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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vm. AUG. 2, 1913. of Dickens,' chatty and long, may serve well to while away a summer afternoon with pleasant recollections. 'George Meredith's Letters,' of which Mr. S. R. Ellis here gives us some specimens, show explicit and active those qualities of harshness and depression which lie perdues in his works. Heine and Ibsen—on whom respectively Mr. Franklin Peterson and Mr. Robb Lawson discourse—make up, with Meredith, an instructive trio for a study of the relations between genius, temperament, and the conditions of modern civilization. We may also notice an interesting account of Bishop Morley's library by Canon Vaughan, who is satisfied that practically the whole of it was restored by Winchester College to the Cathedral Library; and Mrs. Woods's address on 'Poetry: and Women Poets as Artists,' originally given at the Women Writers' Dinner last June.

August Cornhill has several good things in it. The prevailing note is—for a summer holiday number—curiously grave. In at least five of the papers the dominating idea is, in different ways, memento mori. An anonymous writer gives us a moving and not unskilful portrait of the late Alfred Lyttelton. Sir Frederic Kenyon—while we are grateful to him for the example he quotes in full of Elizabeth Barrett's detailed criticism of Browning's verse—draws out all the melancholy significance of the sale of the Browning MSS. Miss Rose Macaulay's 'The Empty Berth,' once you have made up your mind to believe it, is a good ghost-story, delightfully told. 'In Piam Memoriam G. B.,' by Mr. Walter Frith, and 'Father Michael,' by Mr. John Barnett, again are strong and evenly written stories which derive their interest from outre-tombe. We liked much Sir Henry Lucy's paper on 'Fanny Burney at Norbury Park,' and Lieut.-Col. MacMunn gives us a fine and stirring picture—again de mortuis—of 'Dawn at Delhi.' Dr. [[Author:Squire Sprigge|Squire Sprigge'' discusses pretty thoroughly the medical man in Dickens, and comes to the conclusion that Dickens treated medicine well, in which we barely agree with him; for it seems to us that to create a general impression of comic futility is not really less unkind to a profession than to select from it a round villain or two.

's Catalogue 218 contains among black-letter books 'Alexis of Piemont,' 2 vols. in 1, 1559—60, 7l. 15s. The list under Bacon includes the 'Advancement of Learning,' folio, original cloth, 1640, 2l. 10s. There is the first edition of Collins's 'Odes,' 1747, 5l. 5s.; also the first edition of D'Avenant's 'Gondibert,' a fine copy, calf extra by Bedford, 3l. 10s. There is a list under Drama. Under Pierce Egan is the first edition of 'Life in London,' 1821, 4l. 4s. Another first edition is that of Montaigne, 1603, 10l. 10s. Under Lamb is the first edition of 'Album Verses,' 1830, 2l. 10s. The first edition of 'Rhoda Fleming,' 3 vols., 1865, is priced 3l. 10s. Other items include Ray's 'Proverbs,' first edition/morocco extra, 1670, 2l. 2s.'; Figuier's 'Histoire des Plantes,' morocco extra, Hachette, 1865, 4l. 10s. (this copy is from the library of Ruskin's secretary Hilliard, and contains an inscription by Ruskin); and Webster's 'Witchcraft,' copy in the original calf, 1677, 2l. 15s.

MR. \YILLIAM GLAISHER has a Catalogue of Remainders. We note a few : ' The Life of Count Bernstorff,' 2 vols., 4s. Qd., published at

Era,' 3s. 9c7. (10s. Qd.). Garstang's 'Burial Cus- toms of Ancient History,' 12s. (II. Us. Qd.). Mrs. Lampson's * A Quaker Post - Bag,' 2s. (8s. Qd.). Sykes's ' Persia,' 3s. (10s. Qd.].

MESSRS. M. A. HUGHON, BOURDIN & Co.'s Catalogue 21 contains Court Memoirs, also French Memoirs. Among these is ' Liste des Contre- ReVolutionnaires et Revolted de la ci-devant Ville de Lyon,' 2 parts in 1, red morocco, " Paris, de 1'Imp. du Calculateur Pairiote, au corps sans tete, an II.," 5?. 5s. Under Louis XVII. is Laurentie's ' Life,' 147 plates, one of 400 copies, Paris, 1913, 11. 10s. Under Costumes Militaires is De Viel Castel's work, folio, half morocco,

wrappers, Paris, 1858-69, Ql. There are works under Oxford ; and under Holbein are a number of portraits offered singly, engraved from the original drawings by F. Bartolozzi and others. Mr. Bourdin offers for 300?. a collection of Anarchist- Literature he has made.

MR. HERBERT T. POTTER has opened a book- shop in High Street, Marylebone, and sends us his first Catalogue from that address. He has the Winchester Edition of Jane Austen, 12 vols., 11. 12s. Qd., and the Thornton Edition of the novels of the Bronte sisters, 11. 10s. There are also some volumes and parts of the Zoological Society Transactions, offered for 81. 10s. (published at

MESSRS. HENRY YOUNG & SONS of Liverpool have sent us their Catalogue 441. They have a good Breviary in late fifteenth -century MS. by a Flemish scribe, written in gothic letters and abundantly illuminated, 30/. ; three albums of Chinese paintings ; Thomas Pennant's collection of coloured figures of birds, over a thousand in num- ber, bound in 7 vols. (1770-90), 38Z. j a copy of the original edition of Buck's 'Antiquities,' 3 vols., 774, 521. 10s. ; an extra-illustrated copy of the Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence f Miss Berry,' 1866, 151. ; Myddylton and Pyn- on's Froissart, 1525, 251, also from Thomas Pen- mnt's library ; a number of works on Railways, of vhich Booth's 'Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway' (1830, 81. 8s.) is among the 3est; and Randle Holme's 'The Academy of Armory,' 1688, 181. 18s. This is, of course, to ingle out an item here and there from an instruc- ive collection of works of varied interest.

[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]

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