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NOTES AND QUERIES, m s. vni. NOV. s, 1913. is unsatisfactory, consisting as it does merely of assertions and examples from plays. His thesis that unabashed statement of hideous evil is in itself a sign of strength and health needs some drawing out and discussion in order to be made convincing. George Paston's 'Apostle of Melodrama' is Fitzball, and the account given of the strange, to us the almost incredible, career of the writer of 'Thirty-Five Years of a Dramatic Author's Life' is well done. Miss E. Vaughan's 'The Early Days of Elizabeth Blackwell' is, again, an article worth noting.

The Nineteenth Century for November has an article, at once entertaining and hortatory, on 'Paris this Autumn' from the pen of Sir Harry Johnston. He points out many details in the management of life in Paris that are in need of reform, but his principal plea is for better and quicker communication between Paris and the South of England. Dr. Georges Chatterton-Hill, who has already manifested his interest in the revival of Catholicism in France, contributes a study of M. Charles Péguy's work—little known among ourselves—which has been an instrument in that revival in so far as literature is concerned. The evidence he brings forward in support of his claims for M. Péguy, and the examples he furnishes, are curiously unequal in value, illustrating, though not in every case intentionally, the weaker as fully as the stronger side of the revival. Mr. E. Smithson on 'Ben Jonson's Pious Fraud' is more clever and less dull than the Baconian controversialist often manages to show himself. The rest of the papers are of social or political interest. We have a welcome account because sober and impartial of the working of Woman Suffrage in the countries where it has been established, by Bishop Frodsham, and a suggestion from Mr. S. M. Mitra for the settlement in England of the vexed question of "votes for women"—one which, however, we fear, is likely to commend itself to few practical persons of either party in the controversy. Mr. R. Fleming Johnston's paper on 'The Religious Future of China' should meet with attention; and there are good articles on 'Ulster' (Prof. J. H. Morgan) and the Insurance Act (the Rev. J. Frome Wilkinson), Lord Ailesbury, Mr. Robertson-Scott and Mr. Mallock have papers on 'The Rural Problem.'

of Cambridge, in their Catalogue 104, describe nearly 3,500 items in the way of books on Mathematical, Physical, and Natural Science. Many of these are old works of considerable antiquarian interest, and there are also a number of good sets of periodicals. Thus there are a copy, in 5 vols., and having good MS. notes in the margins, of the only collected edition of Isaac Newton's works, 1779-85, 9l. 9s.; Joanne Zahn's 'Specula Physico-Mathematico-Historica,' Novimbergæ, 1696, 3l. 3s.; Thomas Tusser's "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,' black-letter, 4to, 1638, 2l. 10s.; Martius's (C. Fr. P. de) "Genera et species palmarum quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis 1817-1820collegit, descripsit et iconibus illustravit," 3 vols. (with coloured plates), 35l.; a copy of Sowerby's 'English Botany,' 1899, 15l. 15s.; Schreber's Die Säugethiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibung,' 1775-1847, 26l.; and a run of the 'Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie,' Leipzig, 1551.

his Catalogue No. 395 M. Martinus Nijhoff of La Haye has, among others, the following interesting items to offer : (German) a fourteen- years' run from the first number of Simplicissimiis (1896-1910), 225fr. ; (French) ' Collection des Chroniqueurs et Trouveres beiges,' published by the Academie de Bruxelles, 1863-91, 250fr. ; 'La Sphere des deux mondes .... composes en

francois, par Darinel, pasteur des Amadis

sur les noces et mariage de Don Philippe Roy

d'Angleterre,' Anyers, J. Richart, 1555, 250fr. ; a complete collection up to 1910, in 90 volumes, of the publications of the Societ4 des Anciens Textes, 400fr. ; and (Spanish) a collection of 127 original pieces ("romances, chansons, relations, &c.") in Castilian and Catalan, of the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth cen- turies, 125fr.

MR. CHAS. J. ' SAWYER'S Catalogue No. 34 contains a number of highly interesting items, from which we may cite the following examples ; ' Beaux and Belles of England,' a collection of biographies and memoirs, reprinted, many of them from scarce editions, and abundantly illus- trated, 29 vols. (of which only 1,000 copies were issued), Grolier Society, n.d., 12Z. 15s. ; a copy of Dr. Wright's ' English Dialect Dictionary ' (1898-1905), 81. 8s. ; a set of Maria Edgeworth's Tales and Novels, 18 vols., 1832-3, 4?. 17s. Qd. ; the ' Memoirs of Count Grammont,' by Anthony Hamilton, 1811, 81. 8s. ; the Grolier Society's edition of Hazlitt's ' Life of Napoleon,' 5?. 10s. ; a first edition of Scott's ' Tales of my Landlord,' containing ' The Black Dwarf ' and ' Old Mor- tality,' Edinburgh, 1816, 51. 10s. ; a first edition of Hogg's ' Life of Shelley,' 1858, 21. 15s. ; a first edition of Wordsworth's ' Waggoner.' Brown- ing's copy, with his initials on the title-page, 1819, 61. 10s. ; and a copy of Moxon's edition (1849) of Wordsworth's ' Works,' in 7 vols., 4Z. 7s. Qd.

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