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Brend on the matter of ' A National Medical Service,' and Miss Eva Gore-Booth has a charac- teristically sound and thoughtful paper on ' Women's Wages.' Other interesting papers are Lord Eversley s study rather damning to the Royal Family of ' Marie Antoinette and Bar- nave ' ; Mr. Alexander Carlyle's reprint, with explanatory notes, of twelve new letters of Mrs. Carlyle's they are good and characteristic ; Sir Fred'erick Wedrnore's account of the Louvre as now enlarged ; and a pleasing study by Rowland Grey of Etienne Dumont, written round his English correspondence.

PERHAPS the most interesting feature in the August number of The Burlington Magazine is the illustrated article by Sir Claude Phillips con- cerning a fragment of a large altarpiece on panel in oils, which he recently acquired. He attributes the authorship to Melozzo da Fori. The panel has suffered considerably from the ravages of time, but the two angels remain in the detached lunette which once capped the lost altarpiece ; they are swinging their censers, and holding in their unoccupied hands the crown of the saint. The fragment is of serene beauty. One feels less drawn towards the early Guardi, '.Piazza S. Marco,' illustrated and described by Mr. G. A. Simonson. The characteristic qualities of the picture are doubtless not such as are easily tran- scribed in monochrome. Chinese art is repre- sented in two articles one on the incised lacquer of various periods, by Mr. A. A. Breuer, the other on Chinese jade, by Mr. I. B, Maxwell ; both are well illustrated. The ' Notes on Pictures in the Royal Collections ' are concerned with the various portraits of Isabella d'Este ; and there is an article on some very interesting remains of a wooden ambone from Southern Italy, which can now be seen to more advantage at the Victoria and Albert Museum than formerly. The frontispiece is a reprod iction of a fifteenth - century Venetian miniature from the collection of M. Leonce Rosenberg.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. AUGUST.

MR. F. MARCHAM'S Catalogue No. 33 is a clearance list of Books and MSS., which includes some 70 Mnily histories, pedigrees, and memoirs, and over 60 items connected with London and Middlesex. Of the latter the most interesting is the original trust deed of the Princess's Theatre, dated 6 May, 1837, on 24 skins of parchment, signed by James Prescott of the one part, and Thomas Miller, Henry Broadwood, and Curtis Reed of the other, 61. 6s. Other good MSS. are an Elizabethan MS. transcript on 40 folios of the ' Liber Rubeus ' of the Exchequer, 11. Is. ; a collection of about 120 original letters addressed to William Hone, arranged in three quarto volumes (1811-40, 1876), 11. 15s. ; and the indenture, dated 27 March, 1626, between the Hertfordshire Commissioners and the King for the lay subsidy, with the return for the hundreds of Hertford and Braughing a noteworthy item, seeing that no return is preserved among the sub- sidies at the Public Record Office 51. 5s. Mr. Marcham has also a complete set of ' The Annual Register, : in 148 vols., from its beginning in 1758 to the voume for 1904, 311. 10s. ; and a copy of Weever's ' Ancient Funerall Monvments,' 1631,

11. 10s. ; as well as a copy of the first complete edition of Domesday Book, brought out in 1783, vols. i. and ii., 40s. Under ' Americana ' the most important entry describes a collection of about 170 letters addressed to T. Spring Rice when Chancellor of the Exchequer, in response to a circular letter to " Persons in Receipt of Pensions " published in The Globe 11 Dec., 1837, offered for 21Z.

MR. EDWARD PARSOXS'S Catalogue No. 33 comprises over 600 items : Old Engravings, Original Drawings, Coloured Views, and other like pieces. We found the Original Drawings particularly interesting, noticing, to give one or two examples, a fine Fragonard (Garden Scene of a Chateau, crayon, heightened in sepia and wash, 1501. ) ; a Venetian scene by Guardi, 100 guineas ; a Rembrandt (Hagar and Ishmael), 100Z. ; a design for a ceiling, and a red crayon drawing from Raphael, by Alfred Stevens, 30 guineas and 251. respectively ; and an Albrecht Diirer (Stf Veronica), 251. An interesting little collection o. modern etchings and lithographs includes a signed proof of D. Y. Cameron's ' John Knox's House,' 38Z., and one of the same artist's ' The Workshop,' 35 guineas. Among the coloured aquatints the first place is given to a picture of an early flying machine (1843) passing over Primrose Hill, with a wondering crowd beneath it, and St. Paul's dome showing dimly in the dis- tance : the machine has an outline roughly like a monoplane 20Z. The price asked for a set of eight coloured hunting-scenes ' The Quorn Hunt ' by H. Alken and F. C. Lewis, is 195Z.. There are 130 coloured views of Switzerland 11 of them Aberli's and 80 or so examples of Piranesi's work. Of the English views described here the most interesting are four aquatints by Stadler, after Turner : ' Ashburnham,' ' Battle Abbey,' ' Beauport,' and ' Rpsehill,' engraved about 1817, privately printed in colour, and finished by Turner's own hand, 65 guineas.

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