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NOTES AND QUERIES. ui s. i. JAN. is, 1910.

Hallam, v. Walter and others,' Privately Printed, crown 8vo, 1908 (a verbatim report of the action for libel in which Messrs. Murray recovered 7,500Z. as damages).

Walch's Literary Intelligencer, Jubilee Number,

May, 1909. Hobart, Tasmania, 1909. This gives an interesting account of the founding of the

bookselling firm of J. Walch & Sons of Hobart Town by

Major J. W. H. Walch in 1842 and of its subsequent history.

AVestell, James, d. 1908. Sixty Years a Book- seller. This book was announced as in preparation in March,

1903, just after Mr. Westell's death.

Wood, William, & Company, New York. One Hundred Years of Publishing (1804-1904). A Brief Historical Account of the House of William Wood & Company. With Por- traits and other Illustrations. Crown 8vo, New York, 1904.

Worrnan, Ernest James. Alien Members of the Book-Trade during the Tudor Period. Being an index to those whose names occur in the returns .... published by the Huguenot Society. Small 4to, Bibliographical Society,

The following are addenda to the entries ante, p. 5 :

Aldis, H. G. The Book-Trade, 1557-1625. (Reprinted from ' The Cambridge History of English Literature,' Vol. IV., pp. 378-420.) Reprinted for Private Circulation. 8vo, London, 1909. Pp. 415-20 are devoted to a bibliography of the subject

during the period specified.

Burger (Konrad). The Printers and Publishers of the Fifteenth Century, with Lists of their Works. Index to the Supplement to Hain's RepertoriumBibliographicum. 8vo, London, 1902.

Dobell, Bertram, Bookseller and Man of Letters.

By S. Bradbury. 8vo, London, 1909. Gentleman's Magazine, July, August, September,

1838.

Various letters from Daniel Stuart, of The Morning Post, with reference to a dispute between the publishers and himself as to the high charges made for advertisements, and to the refusal of the publishers to be relegated to the back page of the paper. " To obtain the accommodation refused by The Morning Post they set up a morning paper, The British Press ; and to oppose The Courier an evening one, The Globe." These letters also contain very interesting details about Coleridge. His connexion with The Morning Post was said " to have raised that paper from some small  properly finds a place in Mr. Boase's wonderfully useful book, 4 Modern English Biography,' iii. 852.

His earliest recorded ancestor is John Sykes, a mason, of Calver, co. Derby, whose son Godfrey had a grandson George, born in Sheffield in 1761. Godfrey was a favourite Christian name in the family. This George Sykes had a cousin Dennis Sykes, a Sheffield

merchant, whose son Godfrey, a barrister of the Middle Temple, was solicitor to the Board of Stamps and Taxes, which Godfrey had a son Godfrey Milnes Sykes, who was of Trinity College, and afterwards of Down- ing College, Cambridge.

George Sykes above named became a Wesleyan, and afterwards a Congregational minister, and made sufficient mark to cause his ' Life ? to be published, and his portrait twice engraved : ' Memoir of the Life, Ministry, and Correspondence of the late Rev. George Sykes/ by W. Greenwood, printed at Malton in 1827. He married Mary, daughter of Matthew Glenton, Esq., of Boroughbridge, and by her had a son George Sykes, born in 1801, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza- beth Jagger. Godfrey Sykes, the artist, was their first child, and was born 3 Dec., 1824. In early life he worked with Messrs. Bell & Tompkins, engravers, at Sheffield, and afterwards was an engraver there on his own account. In September, 1860, he married Ellen Palfreyman, and had two sons : Godfrey, born in May, 1861, and Stanley in April, 1864. After his death, 2.8 Feb., 1866, a collection of his works was exhibited at the South Kensington Museum, and noticed in The Athenceum, 18 Aug., ] 866.

W. C. B.

[The original design of the cover of The Cornhill Magazine can be seen at the new South Kensington Museum, in a glass case. The drawing is on paper, bearing the late Mr. George Smith's crest.]

SOWING BY HAND. (See 10 S. xii. 482.) Both the critic who objected to the design of the sower on the cover of The Cornhill, and Mr. Smith in defending it, were wrong, so far as my observation goes, and I have been familiar with the process for the greater part of my life. In sowing by hand or kt broadcast,' 1 as it is usually called the sower walks along the ridge of the ' ; land " to be sown, and scatters the seed to left and right of him, using both hands alternately. He does not sow one side of the land first with his right hand, and afterwards the other side with his left. The case Mr. Smith saw is without parallel in my experi- ence ; but that method may of course be followed in some places. C. C. B.

' A LAD OF THE O'FBIELS.' This is the title of a well-known book by Seumas MacManus. The surname O'Friel is known to me only from its pages, so I presume this orthography was coined by the author. I judge it to be a jocular attempt to represent