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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. NOV. n, 1911.

List of the Livery of London, with their places of abode and businesses, under the heads of their respective Companies, distinguishing by italics those who are not free of the City &c. To which is added an useful Index. By T. Tom- lins. (1775. ) The Index is not of names, but of the Companies, and the names are alphabetical.

The City of London Year-Book and Civil Directory for 1910. Including Livery Companies' Guide, List of Liverymen Voters, a Biographical Directory, Corporation Directory (including the Committees of the Court of Common Coun- cil), London County Council Directory (includ- ing its Committees), Lloyd's, Baltic and Stock Exchange, Members of Parliament, City Chari- ties, Hospitals and Schools, Churches. Super- seded the City of London Directory. Index.

A. RHODES.

(To be continued.)

MRS. GRACE DALRYMPLE ELLIOTT ( 1 1 S. ii. 324, 371). As I am at present engaged in editing the diaries of Grace Dalrymple Elliott's niece (Frances, Lady Shelley), in which there is an account of that remarkable woman, I should be really grateful to MR. HORACE BLEACKLEY if he would state his reason for saying that " Grace's name should be spelt Eliot." Lady Shelley spells it " Elliott."

I should also be grateful to MR. HARVEY GEM if he would favour me by allowing me to see his copy of Grace Balrymple's book ' Journal of my Life during the French Revolution.' According to Lady Shelley, the book was published by the heroine's granddaughter. RICHARD EDGCUMBE.

Edgbarrow, Crowthorne, Berks.

EIGHTEENTH - CENTURY SCHOOL - BOOK (11 S. iv. 289). -The book that W. B. H. possesses is evidently one of the later editions of Hoole's ' Commenius,' of which the full title of the first edition is as follows :

" Joh. Amos Commenii | Orb is | sensualium | Pictus : | Hoc est | Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, | & in vita Actlonum, | Pictura & nomenclatura. |

" Joh. Amos Commenius's | Visible | World : | or, | a Picture and Nomenclature of all the Chief Things | that are in the world ; and of mens employment therein. | A work newly written by the Author in Latine (and High-Dutch) being one of his last Essays, and the | most suitable to childrens capacities of any that he | hath hitherto made I and translated into English. I By Charles Hoole, M.A. |

" For the Use of Young Latine-Scholars. I Nihil est in intellects quod non prius fuit in sensu. Arist. j LONDON, | Printed by T. B. for S. Mearne, Book-binder I to the Kings most ExceUent Majesty, 1672."

The engravings in this edition are copper- plates ; in the later editions these were super- seded by rough woodcuts. The twelfth

edition, dated 1777, has these woodcuts ; it contains CLIII. headings, text ending on p. 197 ; then follow 1 page blank, and 6 pp. of Index not numbered. There are, in the copy of this edition which I have examined, 8 pp. before the paging of the text commences. The book is in twelves, and the size of the above copy, apparently in original binding, is 6f in. by 3H in. The editor was a Mr. Jones.

Comenius was celebrated for this book and his 'Janua [or Porta] Linguarum Reserata,' of which I have the following Editions: London, 1639;.Amst., Elzevir, 1649 ; and London, 1659. The copy of the last belonged to Archdeacon Nares, who made this note on the fly-leaf :

" Sorbiere, who knew Comenius, speaks of him as an adventurer and impostor, ' Sorberiana,' 61 p., and Bayle fully confirms that opinion. Among other things he set up for a prophet, or infallible interpreter of the prophets. His 'Janua,' however, and his ' Orbis sensualium,' had a prodigious success throughout Europe. See Bayle in Comenius."

JOHN HODGKIN.

W. B. H.'s school-book must be the ' Orbis Pictus.' My copy is a demy 18mo, calf bound, and entitled :

" Joh. Amos Commenii | Orbis Sensualium Pictus : I hoc est, | Omnium principalium in Mundo Be- | rum, & in vita Actionum, | Pictura & Nomenclatura. | Joh. Amos Commenius s | Visible World : | or, a | Nomenclature, and Pic- tures ; I of all | The chief things that are in the World, I and of Mens Employments therein ; | In above an 150 Copper Cuts. | Written | By the Author in Latin and High-Dutch | being one of his last Essays, and the most | suitable to Childrens Capacities of any that | he hath hitherto made. I Translated into English | By Charles Hoole, M.A. | For the Use of Young Latin Scholars. | Nihil est in intellectu, quod non prius fuit in sensu. Arist. I London. Printed for, and sold by John Sprint, at the | Bell in Little Britain. 1705."

My College library has another copy. This is a demy 12mo, bound in paper boards. There is no alteration in the title except the omission of the word " copper " before "cuts," and the addition of "The Twelfth Edition. Corrected and Enlarged and the English made to answer Word for Word to the Latin." The imprint is "London: printed for S. Leacroft, at the Globe, Charing Cross. MDCCLXXVII."

The ' Orbis Pictus ' was for some time the most popular school-book in Europe. The first edition of the original was printed at Nuremberg in 1658, so Hoole must have procured a copy of it almost immediately, as the preface to his translation is dated 25 January, 1658 (N.S. 1659). The eleventh