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formed by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundcl,' is -a piece of careful work by Mr. Lionel Oust, who also shows that a supposed portrait of Louise La Valliere at Windsor Castle is in reality a portrait of Elizabeth, Duchess of Orleans, granddaughter of Elizabeth of Bohemia.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. AUGUST.

MR. BERTRAM DOBELL'S first Catalogue of Auto- graphs comprises manuscripts of literary interest, together with a large collection of autograph letters. In it will be found unpublished poems of Dr. Joseph Beaumont, author of ' Psyche ' ; a play of Dryden's with corrections in the author's hand ; unpublished plays by Leigh Hunt ; and a large collection of unpublished Scots poems. Under Joanna Baillie are about 110 letters to Miss Holford, afterwards Mrs. Hodson ; also about 50 from Miss Bowdler to Miss Holford, 16Z. 16s. The Beaumont poems are in a 4to volume bound in calf, 1643-52, 45Z. .Among the autograph letters we note one in which Canon Ainger writes : " Though I read Browning I don't understand him." There are letters of Dickens and Emerson. Edward Freeman writes: "I knew Hannah More very well when I was a little boy, before 1829 I never saw her after that. She petted me as she petted Macaulay twenty-two years earlier. But I never, like him, offered her a glass of old spirits." Froude writes : " I have not the slightest doubt that the poor woman [Amy Rob- sart] was murdered, not perhaps with Leicester's knowledge, but by officious friends who wished to open the road to his promotion." Thomas Hood writes to his wife as " My own dearest and best " ; and Ernest Jones to Jerdan, asking him to speak on his behalf to the editor of The Court Journal, to which paper, under the signature of " Karl," " The Student," &c., he had been a con- tributor for some years. Among Lander's is one to " Dear Mrs. Brough " : " Never talk of dismal weather no such can exist in any house where you happen to be." In another Landor writes that he is " deeply grieved to see my old friend The Examiner become the camp follower of The Times in the attack on Kossuth." Glad- stone, Palmerston, Bright, Hallam, Mrs. Fitz- herbert, Hartley Coleridge, George Crabbe, and Douglas Jerrold are also represented in the Catalogue.

Mr. George Gregory's Bath Catalogue 205-6 contains a fine example of the Plantin Press under Chifletius (The Brothers), ' Miscellanea Chifletiana,' 7 vols., small 4to, calf, illustrated throughout with beautiful copper-plate engravings, 6Z. 6s. Among many cheap items are Cowper, edited by Grim- shawe, 8 vols. ; D' Israeli's ' Curiosities of Lite- rature,' 6 vols., half-calf ; Madame D'Arblay's ' Diary,' 4 vols. ; and Miss Ferrier's ' The In- heritance,' second edition. Other works are ' Histoire des Papes,' 45 steel plates, 10 vols., royal 8vo, 1842-4, 21. 10s. ; Pote's ' Windsor Castle,' 4to, calf, 1749, 21. 2s. ; the Oxford fac- simile of the First Folio, No. 736 (limited to 1,000), 81. ; and Sowerby's ' Botany,' 27 vols., half- calf, 1790-1808, 10Z. There are magazines, reviews, and Transactions, besides a number of Camden Society publications. Works under Medical and Surgical include Allbutt's ' System,' 329 illustrations, 30 charts, and 17 coloured plates,

8 vols., 1896-9, 11. 15s. ; and Power and Sidg- wick's ' New Sydenham Society's Lexicon,' 5 vols., 4to, half-morocco, 1881-99, 11. Is. There are illustrated books of the sixties, and a number of colour-books. Among Recent Purchases are the first edition of Bacon's ' Advancement of Learn- ing,' 1640, 51. 5s. ; Britton and Brayley's ' Beauties of England and Wales,' 25 vols., half- calf, 1801, 21. 10s. ; and another set, including Introduction, 26 vols., half-russia, 1801-23, 31.

Messrs. James Rimell & Son's Catalogue 226 is devoted to Engravings of the English School. Among those after L. F. Abbott is ' W 7 illiam Innes, walking, carrying Golf Club, with Attend- ant,' a fine coloured mezzotint by V. Green, 1790, 311. 10s. Under Aikman is John Gay,' oval mezzotint by Kyte, Ql. Under Alken is ' A Bath Coach in a Heavy Rainstorm,' coloured aquatint by Hunt, circa 1820, HZ. There are some Bartolozzis. A portrait of Nelson after Beechey, 1806, a mezzotint by Bell, 1806, is Ql. 9s. There are several after Bunbury and Cipriani. After Constable are a pair of fine mezzotints by Lucas, 1834, 25Z. After Dodd are two of the battle of the Nile, and four plates of the hurricane that destroyed Graves' s squadron onl6 September, 1782. Those after Gainsborough include Garrick and George IV. when Prince of Wales ; and those after Hogarth, Lady Byron, great-grandmother of the poet. There are many after Hoppner. Romneys include Burke, mezzo- tint by Jones in square frame, rare, 50Z. ; and a gortrait of Mrs. Jordan in the character of the ountry Girl, stipple by Ogborne, Boydell, 1788, 16Z. 16s. Books of engravings include Barto- lozzi, by Tuer ; Blake's Works ; Burne- Jones, 91 fine photogravure plates, reproduced from the original pictures by the Berlin Photographic Company, 29Z. (limited to 200 copies at 105Z. each) ; Descriptive Catalogue of the Works of Cruikshank from the Truman Collection, 42 Z. ; and Hogarth, from the original plates, Baldwin & Craddock, 1822, imperial folio, half-morocco, a little rubbed, 7Z. 7s. At the end of the Catalogue is an Alphabetical List of Portraits.

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