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old red morocco, N. Jenson, 1472, was bought b Mr. Quaritch for 1.600J. A Horn Book, 1796 fetched 91.

One of the most wonderful lots ever sold for shilling (purchased by Mr. Higham) consisted o an index of all the lines in Dr. Watts's Hymn And Psalms, made by John Rippon, who was th< minister of the church of which Spurgeon long years after became pastor. Another instanc of Dr. Rippon's industry was recorded in The Athenapum of the 9th of October, 1869, on the occasion of the reopening of Bunhill Fields Burial-ground. This was a list of names com piled by that " modern Old Mortality, the lafr Dr. John Rippon," from the graves of all he could identify. The names fill twelve folio volumes, and include a good portion of the seventy thousand who have been buried there The volumes may be seen at the Heralds' College

.Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Vol. VII

Part III. (Liverpool, 21, Alfred Street.) "THE REV. F. G. ACKERLEY continues his study of ' The Dialect of the Nomad Gypsy Copper- smiths,' in which he gives texts and vocabulary. As it has been suggested that an analysis oJ common Romani would be interesting, he ha; worked out the following : Indian, 330 words, '39 per cent ; Non-Indian, 183 words, 22 per cent ; Rumanian (including many Slavonic words), 224, 26 per cent ; other Slavonic, 36 words, 4 per cent ; "Hungarian, 11 words, 2 per cent ; Unidentified, '60 words, 7 per cent. In this analysis Mr. Ackerley has " only counted roots, and has

omitted a few words apparently picked up from German, e.g. plaisa " ; and he modestly adds

"that he " is not so rash as to guarantee the exact accuracy of his calculation." For the un-

"identified words he " can only offer the apology of one who has done his utmost."

Mr. Bernard Gilliat-Smith records an eleventh

Jek Cor.' It is pleasant to see how great is Mr. Gilliat-Smith's delight in recording these folk-tales ;
 * Bulgarian Gypsy Folk-Tale : O Saranda-Thai-

'he assures his readers that, "owing probably to the amount of work he has necessarily had to bestow \ipon the present tale, he has derived as much pleasure from the repeated perusal of many of its paragraphs as he does from the very best type of vivid description contained in the modern short story." This excellent tale, he tells us, "has many parallels in the fairy tales of all Europe and of India, and, what is of more imme- diate interest to students of Romani, it is found scattered throughout the vocabulary of Paspati. . . . .From the purely linguistic point of view, there is much in the tale to interest the scholar. Here we find the word moxM, said to be of un- known origin, and, until now, not recorded farther east than Hungary." It is, he finds, well known as far as the shores of the Black Sea

Among the books reviewed is Mr. Gilliat- ' Smith's translation of St. Luke's Gospel into Bulgarian Romani.

THE Journal of the Royal Institute of British A rchitects for August opens with the essay by Mr. Thomas Simons Attlee ' On the Influence on Architecture of the Condition of the Worker,' for which he was awarded a silver medal a.nd twenty-five guineas. The author explains that 'the theme of his essay is not simply the familiar

controversy of " the Architect and the C'raft.-sinan " but rather an expansion of Prof. Lethabv'g pregnant phrase "Architecture is the matrix "of civilization." He believes that architecture " is essentially a co-operative art, and must express at any period the condition of the people as a whole, not merely the level of culture which its actual fashioners have readied ; that the first essential of greatness in architecture is the welfa of the meanest members of the bodv which p duces it.

The other contents include a review of tl Report of the Society for the Preservation Ancient Buildings by Mr. S. Perkins Pick.

( PRINCE OP WALES'S FUND. I have Cranage's (.hurches of Shropshire,' strongly bound in two i volumes ; also ' Heraldry (British and Foreign) by John Woodward (1896), and Fox Daviesl 'Armorial Families ' (1910). The first cost, with binding, 61., and, if I remember right, the other two each cost the same. Will any one give me 4:1. for any one of these, the proceeds to go to the Prince of W T ales's Fund and the Belgian Relief Fund ? They are all three " as new."

,_, G. S. PARRY, Lieut.-Col.

17, Ashley Mansions, S.W.

MRS. GEORGE MURRAY SMITH. WE regret to record the death of this lady, the widow of George Murray Smith, to whose patriotism we owe the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' On his death in 1901 Mrs. Smith became the sole owner of the copyright of the Dictionary, and continued the good work by giving us the Supplements containing biographical notices of those who had died since the completion of the first edition. Mrs. Smith's maiden name was Blakeway, and she married George Murray i Smith in 1854. At that time the business of Smith & Elder was conducted in Corahill. She died suddenly at her residence, 7, Connaught Place, on I Saturday, the 5th iust., at the age of 83

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