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collection of deeds and papers belonging to the late Jasper Gibson of Hexham, solicitor, which has been recently presented to the Society's .'library, and contains much good matter. Another -of our correspondents, Miss M. Hope Dodds, has an exceedingly learned, careful, and instructive article on ' The Bishops' Boroughs,' of which -students of the development of boroughs would do well to make note. Prof. Haverfield contributes "both an independent article on ' Newly Dis- covered Roman Altars,' and, under the heading ' Corstopitum,' a note on a fragment of an in- scribed tile, and a conspectus of potters' stamps on plain Samian ware, found in the Corbridge excavations. On these in general, Mr. R. H. Forster and Mr. W. H. Knowles supply the Report for 1914, and Mr. H. H. E. Craster gives an account of the coins discovered. Mr. W. H. Knowles has, further, an article on Newburn Hall and Manor House, Northumberland. Dr. Green- well and Mr. Hunter Blair contribute part v. of their Catalogue of Durham Seals this being concerned with Scottish private seals, an ex- tremely interesting and well-illustrated series. The remaining article is Mr. A. M. Oliver's ' List -of the Abbots of Newminster.'

The Council's Report for 1914 recalls the fact that the very foundations of the Society were laid at a time one hundred and two years ago when the nation was labouring under the stress of warfare only less severe than that which we are at present enduring. The Council add their protest to that of all lovers of the past against the destruction of Louvain, of Reims Cathedral, and of the architectural monuments of Ypres. We note that the proposal to reprint one volume of the First Series of the Society's Proceedings dealing with the years 1855-6-7 is being carried out, and it is hinted that the records for the years 1813-54 might be republished. The membership of the Society is, we are glad to learn, slightly larger now than it has been at any previous tune.

BOOKS CONCERNED WITH THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

THE fifteenth century in England is a sombre time compared with the period preceding or period following it. Suppose a student wishing to collect a "library on the subject, what might he pick up from the half-dozen catalogues which we have received this month ? The most interesting items are connected rather with the Continent than with our own country ; and there is little that bears upon the extraordinary victory of which this next week we celebrate the quincentenary. However, Mr. William Glaisher has a copy of Mr. Kenneth Vickers's ' Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester ' (3s.9<7.), which is a good modern study of our period.

William George's Sons of Bristol have sent us their Catalogue 336, which is concerned with Topography and Genealogy, andf is well worth hunting through from our present point of view ; 'for though the items dealing solely with the work done, or the families conspicuous, or the events which occurred during 1400-50 are not numerous, there are many books and series of publications in Which such matters are included. As examples we may mention a copy of GasquetV Greater Abbeys oi England ' (7s. Qd.) ; ' Bristol in the Fifteenth Century,' an excerpt from The Retrospective Review, 1828 (2a. Qd.)-, the edition published at

Bristol in 1900 of the ' Liber Rubeus Ville Bristoll,' covering from 1344 to about 1490 (31. 3s.) ; and a copy of the best edition of Nash's ' Worcester- shire ' (10Z. 10s.). Messrs. Dobell have a book which we may perhaps include here the Caradoc Press print of ' Quia Amore Langueo,' from a fifteenth-century MS. in the Lambeth Palace Library. An interesting item, described in the Catalogue of Mr. G. P. Johnston of Edinburgh, is the ' Opera Omnia ' of JEneas Sylvius Piccolomini, whose journey to Scotland falls within our period. The edition was produced at Bath in 1571, and here costs 11. 15s. We may mention, also from Mr. Johnston's list, a fine sixteenth-century copy of the ' Imitation of Christ ' the translation made by Thomas Rogers and printed by Denham 16mo (4| by 2J in.), bound in old calf (6?. 6s.).

Messrs. Rimell's Catalogue of Books on the Fine Arts (No. 240) includes a considerable number which treat of matters belonging to our period. Thus under ' Costume ' we have Pugin's ' Glossary ' (2,1. 10s.), Kretschmer's ' Die Trachten der Volker ' (HZ.), and P. Mercuri's ' Costumes Historiques des Xlle, XHIe, XI Ve et XVe Siecles ' (4?. 4s.), as well as a good copy of Vecellio, ' Habiti Antichi et Moderni de tutto il Mondo.' Crowe and Caval- caselle's 'New History of Painting' (vols. i.-ii., which take in the Sienese and Florentine schools of the fifteenth century) is to be had for IL 10s. ; and the same firm offers for 21. 15s. M. le Chanoine Dehaisnes's ' Documents et Extraits divers con- cernant 1'Histoire de 1'Art dans la Flandre, i'Artois et le Hainaut,' covering from 627 to 1500. Doyle's' Chronicle of England,' B.C. 55 A.D. 1485 [15s.), is also worth noting in this list, as is a cheap copy (3s. Qd.) of Pugin's ' Gothic Furniture of the Fifteenth Century.' Messrs. Rimell have besides Middle's ' Recueil ' of illuminated letters of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, 1853 (7Z.) ; seven volumes of Lacroix's works on the arts and customs of different periods, of which four deal with the Middle Ages ; and the work on Spanish art by D. Valentin Cardarera y Salano from the eleventh to the seventeenth century (21. 10s.).

A few modern books of a miscellaneous character, dealing with the biography and history belonging Glaisher's list of Publishers' Remainders. Thus Lacy's ' History of the Spur ' (2s. Qd.), Miss Janet Ross's ' Lives of the Early Medici ' (4s.), and F. Schevill's ' Story of a Mediaeval Commune,' Siena (3s. 9d.).
 * o this time, may be found in Mr. William
 * here is Mr. Hamel's life of ' Agnes Sorel ' (3s. Qd.),

Studies or monographs on individual painters and on schools of painters are fairly numerous, especially in Messrs. Rimell's list.

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