Page:Notes and Queries - Series 11 - Volume 1.djvu/468

 460

NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. i. JUNE 4, 1910.

intrusive spies, she ceased from her generous self-sacrifice, and waxed to her former fair pro- portions.

The other stories are not less grotesque in their meagre inventiveness. Even Mr. Lang, with all his keenness of scent for the " folkish," can in his Introduction find little to say for the interest of these particular specimens. He is able, however, to discern a variant of the well-known Tom-Tit-Tot story in the tale of the hippopotamus whose devices are foiled through the cunning of the tortoise in discovering his name, which is Isantim. He traces also in ' The King and the Ju-Ju Tree ' the familiar theme of not eating iood when offered in the spirit-land. Otherwise little comes to the net of the folk-lorist.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JUXE.

MESSRS. W. HEFFER & SONS send from Cam- bridge their Catalogue 60, containing the Edition de Luxe of Matthew Arnold's Works, 15 vols., 1903, 6Z. 6s., and first editions of 'The Strayed Reveller,' 1849, and ' Empedocles on Etna,' 1852, 151. Under Bacon is ' The Advancement of Learning ' in the original calf, 1674, with the autograph of Lilly, 4Z. 4s. ; under Blackmore, the scarce first edition of ' Lorna Doone,' 3 vols., original blue cloth, 1869, 181. ; under Blake, Gilchrist's 'Life,' 2 vols., 1880, 21. 2s.; and under Browning, ' Gold Hair,' morocco, 1864, 11. 7s. A fine large copy of the first edition of -* The Anatomy of Melancholy,' 1621, is 40Z. Under Coleridge is the first edition of ' Fears in Solitude,' 4to, levant by Riviere, 1798, 16Z. ; and under Goldsmith first editions of 'The Good .Natur'd Man ' and ' She Stoops to Conquer,' 2 vols., bound in morocco by Zaehnsdorf, 351. Among Keats items is the first edition of ' Lamia, ,and other Poems,' in the original boards, uncut, 60Z. Under Landor is the first edition of his of William Morris and Scott ; also of Shelley, including * The Cenci,' original boards, uncut, 85Z., and ' Prometheus,' 33Z. There is Swin- burne's ' The Queen-Mother,' first edition, original cloth, Pickering, 40Z. Under Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book is the excessively rare first edition, John Daye, 1578, 45Z.
 * Poems,' morocco, 24Z. There are first editions

The Catalogue also includes autograph letters from Shelley, Matthew Arnold, and others. Under De Quincey is the original MS. of his paper on Pope, bound in morocco, 20Z. 10s. Under 'Lamb is an unpublished acrostic to Emma B. written in an album, 30Z. Among pictures is a charcoal sketch by Burne- Jones, ' The Miraculous Draught of Fishes,' drawn for Morris, 28Z. 10s. The Catalogue contains many illustrations.

Messrs. James Rimell & Son's Catalogue 221 is devoted to the Fine Arts. Under Archi- tecture is the Dictionary issued by the Archi- tectural Publication Society, with the supple- mentary volume, 8 vols. in 6, folio, half -morocco, 1853-92, 8Z. Under Blake are many items. Under Caricatures is a collection of old engravings, 1750-1820, 26Z. 5s. Under Cellini is Addington Symonds's translation of the Life, first edition, 2 vols., Nimmo, 1888, 4Z. 15s. Costume includes many important works, including Hull's ' British Army ' and Gauci's ' British Navy,' folio, 100Z. Under Daniell is his ' Voyage round Great

Britain,' containing 308 coloured aquatint plates, 8 vols. in 4, folio, half-morocco, 1814, 48Z. There are works under Decoration and Ornament, including Cauvet's rare ' Recueil d'Ornemens a 1'Usage des jeunes Artistes,' royal folio, old boards (one side missing), Paris, 1777, 65Z. Another rare work is from the collection of Reynolds with his autograph and stamp, Errard's ' Vases antiques,' 1651, &c., 4Z. 10s. Under Diirer is a collection of 34 woodcuts, 120Z. ; and under Leech 50 original pencil sketches contributed to Punch, 100Z. There is an almost perfect copy of the ' Nuremberg Chronicle,' 1493, 26Z. Under Paris are nine water-colours by Allom, intended to illustrate Mrs. Gore's ' Paris in 1841,' with copy of the book, 21Z. Among many works under Portraits are Harding's ' Biographical Mirror,' 3 vols. in 1, 4to, russia, 1795, 18Z. ; and Knight's ' Gallery,' 2 vols., royal folio (one of 125 copies), 1837, 9Z. 9s. There are works under Redgrave, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Romney, Turner, and many others.

Messrs. M. Simmons & Waters of Leamington Spa send two Catalogues, Nos. 244 and 245. The former contains a good general book list, and opens with an extra-illustrated Boswell, with ' Johnsoniana,' extended to 7 vols., morocco by Riviere, 14Z. 14s. Under Goldsmith is the first edition of ' She Stoops to Conquer,' morocco, 1773, 21Z. ; and under Gibbon ' The Decline and Fall,' 12 vols., half-calf, 1832, 3Z. There are some playbills on satin, and works under Row- landson and Ruskin. A set of Thackeray, 13 vols., morocco, 1904, is 6Z. 6s.

Catalogue 245 contains Old Engravings, Por- traits, Original Drawings, and a Selection of Dore" Prints.

to

ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

WE beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we dp not print, and to this rule we can make no exception.

EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to "The Editor of 'Notes and Queries '"Adver- tisements and Business Letters to " The Pub- lishers " at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.G.

To secure insertion of communications corre- spondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as he wishes to appear. When answer- ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact [leading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second com- munication " Duplicate."

M. L. R. BRESLAR ("Damiens 5 bed of steel"). Goldsmith's Damiens was a fanatic who stabbed Louis X\., and was cruelly tortured in order to extort a confession from him.

A. ABRAHAMS and W. G. RICHARDS. Forwarded