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more beautiful name than this ! The Common House ! " The author feels some discomfort over the ineligibility of domestic servants for election to the Municipal Council a fact which does seem to spoil the " eloquent simplicity " of " liberty, equality, fraternity. .. .upon a public monu- ment." But humour is not a strand in this work, which perhaps would attract no attention save by its distinguished authorship. There is, however, a clear outline no more of the modern French educational system, and readers who have not the history of French imposts at their fingers' ends may cull interesting details from chap. xii. on ' The Budget and Taxation.'

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. SEPTEMBER.

DEIGHTON & BELL'S Cambridge Catalogue 25 contains General, Theological, Classical, and Scientific Literature, a useful list. Among special items we find under Mathematics a complete set with index of Cayley's ' Mathematical Papers,' edited by Prof. A. B. Forsyth, 14 vols., 4to, Cambridge, 1889-98, 10Z. Under Spix are ' Avium Species Novae,' 1825-40, 2 vols., III., and Spix et Agassiz, 1829-31, folio, 81. There is a copy of the Edition de Luxe of Byron, 1898-1904, 13 vols., 4to (only 250 printed), 11. Is. Under Shakespeare i=; the reproduction of the four folios, 1904-10, IQl. JOs.

MR. F. MARCHAM'S New Southgate Catalogue 29 opens with a letter by John Dickens, written from 29, Johnson Street, Somers Town, on October 6th, 1825, enclosing a draft for payment two months and nineteen days after date. The letter, which appears to be unknown, refers to the fees for the musical education of Miss Dickens (afterwards Mrs. Burnett). The amount due to the Royal Academy of Music was 32Z. 14s. ll^d. The price of the letter is 31Z. 10s. Under America is a collection of 170 letters and enclosures to Spring Bice, all sent in answer to a circular letter to The Globe December 11, 1837, 1 vol., folio, old calf, 211. Under Family Histories, Pedigrees, and Memoirs we find the names of Cavendish, Cornewall, Douglas, and Percy. Under London and Middlesex are Cruchley's New Plan of London, 1829, 10*. ; and a manuscript by T. C. Noble in reference to Lincoln's Inn Fields Old Theatre, with extracts from books concerning Gay's 1710-29, 90 pp., 4to, 31. 3s. There are also Boad Books, and works on Hertfordshire, Kent, and Oxfordshire.
 * ' Persons in Beceipt of Pensions," published in
 * Beggar's Opera ' and other interesting matters,

MR. W. M. MURPHY'S Liverpool Catalogue 186 has recent purchases, some from the library of Thomas Pennant. A handsome set of Pun<h to 1911, the original edition throughout, is 27Z. 10s. Lists of works will be found under America, Harleian Society, and India. Dryden and Gray, in Pickering's Aldine Edition of the Poets, are priced 21. 10s. each ; and a copy of Pierce Egan's ' Boxiana,' 1821-4, is 31. 5s. Under French Illustrated Memoirs are the Me- moires du Due de Sully, 3 vols., contemporary oalf, 1747, Ql. 10s. There is a fine copy of Kinglake's ' Crimea,' 8 vols., tree calf, 11. 10s. Under Scotland is a Boad Book, 1776, 11. 15s. Under Thackeray is the first edition of ' The

Kickleburys on the Bhine,' original boards, 1850, 21. The first edition of Newman's ' Apologia ' is 14s. Among works on Yorkshire is Oliver's ' Beverley,' 4to, 1829, 20s.

MESSRS. W. N. PITCHER & Co. of Manchester have in their Catalogue 219 Angelo's ' Beminis- cences,' large paper, limited to 75 copies, 1904, also ' The Picnic,' limited to 50 copies, together 3 vols., Ql. 10s. Under Arctic is Scott's ' Voyage of the Discovery,' 2 vols., 1905, II. Under Balzac is the ' Comedie Humaine,' 30 vols., 51. 5s. (published at 14Z.). Under Chetham Society is a set, 1844-1910, 185 vols., 18Z. 18s. ; and under Coaching is Cross's ' Autobiography,' Edition de Luxe, limited to 50 copies, as new, 31. There are first editions of Dickens, besides a collection of books and pamphlets relating to him, 1842-1904, 51. 10s. The Library Edition of Dryden, 10 vols., 1821, with Life by Scott, is 101. 10s. ; Havelock Ellis's * Psychology of Sex,' 6 vols., Philadelphia, Ql. ; Gillray's ' Caricatures,' 3 vols., 51. ; Hogarth, from the original plates, restored by Heath, including the suppressed plates, atlas folio, Baldwin & Cradock, 31. 5s. ; and Johnson, Literary Club Edition, 16 vols., Troy, New York, 1903, 31. 3s. Under Lancashire is the third edition of Pilkington's ' History of the Pilkington Family,' 1912, 51.

MESSRS. SIMMONS & WATERS of Leamington Spa also send two Catalogues, Nos. 276-7. The former contains a selection from two famous Warwickshire libraries. We note the following, which are extra-illustrated : Johnson's ' Tour of the Hebrides,' 10 vols., full blue morocco gilt, 1839, 15Z. 15s. ; Charles and Mary Lamb's Complete Works, with Life by E. V. Lucas, full crimson morocco, 1903-5, the set, 16Z. 16s. ; Pepys's ' Diary,' 5 vols., 1848, full morocco, 81. 8s. ; and Strickland's ' Queens of England,' 6 vols., half calf, 4Z. 10s. Other items include ' Cambridge Modern History,' 13 vols., 1903-11, 11. la. ; and Dugdale's ' Origines Juridiciales,' first edition, 1666, folio, U. 17s. Qd. A copy of the ' Idylls of the King,' with Tennyson's signa- ture, 1888, is 51.

Catalogue 277 comprises autograph letters with brief biographical notes. Among the writers represented are William Allingham, Tadema, Bellew, Sir H. Bishop, the poet Bloomfield, Miss Braddon, Lord Brougham, George Canning, and Leigh Hunt. There are over 900 lots in all.

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MR. J. ISAACS. Accounts of Albert Bichard Smith are to be seen in many biographical dictionaries and encyclopaedias. The ' D.N.B.* devotes nearly three columns to him.