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 iis.v.jo-E29,i9i2.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Turner (.T. H.), Ten Thousand Yorkshire Books : a Handbook for Buyers and Sellers. Bradford. Announced for publication.

Hptten (John Camden) and Cole (John), Bibliographical Account of nearly 1.500 Curious and Rare Books, &c. (from the library of John Cole of Scarborough), relating to the History and Topography of Yorkshire, with numerous Descriptive Notes. Hotten, 1863.

Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets relating to Yorkshire, pp. 89. Bradford, 1892, Brad- ford free Libraries.

Catalogue of the Library of the York- shire Archaeological Society, 1884-97.

Catalogue of the Library of the Yorkshire Archaeol. and Topographical Association. Huddersfield, 1888.

Smyth (John), Catalogue of his Books relating to Yorkshire at Heath, Pontefract, 1809.

Curtis (E.), A Short Bibliography of the History of Sheffield (Historical Association Leaflet, 1911).

Freemantle (W. T.), Bibliography of Sheffield and Vicinity, Section I. (to 1700). Sheffield, Pawson & Brailsford. Announced to be issued.

Catalogue of the Sheffield Central Library, 1890. Parts III. and IV. contain a Biblio- graphy of Sheffield.

Empsall (T. T.), Bibliography of Bradford (in Bradford Antiquary, vols. i. and ii., 1888, &c.).

Nodal (J. H.), Bibliography of Ackworth School, 1889.

Smales (Gideon), Whitby Authors and Books printed in Whitby. Whitby, 1867.

Rayner (Simeon) and Smith " (William), History of Pudsey, 1887 (Bibliography, pp. 177-84).

Baker (J. B.), History of Scarborough, 1882 (Bibliography), pp. 518-20).

Hawkesbury (Lord), Catalogue of East Riding Portraits at Kirkham Abbey and at 2, Carlton House Terrace (East Riding Antiq. Soc., xiii. 1-139).

Wilson (Edmund), Two Old Plans of Leeds (Thoresby Society, ix. 196-204).

Brown (William), Documents from the Record Office relating to Beverley (East Riding Antiq. Soc., v. 35-49).

Fowler (J. T.), Ballads in Ripon Minster Library (Yorkshire Arch, and Topo. Journal, xi. 200-1).

Old Yorkshire (two series) contains Biblio- graphical articles.

List of articles on Roman Remains in Yorkshire (Archseol. Review, ii. 330-42 ; iii. 71-2).

Folk-lore of Yorkshire : County Folk-lore, vol. ii. Folk-lore Society. (Bibliography, pp. xxiii-xxxix. )

Page (W. G. B.), Bibliography of Folk- speech of Yorkshire, in Nicholson (John), Folk-speech of Yorkshire, pp. 97-100.

Whitaker (W.), Bibliography of Yorkshire Geology, in Phillips (John) and Etheridge ( R. ), Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire, 1875.

Bibliography of East Yorkshire Geology for 1895 (Transactions of the Hull Geological Soc., vol. iii., 1895-6).

Bibliography of Geology and Physical Geography of West Yorkshire, in Davis (J. W.) and Lees (F. A.), Physical Geography and Botanical Topography of West York- shire, 1880.

Bibliography of the Geology of the West of Yorkshire, in Alarr (J. E.) and Tiddemann (R. H.), Geology (London, 1891).

Bibliography of Geology of Brough (E. Yorks), by Thomas Sheppard (vide Naturalist, No. 532, 1901, pp. 143-4).

Reid (Clement), Geology of Holderness : Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, 1885 (Bibliography, pp. 163-70).

Robinson (J. F.), Bibliography of the Flora of the East Riding (vide introduction).

Baker (J. G.), Flora of North Yorkshire (Bibliography, pp. 341-4).

See also F. A. Lees's Flora of Yorkshire (Trans, of Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Botanical Series, vol. ii.).

A list of books, &c., on the Birds of Y9rk- shire may be found in Miller Christy's Local Lists of British Birds (London, 1891), I p. 26-8.

A. L. HUMPHREYS.

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CHARLES DICKENS AND DISSENTERS (11 S. v. 461). Having read with interest what MR. JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS says concerning Dickens and his Nonconformist critics, I should like to quote the experience of my childhood.

My father, the late Rev. Samuel G. Green, D.D., was for many years the President of the Baptist Theological College at Rawdon, near Leeds, where he was closely united in work and friendship with repre- sentative Free Churchmen like the Rev. C. M. Birrell of Liverpool (father of the Right Hon. Augustine Birrell), the Rev. Dr. Alexander Maclaren of Manchester, the Rev. William Medley, and so forth. Among such men, the " fine flower " of Noncon- formity, I have every reason to believe that Dickens was generally honoured and beloved. The fact of his satirizing a certain mixture of unctuousness and ignorance which did exist in dark places here and there was really welcomed by them, and I have heard my father seriously assert that even the proceedings at the " Brick Lane Branch of the United Grand Junction Temperance Association" were not an outrageous carica- ture of things he had known ! The drawback attending all satire is that the public accepts as typical, what may have only a local and partial fidelity to truth.

I shall never forget what a treasure the stout brown original edition of ' David Copperfield ' was in my College home, nor what excitement was occasioned by the arrival of the second volume of ' Martin