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at Bishop's Stortford,' with the last portion of contributed by the late J. Tavenor-Perry, com- prise, with the usual ' Notes ' and reviews, the last examples of curious research and pleasant learning which lovers of what is old will gather from these familiar pages. ' The Sign of the Owl,' we notice, was hauled down in November.
 * Some Unrestored Churches in Kent and Sussex,'

The Editor, in a Note in the last number, takes leave of his readers : The Antiquary is to be given up. We are sincerely sorry to hear it. During an existence of thirty-six years it has attracted to itself the work of many capable and ingenious writers, and the esteem of many appreciative readers, doing its part towards keep- ing alert and extending that humane and affec- tionate feeling for our general heritage from the past which has been so grossly outraged by pur enemy in France and in Belgium. The Editor reminds us in his farewell paragraph that he has been for seventeen years in charge of the magazine, and while we congratulate him on being able to look back on so long a term of genial service to his fellow-countrymen, we heartily condole with him on having his labours brought to so abrupt an nd, and that by an agency so cruel.

We must add one more word. We learn that a leaflet was inserted in some copies of the last number of The Antiquary : announcing that the journal would be amalgamated with ' N. & Q.' No such leaflet appeared in our own copy, and up to the time of going to press we have not been able to obtain" a sight of one. We should like our readers to understand that whatever was the statement thus circulated, it was not authorized

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY WORKS.

A GOOD deal of curious and also so to put it ome solid interest still attaches to eighteenth- century work in philology, and those who have A mind for this will be entertained by Messrs. Sotheran's new catalogue (760), which describes books on that subject, and several eighteenth- century items among them. Thus they have in six 8vo vols. Monboddo's extraordinary disserta- tion '.Of the Origin and Progress of Language,' the second edition (1774-92, II. Is.), and a copy of the work of the early Anglo-Saxon scholar Elizabeth Elstob, ' An English-Saxon Homily on the Birthday of St. Gregory .... translated into Modern English,' having" a portrait of the editress, and bound in old calf (1709, Is. 6d.). Fry's ' Pantographia, containing Accurate Copies of all the known Alphabets in the World' (1799), is not dear for a good copy at 10s. 6d. ; and for the same moderate sum may be obtained the ' Lexi- con JEgyptiaco-Latinum ' of La Croze a copy bearing some notes by the late Robert Atkinson. Messrs. Sotheran have, further, one copy each of Cocker's ' English Dictionary ' and of Bailey's Supplementary ' Dictionarium Britannicum,' as well as a sixth edition of Phillips's ' New World of Words ' (1706, II. Is.).

In the way of eighteenth- century first editions, we have noted, among others, Swift's ' Tale of a Tub ' (Mr. James Miles of Leeds, 11. Is.) ; Boswell's | ' Life of Johnson ' (Messrs. Maggs, two copies, 16Z. 16s. and 14Z. 14s.) ; Pope's ' Essay on Man,' two copies, of which the better has the first issues ' of Parts I. and II. (Messrs. Maggs, 311. Ws. and

251.) ; a complete set of Richardson's Novels (Messrs. Maggs, 110Z.) ; and White's ' Selborne ' (Mr. Charles Sawyer, Ql. 17s. Qd.). We may also mention here that Mr. Charles Sawyer offers for 60Z. the armchair of the poet Gray, part of the " furniture of my chambers at Cambridge," which, according to his will, was divided between his two cousins this chair falling to Mary Antrobus. We have no doubt that a relic of such great inte- rest will attract the attention of some person or society able to give it a suitable resting-place.

There are, further, to be had many books of less classic interest than the above, but dear, for different reasons, to the hearts of collectors in this or that subject. Thus Mr. Andrew Baxen- dine of Edinburgh offers for 21. 2s. Roy's ' Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain ' a publication issued in 1793 by the direction of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Thus also Samuel Foote's ' Dramatic Works ' turn up in the catalogue of Messrs. Henry Young & Sons of Liverpool, who offer a nice old set (1778) for 1Z. 5s. ; and in that of Mr. Sawyer, who has the 1788 edition with a life of the author (1Z. 2s.). Mr. Sawyer has, besides, " Perdita's " poems, with a coloured stipple portrait of the actress and author (17s. Qd.) ; an interesting copy of J. T. Smith's ' Remarks on Rural Scenery ' (1797), to be had for 2Z. 12s. ; and three MS. journals of a man named H. White, apparently servant to Capt. Smith, who between August, 1797, and October, 1800, was serving in the West Indies, in command, first of the Hannibal and then of the Carnatic (7Z. 10s.). Mr. Gilbert of Winchester has the 1780 edition of Sterne's ' Works,' in 10 vols. crown 8vo (1Z. 18s.). Mr. Miles has Stock- dale's edition of Gay's ' Fables,' with Blake's engravings (II. 15s.), and three volumes of ' Works of the most celebrated Minor Poets,' a collection published in 1749, and including poems by Rpscommon, Dorset. Garth, Stepney, Ambrose Phillips, and several others, certainly not dear at 5s.

Messrs. Maggs's latest catalogue is a list of their Engravings, Etchings, and Drawings, and of these a large proportion, especially of portraits, are eighteenth-century work. We have spaco to mention only Conde's engraving after Cosway's ' Mrs. Tickell.' printed in colours (100Z.) ; Faber's ' Peg Woffington as Mrs. Ford,' after Haytley (52Z. 10s.) ; and a delightful French engraving, ' The Fine Musitioners,' Bonnet after Boucher (105Z.).

Finally we may draw attention to a list, in the catalogue of Mr. J. Thomson of Edinburgh, of some 180 book-plates, the great majority of which are of the eighteenth century.

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