide range, and carry us from Dettingen, the siege of Gibraltar, the Peninsular War, Waterloo, and the Crimea, to the Sudan campaign of 1898 and the South African War A set of The Illustrated London News, 1842-98, in publishers' cloth, price 9?., of course contains illustrations of all recent wars.

Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, have in their Catalogue CCCLXXXIV. interesting Liver- pool items, which include a reprint of the first Liverpool directory, 1766, 3s. U. Among American entries are Griswold's ' Republican Court, New York, 1855, 3?. as. ; and Cooper and Jardine s two works 1795 2?. 15s. Under Architecture is Parker s ' Glossary,' 3 vols., 1845, 4?. 4s. General works in- clude a fine set of Beaumont and Fletcher, memoir by Dyce, 11 vols., full calf by Bedford, Moxon, 1843-6 16?. 16s. ; the 1862-3 edition of De Quincey, half -calf, 51. 5s. ; Ben Jonson's Works, 9 vols., fine tall set, 1816, 8?. 10s. ; Macaulay's ' England, p vols., calf 1850-61 3?. 15s. ; Ruskin's ' Modern Painters, 6 vols blue calf, 1892, 6?. 6s. ; and Douglas's ' Peerage of Scotland,' also the 'Baronage,' 3 vols., very scarce, 8?. 8s. Among other items we find illu- minated MSS. on vellum ; portraits of the ludor period, engraved on copper in stipple-point by Bar- tolozzi, and printed in colours in facsimile of Hol- bein's original drawings; and books of Scottish views. Under Rowlandson are first editions. A complete set of Pennant's Works, 27 vols. in 22, full red morocco, is 25?. Pageants include Sandford s

'Coronation of James II.,' 1687, 51. 5s.; and the catalogue contains many other treasures.

Our friend Mr. E. Marston, who diligently reads his ' N. & Q.,' points out a slip in our notice of the Emily Bronte desk, ante,, p. 200. "Newbery" should of course read Newby.

LORD ALDEXHAM. By the death yesterday week of Henry Hucks Gibbs, first Baron Aldenham, ' N. & Q.' probably loses its oldest contributor, a query signed "Henry H. Gibbs" appearing at 1 S. vii. 235 (5 March, 1853). To the same volume (p. 586) he sent a reply on detached belfry towers, thus early indicating his interest in church archi- tecture. He remained faithful to his love for ' N. & Q.,' the General Index to the Ninth Series enumerating a long list of articles from his pen. It may be noted as a coincidence that the first volume for the present year, like the volume which intro- duced his name to the readers of ' N. & Q.,' con- tained a query and a reply from him.

The Daily Telegraph of the 14th inst. thus re- ferred to his town house, the name of which he often appended to his communications in ' N. & Q.' : "Lord Aldenham's town house, St. Dunstan's, in Regent's Park, was a famous dwelling. It is the best of those ' villas ' that were built between the inner and outer circle when the park was laid out. The famous Marquis of Hertford secured it, and it was the scene of magnificent entertainments. The name St. Dunstan's was derived from the bell of St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street, which, when the church was pulled down in 1830, Lord Hertford bought. On this bell two life-size savage figures struck the hour. Lord Aldenham bought the house in 1856. Among his many reminiscences Lord Aldenham could recall these figures, while they were still an object of popular wonderment in Fleet Street."

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G. A. AUDEN ("Suffering the badge of their tribe "). Mr. Birrell and Huxley, in using this ex- pression, were merely adapting Shylock's " Suffer- ance is the badge of all our tribe.'