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Vol. XI. Part 2. (Karslake & Co., 21. 2s. yearly.) THE largest amount we have noticed in this part is that realized for the collected works of Shakespeare, including the First Folio, the Second and Third Impressions, and the Fourth Edition, together 4 vols., in oak case with lock and key, for which Mr. Quaritch gave 1,2007. In this copy of the First Folio " ' Troilus and Cressida ' is correctly paged throughout 1-29, and apparently no other copy is recorded with this peculiarity. In all other known copies the Prologue and first page of text are unnumbered, after which pp. 7980, then 25 pp. on 13 11. without numbers, the last leaf being blank as in this copy. This important detail is mentioned by Sir Sidney Lee in his Supplementary Census, where he records this copy."

Works of the Kelmscott Press included Chaucer, for which Mr. Bain paid 121. Baxter prints continue to fetch good prices : the portrait of Peel after Lawrence, 31. 10s. ; Prince Frederick of Prussia with the Princess Royal, 61. 10s. ; ' The Opening of Parliament ' and ' Coronation of Victoria,' in original frames, a pair, 167.

The part opens with a picture of Isaac Watts's statue at Southampton, and an article on ' South- ampton, as the Realm of Books,' by Maude Harrison. Mr. Karslake among his ' Collo- quialisms ' states that ' The Old English Squire," by John Careless, 1838, and ' The Angler's Souvenir,' 1835, were written by W. A. Chatto, the father of the late Andrew Chatto of Chatto & Windus, whose son is at the present time a member of that firm. To the last-mentioned work the author attached the punning pseudonym of " Piscatorius Fisher."

Book -Prices Current. Vol. XXVIII. Parts III-

and IV. (Elliot Stock, 11. 5s. Qd. yearly.) THE most important sale recorded in Part III. is that of the library of the late Major Lambert, which took place in New York on 25-27 February, when the amount realized was 28,523Z. This included his collection of Thackerayana. On 26 February Messrs. Sotheby sold the second portion of the library of the late Mr. George Punn, which brought 8,2687. They also sold between 25 February and 5 March the fifth and final portion of the late Charles Butler's library, which brought 6,0127.

In Part IV. the sales include portions of the libraries of Mr. C. E. S. Chambers, Mr. John Eliot Hodgkin, and Mr. Hunter AitmdeL The arrange- ment will in future be alphabetical.

PART LXXXIX. of The Yorkshire Archcvological Journal, which forms the first part of Vol. XXIII., is particularly valuable in that it contains Mr. S. J. Chadwick's history of the origin and progress of the Society from 1863 to its jubilee year, 1913. This is illustrated with numerous photographs, and gives an account of the Jubilee dinner of the Society, held at York on 23 Oct. of last year, as well as a reproduction of the highly ingenious menu card designed by Mrs. E. K. Clark for the occasion, in which Father Time, with a vast and flowing forelock, presents an aspect more fierce and truculent than, we hope, he does in the actual lives of the company there assembled. This history is followed ly a full and delightful on the Abbey of Vi liars in Brabant, from

the pen of our esteemed correspondent Canon Fowler, which certainly ought to send those who know the English Cistercian abbeys on the first opportunity to Brabant, to make out for them- selves the detail set forth so clearly and authori- tatively in these pages.

THE August Cornhill Magazine brings to an end Sir Henry Lucy's entertaining and often illu- minating Sixty Years in the Wilderness.' The last two chapters describe for us a group of peers in a manner which certainly appeals for kindly indul- gence towards infirmities rather than for admira- tion of capacity. Mr. F. C. Conybeare's sketch of General Picquart, which we should have wished longer, is the most noteworthy of the shorter articles ; and next to it we would put Canon Vaughan's paper on Fuchs, written round a copy of the famous ' De Historia Stirpium ' which he unearthed in the Winchester Cathedral Library. S - James Yoxall writes pleasantly on ' Sundry luarf Abroad,' and Mr. Stephen Paget, in the second instalment of ' The New Parents' Assist- ant,' makes a number of quaint and ingenious remarks which all ring like an introduction to something that is not there.

THERE is much to interest readers of The Fortnightly Review in the August number of that periodical. Count Ilya Tolstoy's reminiscences of his father which till now, we confess, we have found somewhat jejune offer matter of real interest, especially in the pages describing the relations between Tolstoy and Turgenyef. Mr. Arthur Baumann's appreciation of ' Walter Bagehot ' is perhaps the best paper w r e have seen on the siibject, confining itself as it does to what is of permanent interest. ' The Popular Reprint in England," by Mr. James Milne, brings together a number of interesting details, and sets in a good, clear light some of the greater significance of an important literary development. Mr. Henry Irving has here given to the public an eloquent and obviously earnest address by the late Laurence Irving on ' The Drama as a Factor in Social Progress,' delivered last March before the Uni- versity of Toronto. From the literary stand- point, the most important paper in the number is Mr. Edmund Gosse's account of Swinburne's unpublished writings. These include a good deal of characteristic, if in part fragmentary, work among the rest, a vivid juvenile skit, ' M. Prud- homme at the International Exhibition.' Mr. H. S. Shelton has a noteworthy paper discussing the claim of sociology to be regarded as a science. Mr. Maurice Woods s studyof Mr. Chamberlain the point of view being first granted is a highly satisfactory performance, being worked out from the right -flstance, and in itself skilfully managed.

The Nineteenth Century for August has the merit it is not the only one of variety. The articles on burning questions are not only political : they include a vigorous discussion of the query ' What is Wrong with the Telephone ? ' by Mr. C. S. Goldman : a castigation of us all wholly justified, we think, and well administered for having suffered the virtue of obedience to vanish, from the energetic and highly virtuous pen of Mr. W. S. Lilly ; and a kind of threnody (chiefly appreciative retrospection and analysis) over departing ' American Humour,' by Prof. Stephen Leacock. Mr. Harry Roberts replies to Dr.