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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. v. JO-E 29, 1912.

In ' Personalia Academica,' though some of the pieces are a little banal thus William of Wyke- ham and C'onington are simply taken from the 4 D.N.B.' most are such as combine together successfully to make a sufficiently pleasant sequence. Walton's description of Bishop Sander- son ; Hearne's account of Dean Aldrich ; Ran- dolph of Corpus as seen in a paragraph of R. L. Edgeworth's ; ' A Walk with Mark Pattison ' ; and the two extracts from ' Recollections of II. J. S. Smith ' may be mentioned as specially good. ' Colleges : Life and Customs ' and ' Oxoniana ' present more fully than any other sections the general character of the whole book in epitome, with their bits from curious old .accounts of Oxford, their occasional reproaches, their biographical details. A good deal of space is given to Carlyle on Johnson. There are several extracts which seem to us hardly worth including here

The book winds up appropriately enough with the Bidding Prayer, whose fine cadences will recall many a voice, and many repetitions of one well-beloved scene. To the present writer the memory of St. Mary's on a Sunday morning in term-time has in it always in the foreground of the picture, tilted upward a little and listening in- tently, the white head of " Lewis Carroll." Why has he no place in this anthology ? Could ' Alice in Wonderland ' have been born anywhere but in Oxford ? And if one had to distil out the very essence of the humours of this volume, what else would one get ?

Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. Edited by W. Bruce Bannerman. March. (Mitchell, Hughes & Clarke.)

THE contents include the arms of Armytage and Wentworth, with an illustration and pedigree. There is an unpublished letter of the Earl of Richmond, 1485. Among other pedigrees are those of John Kynaston and the Dingwalls of Brucklay. The Dingwalls were a clan in Ross-shire which was dispersed after some sanguinary conflicts with the Mac- kenzies and the murder of their chief. Some settled in Aberdeenshire, some in Fife. Modern times, modern manners. The Dingwalls now known to us are peaceable doctors and pastors. We have accounts of the Fordyces of Gask, the Lindsays of Cushnie, the Irvines of Brucklay, and the Herries of St. Julians, Kent. Charles Herries was a London merchant who in 1779, during the war with the American colonies and France, with the assistance of some friends, raised a regiment of London merchants called the Light Horse Volunteers of London and Westminster, which, after being disbanded in 1783 during better times, was reconstituted in 1794 for gentlemen in general, as well as for merchants. Herries, who is said to have been one of the best swordsmen and horsemen of his time, became its commanding officer, and gave to this regiment the care and time required by his own business in those anxious days. In consequence, he found himself in 1798 a ruined man. His regiment refused to accept his prof- fered resignation, and without consulting him purchased for him an annuity of 1,OOOZ. He died at Hastings, 3 April, 1819, and the regiment .gave him a military funeral in Westminster Abbey, and placed his bust by Chantrey in the south aisle of the nave.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JUNE.

MR. GEORGE GREGORY of Bath, in his Cata- logue 215-216, offers 29 vols. of the Gazette Rationale, on le Moniteur Universal, 1789-1802, for 30Z. An ' Introduction Historique ' gives " un' abrege des anciens etats-generaux des assemblies des Notables, et des principaux eVenements qui ont amene la Revolution." Sets of this periodical are scarce ; the one in question bears the ex- libris of Lord Auckland. Another interesting set, of which the price is 501. , is the 'Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette,' in 13 vols., 1822-8, having 152 coloured stipple and copper-plates by S. Alken, J. R. and R. Cruikshank, and Land- seer, as well as a great number of small woodcuts. An amusing illustration occurs in vol. xii. : the ' Charvolant or Patent Kite-Carriage,' an object which, as the article describing it remarks, has " no parallel." Kip's ' Views in England and Scotland"- " Nouveau Theatre de la Grande

Bretagne ," a Londres, chez David Morlier,

Libraire, 1715-17, a good copy of a rare work, is also priced at 501. A complete ' D.N.B.,' best edition up to 1904, 68 vols. in all, is to be had for 24Z. ; and ' Constable's English Landscape Scenery,' a set of 22 mezzotint engravings from Constable by David Lucas, for 201. We noticed also a first edition of Turner's ' A Booke of the Natures and Properties | as well of the bathes in England as of other bathes in Germanye and Italye | very necessarye for all sycke persones that cannot be healed without the helpe of Natural bathes,' imprinted at Collin by Arnold Birckman, 1568, 11. Is. ; Speed's ' Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine,' London, 1676, Ql. ; 'The Life of Admiral Lord Nelson, K.B., from his Lordship's Manuscripts,' by the Rev. James Stanie Clarke, and John McArthur, 4 vols., W. ; and a Gpwer's ' Confessio Amantis,' the third edition, printed by Berthelet in 1553, 111.

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Lucis. "The naming ramparts of the world" is a translation of "flammantia mcenia mundi" (Lucretius, ' De Rerum Natura,' i. 73).

Hie ET UBIQUE writes to point out that the word " Jester " in line 6 of the verses quoted under 4 William Tell,' ante, p. 469, should be Gesler.