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NOTES AND QUERIES. [iis.x. JULYH.WU.

The illustrations are photographs giving views of the tract over which the armies moved, and of the supposed Held of the battle, and an attentive con- ^deration of them is well worth while for the light it throws on the historical material at our command.

THE July number of The Burlington Magazine contains further ' Notes on Pictures in the Koyal Collections,' by Mr. Lionel Gust, these re- lating to pictures by Pieter de Hooch. One, ' A Garden Scene,' now at Windsor Castle, has only received notice comparatively recently, owing to its seclusion in private apartments. Illus- trations of this and of two others are provided. The results of the continued exploration of the soil of Persia are recorded in notes on eirly Persian pottery from the excavations at Rhages, of which plates are given, and a de- tailed description by M. Charles Vignier. Some interesting Limoges enamels by an unidentified master receive comment and illustration. The series of ' Notes on Italian Medals,' by Mr. G. F. Hill, is continued. Attention is called to some thirteenth-century portrait-heads of St. Louis and "his family in the Chateau Vieux, St. Germain, the plates of four of these showing work that is full of vitality, early in date as it is. There is a full-page coloured illustration of a tapestry picture recently brought from China by Mr. Larkin of Bond Street, droll and quaint in character, though perhaps some- what slight as a work of art. Mrs. J. H. Pollen has n article on ' Ancient Linen Garments,' and Mr. Egerton Beck some interesting notes on ' Pre- litial Crosses in Heraldry and Ornament.' Four sketches of scenes at Tivoli by Turner are repro- duced, with some comments on the points of interest in the neighbourhood by Mr. T. Ashby. The frontispiece is a reproduction of a Persian miniature of the sixteenth century from the collec- tion of M. Leonce Rosenberg.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JULY.

IN his Catalogue No. 340 Mr. Francis Edwards has brought together something short of 300 works on Alpine Climbing and Mountaineering generally. The earliest work described is Fynes Moryson's Nearly a century separates this from the book next in date, 'Itinera Alpina Tria, 1702^4,' by Joh. Jac. ficheuchzer, a small 4to, published in London, 1708, and to be had here for 14s. Of eighteenth-century works, the best is Baron de Zurlauban's ' Tableau de la Suisse,' four folio vols., containing 430 copper- plate views unlettered proofs and published at Paris, 1780-86, 14Z. Among early nineteenth- century things we noticed as worth mentioning Yon Humboldt's 'Vues des Cordilleres,' bound in 'half-morocco, 1810, 91. ; Brockedon's ' Illustrations of the Passes of the Alps ' K>ne of the 12 copies on large paper in 2 vols., having the plates, of which 'there are 109, in two states, 1828, 4. ; and Beau- mont's ' Travels from France to Italy through the Lej on tine Alps,' a coloured copy, 1800, 31.
 * Itinerary,' the 1617 folio, offered here for 11. 10*.

MR. J. MKTCALFE-MORTOX of Brighton has sent us his Catalogue No. 14, which is both various and entertaining. One of the best collections here is that of works on botany, which includes a number of useful works, and also a set of ' Anne Pratt,' Complete in six volumes, and an unopened copy,

offered for 2f. 10*. 6^. Under the heading ' Curious ' we notice a copy of Defoe's ' Colonel Jacque,' the second edition, published in the same year as the first (1723), 11. 5*. ; and under 'Early Printing' there is an interesting little sixteenth- century production from Rome, 24 pp., roughly bound in contemporary parchment, and bearing marginal notes in ink here and there, containing a treatise on calligraphy and letter-writing, 1543, 3Z. ' Freemasonry ' covers nearly 130 items in the catalogue, and not a few are worth considera- tion. We noted the Masonic print by Gillray (19f in. by 17J in.), in which Count Cagliostro is the principal figure, mentioned in TrowBridge's book on that hero, 1786, 4. ; and also a ' Recueil de Chansons,' dated "Jerusalem 1765, and Philadelphia 1773," and offered for 31. 7s. 6V/., which has bound up with it a work on Female Masonry, both of them belonging to the circle, if not to the pen, of Cagliostro. Under ' Old Plays ' and ' Old Poetry ' are some good first editions ; and two interesting volumes with which we may conclude this notice are a copy of the first issue ot the sixth edition of Frederick Locker's ' London Lyrics,' which, it may be remembered, includes half a score or so of poems here published for the first time, 18C-2, 10*. 6d., and a first edition of 'Eothen,' 1844, 18s. 6d.

MESSRS. PROBSTHAIN & Co.'s Catalogue of Indian Literature, Art, and Religion (No. 28) is certainly worth an Oriental student's looking through. There are useful collections of Sanskrit and Pali texts and translations, as well as some examples in like kind of divers Indian dialects, and a number of Grammars and Dictionaries. Books on the Jains and Parsis, on Folk-lore, Yoga and Vedanta, Numismatics, and Music also include several good items, among the last being six works by S. M. Tagore. The most important item in the list of Journals and Transactions is a complete set, from Vol. I. to Vol. LXXIIL, of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1&32-1904), for which 1251. is asked. Under Art and Archaeology we noticed the Reports of the Archaeological Survey of India, 1871-87, done by Major-General Cunningham and Messrs. Beglar and Carlleyle, complete in 24 vols., including a General Index, 20/. There are also Fergusson's 'Tree and Serpent Worship,' second edition, 1873, 121. 12s. ; Moor's ' Hindu Pantheon,' 1864 edition, 21. 10*. ; and Dubois's 'Description des Castes Indiennes,' in a MS. of 1,019 pages, bound in calf, and thought to be the author's original copy from which the English translation was made, 1QI. 10s. A copy of this last (1817) is also offered here at 18*.

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