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and apparently was unknown to Dodsworth, Dugdale, and the later editors of the ' Monas- ticon.' Two volumes of the Cartulary are in the British Museum, and a third is in the possession of Lord Ripon. The present volume is in perfect preservation. It contains nearly 500 folios of vellum, and still retains its fifteenth - century stamped binding.

A PORTRAIT of William Harwood, by the excel- lent but little -known American artist Gilbert Stuart, has been traced by Mr. Lionel Cust as the result of an inquiry instituted by him in a pre- vious number or The Burlington Magazine. The owner, a great-grandson of the subject of the picture, has allowed it to be reproduced and pub- lished as a full-page photogravure in the September issue. Sir Claude Phillips gives the first of a series of articles entitled * Odds and Ends 'a title which sufficiently indicates the nature of his matter. In this one he discusses a statuette of Mucius Scaevola in the Museum at Wiesbaden, with the suggested authorship of Agostino Busti. Some reliefs by Benvenuto Cellini in the Victoria and Albert Museum are also illustrated. Mr. Walter Sickert has an article on * The Future of Engraving,' in which he points out what he considers the capital errors of modern etching, namely, the attempts at differentiation between light in its breadth and the hio-h-lights, and between the values of colour in the light. Mr. Basil Oliver concludes his series of articles on ' Table Designs of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ' ; and Mr. G. F. Hill con- tinues his ' Notes on Italian Medals,' with some <extremely interesting plates of illustrations.

BOOKS OF THEOLOGY, CHIEFLY PRE-REFORMATION.

"MESSRS. J. & J. LEIGHTON'S Catalogue of Early Printed Books represents principally the collector's interest in the work of the first presses, but a large number of the books described might well appeal to a modern owner by their intrinsic value, being not too hopelessly expensive to be used for reading. Of these we may mention the ' Opera of bt. John -Chrysostom, a Venetian folio from the press of Stagninus & de Gregoriis (1503, 4?.); St. Thomas Aquinas's ' De veritate Catholic Fidei 'also Vene- tian, from the press of Renner & Nicolaus of Frank- furt (c. 1473, 121.), a quarto, bound in old vellum; and St. Bona Ventura's ' Meditationes Vitae Chnsti ' (c 1487, 9Z. 10s.), from Zainer's press at Ulm. A good example of the more expensive of the theo- logical works offered for sale by Messrs. Leighton is Swevnheym & Pannartz's 1468 edition of St. Augustine's 'De Civitate Dei? 260Z.

Messrs. Hill have a copy of the facsimile ' Biblia Pauperum,' made from a copy in the British Museum in 1859, having an Introduction by J. Ph. Berjeau, II. 10s. Mr. Commin of Exeter has a 'Breviary' in four quarto volumes, printed at Malines in 1843, 18s.

We noticed in Mr. Mayhew's Catalogue a copy of Mr. Warren's recent translation into English of
 * The Sarum Missal,' 2 vols., 8s. 6d.

Messrs. Henry Sotheran in their ' Dictionarius Pauperum' have an interesting old book of some rarity, printed at Paris in 1511. It is an "aid to preachers, containing suggestions for the seasons of the Church a duodecimo in Gothic letters,

1. 4s. A cheap item, but interesting (it costs only 2s. 6d.), is described in the August Catalogue of Messrs. Dobell in their ' Lectionarium Sanctse Marise Virginia,' edited by W. H. Hart from a manuscript in the Lansdowne Collection at the British Museum.

Messrs. E. Parsons have a curious and important item from the Huth Library in the small quarto ' De Amoris Generibus' of Petrus Hasdus a first edition " Accuratissime irnpressum Tarvisii per Gerardum de Flandria," 1492. Brunet describes it as " Ouvrage de theologie mystique, dirige" centre 1'amour," 10Z. 10s.

Messrs. William George's Sons of Bristol have a complete set of the " Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers," including the volume containing the Decrees and Canons, in the new series brought out at Oxford 1890-99, 51. 10s. We have not noticed many copies of the Fathers, but, among the few, an interesting volume is that offered by Messrs. Dobell for 12s. 6cL, con- taining, bound together, the epistles of St. Ignatius in Greek, those of St. Ignatius and St. Polycarp in Latin, and a treatise in French on the reading of Scripture the dates respectively 1558, 1561, and 1561 Paris, printed by G. Morel. It is perhaps worth mentioning that Messrs. Dobell have also an Antwerp edition dated 1732 of the ' Exercitia Spiritualia' of St. Ignatius Loyola (2s. M.} ; and having passed to the sixteenth century, we may mention from the Catalogue of Mr. Baker of Birmingham John Strype's 'Memorials' of Arch- bishop Cranmer (1694, 1Z. Is.).

Students of Catholic theology do not need to be recommended to study Mr. Thomas Baker's Cata- logues. That for this month includes the library of a late Father of the London Oratory, and, among the more important ^7orks which fall within our period, we noticed the ' Opera Omnia ' of St. Gregory the Great the edition published in Paris in 17054 vols., folio, 4Z. 4s.; Graesse's edition of ' The Golden Legend ' (II. Is.) ; and 35 vols. of the " Patres Ecclesiae Anglicanze," edited by J. A. Giles, 1840, 4. 4s.

Students interested in Jewish theology, and in Oriental writings of a religious or mystical cha- racter, will find Mr. Higham's Autumn Catalogue profitable reading. It describes a number of good books from the late Dr. Ginsburg's library, most of which can be had for a quite moderate price. Texts and versions of the Scriptures are particu- larly well represented. Among the more import-

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4 parts in 3 vols., quarto Von Rosenroth's trans- lation 12/. 12s. ; and Abbott's edition of the Evangeliorum Versio antehieronymauia,' Dublin,

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Our next article on Catalogues will relate to works on Heraldry and Genealogy, and will appear on 9 October.

BOSTON, MASS. Forwarded to MR. J. T. PAGE. REV. J. C. HUDSON. Forwarded.