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it last worked in these parts with miserable cottages and impoverished hamlets. I coulc not, however, banish from my thoughts the books and bindings at Althorpe. Perhaps the amiable Spencers are not proprietors here ; yet I could not avoid thinking about that literary oddity, Dibdin, and the follies of the Roxburghe of the glories of the binding, and the biographica! notes in his whimsical volumes on glorious binders. Thirty thousand volumes encased for remote posterity by those sublime artists, so canonized or dibdenized, left nothing for road and village comforts ; and if the waste was not felt here it must have been felt somewhere. Gracious God ! thirty thousand full squared ' boards, rolled edges and sides, embossed leaves, silk linings, &c., would have covered in thirty thou- sand cottages, and the amount of the cost at ten per cent would in twenty years have improved this entire district."

This interesting work by Phillips was not completed. The ' Advertisement ' an- nounces :

" The work may extend to two, three, or four volumes, or twelve or sixteen parts, according to the encouragement bestowed."

However, apparently only two parts were published. The copy before me consists of frontispiece, ' Nottingham Market Place ' ; title, Advertisement (i-vi) ; title of No. II., Advertisement (iii-vi) ; Contents (vii-viii) ; and pp. 1-220. The Museum copy is almost identical, but the original covers of the two parts have been bound up at the end.

Phillips has also been credited with the similar work, ' A Tour in Wales and through Several Counties of England, including both the Universities, Performed in the Summer of 1805.' He published this the following year at 6, New Bridge Street. There is no similarity in style between this and the work just discussed, and it is difficult to believe that it is any- thing more than the production of one of his hack writers.

One of Phillips's most successful publica- tions was the ' Xew Picture of London ' (1802). The title was borrowed from a similar work published by J. Wilson of Oxford Street, 1791, and I have copies of the companion to the principal places of curiosity and enter- tainment, &c., of this date, lettered on back ' Picture of London.' The first imitator of Phillips .was the subsequently famous Tegg, who published in July, 1803, ' Tegg & Castleman's New Picture of London for 1803-4,' &c. That rivalry with Phillips was intended is evidenced in the Preface as well as in the style and purpose of the volume. Here is an excerpt with some significance :

" Instead of making reflections on men and manners, the compiler has impartially presented objects as they are, and left his readers to draw

their conclusions, for he deemed it the height of presumption to attempt to regulate the opinion of individuals, many of whom are greatly superior to him in abilities."

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

[For other information concerning Sir Richard Phillips see 2 S. iii. 351 ; 4 S. i. 37 ; 5 S. ii. >>!> 316 ; iv. 95, 136, 180 ; v. 38 ; x. 88, 236 ; 6 S. ii. 408, 437 ; 8 S. ix. 104, 315 ; 9 S. x. 407 ; xi. 341, 381, 434, 476.]

INSCRIPTIONS IN THE ANCIEN CIMETIERE, MENTONE.

(See ante, pp. 326, 383.)

THE third terrace is reached from the first by a flight of steps not far from the before- mentioned gate.

THIRD TERRACE, RIGHT SIDE OF PATH.

149. John Miller Morison, Surgeon, Beith, Scot- land, d. 22 Jan., 1881.

150. Rachel, dau. of J. Cooper, Esq., co. Lime- rick, d. 16 Dec., 1880, a. 2.

151. Thomas Francis Allan, d. 10 Mav, 1880, a. 2(9).

152. Eleanor Eliza, w. of Edward R. Meade, Esq., d. 4 April, 1880, a. 56.

153. Gertrude Mary, wid. of the Rt. Hon. W. H. F. Cogan, Tinode, Ireland, d. 25 Feb., 1900. R.I.P.

154. Herbert John, s. of Edmund and Ann Salome Reeves, of Heathfield, Wimbledon, b. 13 April, 1854, d. 27 Jan., 1880.

155. James Hussey, of the Close, Salisburv, d. Dec. 16, 1879, a. 71.

156. William Freebairn, b. in Glasgow, Nov., 1858, d. 2 Dec., 1879.

157. Ethel Dorothea Nicolls, b. 27 Dec., 1853, d. 8 April, 1879.

158. James Warren Robertson, 14th Hussars, and 2nd Middlesex Militia, d. April 4, 1879, a. 37.

159. John Charles, younger s. of John Barring- ton, of Riversfield, Wexford, d. March 25, 1879,

a. 28.

160. Charlotte Dalrymple, 5th dau. of Geor Bennet Bradshaw, of Pegsborough, Tipperary, Captain 5th Dragoon Guards, d. March 24, 187F

161. Frank, youngest ch. of William and Emilj Shaen, b. in London, 30 Oct., 1862, d. 21 Marcl 1879. His elder bro., Arthur O'Ferrall Shaer

b. May 26, 1858, d. April 16, 1890.

162. William J. J. Smith, Capt. 75th Regt. of Ballymore, Tipperary, d. Feb., 1879, a. 59.

163. James McKeown, B.A., Belfast, d. 15 Dec. 1878.

164. Susan Hemmings, much valued servant of the Rev. Frederick and the Hon. Mrs. Ansor d. 10 May, 1878.

165. Isabel Louisa Venn, d. April 21, 1878, a. 32

166. James Cruickshank, of Auckland, N.Z. b. 31 Dec., 1832, d. 29 March, 1878.

167. Matthew Herbert, s. of John Baxter, Liverpool, d. 24 Feb., 1878, a. 22.

168. John Blenkinsop, of Denston and Xev castle-on-Tyne, d. Feb. 8, 1878, a. 42.