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NOTES AND QUERIES, [iis.xn. JULY 17, 1915.

\MONG ' Notes of the Month ' in the July Anti- quary is a growl from Glasgow at the Town Council's action in decreeing the removal of the lol- booth Steeple for the widening of the High Street. Mr. Newbery oontribxites a photograph of a pack- horse bridge near Biggleswade ; Mr. Herbert S. Toms, some notes on ' Pigmy Flint Implements found in Sussex ; and Mr. O. G. S. Crawford a paper on the Ansrlo-Saxon bounds of land near Silchester. Mr. Hadrian Allcroft concludes his article on the age of Downland holloways. Smokers will be interested in Mr. Crowther-Beynon s 4 Notes on Tobacco-Stoppers.' He thinks " it is not very easy to understand why the tobacco - stopper that useful little member of the smoker's

outfit should have fallen into almost complete

disuse at the present day." The Duke of Wellington's order prohibiting soldiers from smoking in barracks gave rise to a stopper carica- turing the figure of " Old Nosey." The article Contains illustrations of various stoppers.

Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Fifth Series.

Vol. I. Part VI. (Hughes & Clarke, 2s. Qd.) IR. EVERARD GREEN, Somerset Herald, contri- butes the pedigree of Bishop Lowth. Mr. John A. Inglis writes on the Binnings of Wallyford, a family which claimed descent from William Bunnock, who is the hero in John Barbour's poem ' The Bruce.' There is an exhaustive account of the pedigree of the Ravenscroft family. In reference -to the pedigree of Doddridge, Mr. Sidney E. Doddridge states : "In the September issue I made Philip Doddridge, bapt. Isleworth, 18 July,

1631, to be the ancestor of the American Dodde- ridges. In doing that I relied upon the negative evidence of a friend who copied the Dodderidge entries for me from the Isleworth Register. Thanks, however, to the editor and Mr. T. M. Blagg, I am able to withdraw this, and am glad to do so, seeing that both point out to me that the said Philip Doddridge was buried at Isleworth,

15 Nov., 1633."

The Library Journal for June (New York, R. R. Bowker Co., Is. Qd.) contains a portrait of our old friend Mr. Tedder, Librarian of the Athenaeum Club since 1874, a reproduction of the portrait presented to him by its members. The editor of the Journal refers to his services, in conjunction with Ernest C. Thomas, in the organization of the Library Association of the United Kingdom. Mr. G. W. Lee and Helen Granger discuss dic- tionaries in their third article OH ' Reference Books as Public Utilities,' and ask: "Would it be grossly in error to say that the value of dictionaries in general is 50 per cent for definition, 40 per cent for spelling and pronunciation, and 10 per cent for addenda, including everything that would come under the category frills 2 "^

Among editorial notes is the following : The unfortunate provision in American Tariff legisla- tion, which has found place also in other countries, requiring the country of origin to be plainly marked on any imported article, has been carried to the frequent reductio ad absurdum, in the case of books, by Treasury decisions In an ex- ceptionally absurd instance, the imprint of Long- mans, Green & Co.'s London house was not con- sidered sufficient evidence that the book was made in England because the imprint also bore the names of cities in which the Longmans house had
 * agencies."

FRENCH BOOKS.

THE following notes are selected from the fairly numerous descriptions of French works in current catalogues; we have not included translations, of which there are several good examples.

In the way of ' CEuvres ' we noticed in Messrs. Sotheran's list " Pierre Loti," 27jfvols. (11. 15s.) ; Erckmann-Chatrian, 33 vols. (81.) ; and Prosper Mrim6e, 8 vols. (51. 5s.). Messrs. Rimell have a good copy, in six 8vo volumes, of a fine illustrated eighteenth- century edition of ' Les CEuvres de Moliere,'for which they are asking 45Z.

Among the best copies of single works to be had is a copiously illustrated 'eighteenth-century La Fontaine ' Contes et Nouvelles en Vers ' the " Edition des Fermiers Gnraux," described by Messrs. Rimell (50Z.) ; and another good item of the kind is Nodier's ' Le Dernier Chapitro de mon Roman,' illustrated by Louis Morin. containing also a water-colour drawing and letter by that artist (51.), which is also Messrs. Rimell's.

The F.rench items in Messrs. Maggs's catalogue of autograph letters and MSS. are, with a few striking exceptions, of good medium interest. Among the exceptions we should put a document bearing the signature of Louis XI. (11. 10s.), and a letter, relating to Roundheads in hiding near Geneva, signed by Louis XIV., and dated Paris, 6 March, 1664, as well as an autograph letter of Madame de Pompadour (15Z.). However, the most showy item goes far beyond these ; it is a collection (in a jewelled binding) of original letters and. documents forming ' A Memento of the Four Napoleons,' further " embellished " by miniatures of the four on ivory. Napoleon IV. whom we know better as the Prince Imperial is represented by a letter written by him at Hastings, on the day (7 September) of his arrival in Eng- land in the flight after Sedan, to Miles. Frotat at Brighton. " God will do us justice," the child writes, " and our day will come." The memento costs 350Z., and includes, besides the miniatures, 107 precious stones.

Both Messrs. Sotheran's and Messrs. Rimell's collections are well worth consideration in the matter of French science and of French works 0:1 art ; and the latter subject is also abundantly exemplified in the French items in the catalogue recently issued by Mr. P. M. Barnard of Tun- bridge Wells. Mr. Barnard has likewise four rather good French Bibles, the best of which, however, is, strictly speaking, not French, being a product of the press of Martin Lempereur of Antwerp, 1534 (2Z. 15s.).

Our next notice will deal with Engravings and books on Art and Architecture.

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately, nor can we advise correspondents as to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them.

EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to "The Editor of ' Notes and Queries'" Adver- tisements and Business Letters to " The Pub- lishers "at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.G.

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