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bear out the statement that they were executed with great skill and accuracy.

There, are about 50 slabs of the Parthenon frieze, and 12 of the Phygaleian. Nearly all the slabs are inscribed on the plaster HENNING F. LONDON, with the year, and sometimes the month and day.

The Parthenon slabs are dated 1817, 1818, 1819, 1820, and 1821, with these addi- tional months and days : 1817, May ; 1820, April; 1820, June 10; 1821, May 2. One slab has " HENNING F. 1819. 10, Queen's Row, Pentonville, London."

The Phygaleian slabs are dated between January, 1822, and 31 July, 1823. Perhaps this information will be of interest to MR. HABTSHOBNE. H. A. C. SATJNDERS.

Ill, Grosvenor Road, Highbury New Park, N.

BlBLIOTHECA DBUMMENIANA (11 S. i. 248,

333). MB. MANWABING inquires about the library set out in a manuscript catalogue entitled ' Catalogus Librorum qui reperiuntur in Bibliotheca Drummeniana.*

I am inclined to think that the library is probably that of William Drummond of Hawthornden, which is now preserved at the University of Edinburgh. The catalogue of its contents was printed in 1627, and reprinted in 1815. An interesting article on it by Mr. Charles Whibley will be found in Blackwood's Magazine, vol. clxvi. (1899), pp. 753-67. W. P, COUBTNEY.

Can it be that the manuscript in question is an old or original catalogue of the books in the library at Innerpeffray which Was founded prior to 1680 by David Drummond, third Lord Madderty, for the benefit of that district of Perthshire ?

I have not myself seen the library, but I have some clippings relating to it preserved for years against an intended visit. If it has not now been removed to Crieff, which was at one time in contemplation, it will still have its home in a large vaulted chamber, in a plain white building on a wooded knoll about four miles from Crieff and about two from Innerpeffray Station.

The library, which was endowed by Lord Madderty, is said to have originally consisted of about 2,500 volumes, and contains black- letter tomes and tracts, Missals, Breviaries, early editions of the classics, and theological works of great value. There are a Marot and Beza French Psalter of 1607 ; the French pocket Bible, with his autograph, of the great Marquis of Montrose, Lord Madderty's brother-in-law ; an English Bible in black- letter of 1539 (in which the Song of Solomon is styled the Ballet of Solomon) ; and other

scarce editions of the Bible. In short, the library must be a mine of wealth to the book- hunter, the classical scholar, and the anti- quary.

MB. MANWABING says that the catalogue was " compiled evidently during the first half of the seventeenth century." Lord Madderty's will bequeathing the library is dated 1680, and he speaks of it as being then in actual existence. " Which I have erected at the Chapel of Innerpeffray n are his words. The suggested date is therefore quite consistent with the time cf the founding of the collection ; and, as regards the title of the library, the scribe, in seeking to associate with it Lord Madderty's family name of Drummond, might well latinize it as found in the catalogue in question. The test of course would be visit the library, catalogue in hand. J. L. ANDEBSON.

Edinburgh.

' SONGS OF THE CHACE,* 1811 (11 S. i. 329). As far as I am aware, the ' Songs of the Chace ' is always entered as an anony- mous publication in bibliographical cata- logues. May I venture to suggest that it may have been compiled, in part at least, from William Somerville's ' Chase, 1 or from other works, such as ' Field Sports, 7 by the same author ? An edition of Somerville's years of last century ; while, nearly at the same time, an edition of ' Songs of the Chase, and on Racing, Shooting,' &c., appeared bearing the same imprint. Somer- ville's ' Chase, 1 published by Sherwood, was edited by a writer named Topham (? Major Edward Topham, who died in 1820). My suggestion is that the same editor compiled the ' Songs of the Chace,' 1811, making considerable use of Somerville's muse, but introducing, no doubt, the work of other sporting poets. W. S. S.
 * Chase l was issued by Sherwood in the early

The 'Biographical Dictionary of Living Authors,' 1816, has, " Gosden, - ; book- binder,' St. Martin's Lane. Songs of the Chace, Racing, &c.,. 8vo, 2nd edit,, 1813 " ; and Allibone's 'Diet. Eng. Lit.' gives the same, only altering the name to " Gosdan."

Several copies of the 1811 edition have been sold by auction in recent years, some richly bound, with a sporting scene painted on the fore-edge, probably bound by Gosden himself. The book was illustrated by Scott, a well-known engraver, who also con- tributed to another work catalogued wit] " T. Gosden"- as its author: 'Impressions from a Set of Silver Buttons relative to the Sports of the Field,' 1821. W. B. H.