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French Revolution,' invites us, in a very impres- sive manner, to contemplate the excesses perpe- trated by women, and the instances of the influ- ence wielded by them, during the Terror. We gather that we are meant to infer the danger to humanity of power in the hands of women ; but since examples of the same kind, only yet more forcible, and drawn from many more times and countries, might be brought forward to show the dangers of power in the hands of men, we are left rather at a loss to know to which part of the human race we may reasonably look for safety. Mr. William Hewlett gives us a reply to Mr. Statham's paper ' Oratorio versus Opera,' in which he maintains that there is room for both, and that the waning popularity of the oratorio is at least debatable. In face of the immense amount of literature here and in America concerned with the subject, we hardly understand Mr. Macnamara's opening statement, in his paper on ' A Physiological Basis for Education,' to the effect that " education has hitherto for the most part been treated as having no physio- logical basis, and that the time seems to have arrived when an attempt should be made," &c. Nor did we find that he had anything to offer beyond what every one really interested in educa- tion must have read many times over in the works of many different writers.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MAY.

MB. BARNARD'S 'Tracts and Broadsides' Cata- logue 54 (Tunbridge Wells), even as a list of titles, -&c., forms diverting reading. He says the items come chiefly from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As a matter of fact, out of 620 only 9 belong to the former, but, as was to be expected, these few outweigh in interest a goodly number of the later productions. All but one are religious, .and the three best are connected with the Brownists : (1) Browne's own " A Booke which sheweth the life and manners of all true Christians, and howe vnlike they are vnto Turkes and Papistes and

Heathen folke Chiefly black-letter, 4to, Middel-

bvrgh, Richard Painter, 1582," first edition, .agreeing with the copy in the British Museum, hitherto the only copy of the book known in its longer form, 151 ; (2) "The Rasing of the Fovnda-

tions of Brovvnisme (by S. Bredwell), 4to,

London, lohn Windet, 1588," first edition, 51. ; and (3) "A Short Treatise against the Donatists of

England whom we call Brownists By George

Giffard, Minister of God's holy Word in Maldon, 4to, London, John W T indet, for Toby Cooke, 1590," first edition, having Windet's device " non solo pane vivet homo " on the title-page, SI. 15s. In the next century we noticed as interesting Thomas Young's ' Englands Bane : or, The Description of Drunk- nnesse,' 31. 3s.; (Prince) 'Rupert's Sumpter, and Private Cabinet rifled. And a Discovery of a Pack of his Jewels. By way of Dialogue betweene Mercurius Britannicus and Mercurius Aulicus,' 4to, London, 1644, 2. 2s. ; ' An Ordinance of Parlia- ment, For the Apprehending and bringing to condigne punishment, all such lewd persons as shall steale, sell, buy, inveigle, purloyne, convey or receive any little children. And for the strict and . diligent search of all Ships and other Vessels on the River, or at the Downes,' black-letter, broadside, London, 1645, 3. 15s. ; Evelyn's ' Fumifugium : or

The Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London

dissipated 1661,' first edition, 11. 10,<. ; and

' The Grand Concern of England explained, in several Proposals offered to the Consideration of the Parliament,' among which it is proposed " that a Stop be put to further Buildings in and about London," that Brandy, Coffee, Mum [sic], Tea, and Chocolata may be prohibited," and " that the Newcastle-Trade for Coals may be managed by Commissioners," 1673, 21. 10s.

MESSRS. BOWES & BOWES, of Cambridge, in their Catalogue 358, have several items derived from the libraries of the late John Willis Clark arid W. Chawner. The best is the ' Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Archi- tecture, 1 in the whole five editions, 1836-50. This set belonged to the late Prof. R. Willis, and com- prises two copies of the second edition, of which one is interleaved with MS. notes by him. Other volumes also are illustrated with a number of MS. notes ; the fifth edition being interleaved into 2 vols. for that purpose, 61. 6s. R. T. Hampson's ' Medii JEvi Kalendarium,' or dates, charters, and customs of the Middle Ages, with Kalendars from the tenth to the fifteenth century, 2 facsimiles, 1841, is offered for 15s. For Mr. Aldis Wright's facsimile of the MS. of Milton's Minor Poems in Trinity College Library, Cambridge folio, privately printed, 1899 31s. 6d. is asked. Prof. Willis's ' Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eton,' edited with additions by John Willis Clark an example of the special edition of 120 copies printed on large paper, in which the illustrations are all printed flat and not folded is to be had for "I. 17s. 60?. An in- teresting item, the price of which is 21. 10s., is a set of ten portfolios containing cardboard cuttings to scale, which are to be put together to make models of well-known buildings. Among these are the cathedrals of Canterbury and York, an Egyptian temple, and the Catacombs. The models were apparently made by Prof. Willis himself.

[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]

INDICATION OF HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST BY THE L.C.C.

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