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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vi. NOV. 9, 1912.

THE November Burlington Magazine is one of the best of recent numbers, the matters dealt with being unusually fascinating and the handling of them adequate. It starts out with M. Jose Pijoan's learned study of the Iberian sculptures, abundantly illustrated, its interest centring in the ' Lady of Elche,' a reconstruction of which forms the frontispiece of the number. To the wonderful head, with its haunting face, has been supplied the form of the best-preserved female statue of the Cerro de los Santos, with at least the result predicted by M. Pijoan that the head is proved not to lose its charm by being shown as part of a complete statue. Mary Phillips Perry gives us the first instalment of a discussion of the Psychostasis in Christian art, pleasantly written and full, and well illustrated. M. A. J. Wauters begins an account of Roger van der Weyden, concerning himself here chiefly with the attribu- tion to him of the altarpiece of Pope Martin V., which he believes to have been originally brought to the Vatican as a present from the city of Louvain on the occasion of the embassy to the Pope for the founding of Louvain University. M. Claude Anet continues, giving, as before, an abundance of illustrations, his valuable notes on the exhibition of Persian miniatures at Paris ; and M. Raphael Petrucci contributes a most interesting article on Corean pottery.

MB. F. VINE RAINSFORD, of 66, Oseney Crescent, N.W., is about to publish privately, by subscription, under the title of ' Rainsfordiana,' a history of the Rainsford family, composed from material which he has collected in the course of fifty-two years. The family shows a descent of sixteen generations, and has branches in the Colonies and America ; and the book contains lengthy extracts from the Public Records and Heralds' Visitations, as well as from family letters.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. NOVEMBER.

WE have space to mention only a few of the sets of periodical publications which Messrs. E. George & Sons offer for sale in their list No. 51. They have The Athenceum from 1831 to 1910, 132 vols. in cloth, 40Z. ; Notes and Queries from its beginning to 1900, 105 vols., including First, Second, and Fourth General Indexes, in cloth, 2QL ; the publications of the Psychical Research Society, viz., the Proceedings, vols. i. to xxi. (1882-1908), and the Journal, vols. i. to xiii. (1884-1908), with a combined General Index, 151. ; Archceologia, from its beginning in 1770 to 1901, with General Index to vols. i. to 1., 251. ; The Asiatic Quarterly Review, 1886 to 1910, 50 vols., at prices ranging from 211. to 291. accord- ing to binding ; The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1880 to 1905, 25 vols., three sets, of which the cheapest, unbound, is 1QI. ; and The Gentleman's Magazine, from its beginning in 1731 to the finish of the Original Series in May, 1868, with the General Indexes. 228 vols., in two sets, of which the dearer, bound in half calf or half morocco, is 48Z.

MESSRS. MAGGS'S Catalogue No. 296 gives a list of their Presentation Copies and First Edi- tions, and contains several items of more than usual interest. Thus they offer for 175Z. a com- plete MS. in Meredith's own handwriting of

' Jump to Glory Jane,' running to 16 pages, with the words " From George Meredith, Box Hill, Dorking," written at the top of p. 1. For the ' Riddle for Men ' in a MS. which differs somewhat from the poem as published 251. is asked. Of the Scott items the most important is a complete set of first editions, including Joseph Strutt's unfinished ' Queenhoo Hall,' which Scott completed, 1814-32, 851. Two of the Shelley first editions may be mentioned an ' Alastor,' 1816, 571. 10s., and a ' St. Irvyne, or the Rosicrucian Romance,' 1811, 521. 10s. There are some fourteen first editions of different works of Matthew Arnold among them two copies of ' Empedocles on Etna,' 1852, both 51. 15s. ; and a copy of the ' Strayed Reveller,' 1849, for which the same price is asked. In the Browning items Mrs. Browning is perhaps better represented than her husband, there being offered here the first editions, both rare, of the ' Essay on Mind ' (1826), 12Z. 12s., and of ' The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point,' which was privately issued for " the use of a few Friends of Freedom " in 1849, 101. 10s. A set of first editions of ' Bells and Pomegranates ' (part v., as always in the original cloth, being the second edition) is offered for 14Z. 14s., and is the most interesting of the works of Robert Browning in this catalogue ; though two volumes of ' Letters to Various Correspond- ents,' privately printed on vellum and bound by Ramage an issue of which only 5 copies or so were done should be worth having : 1895, 81. 8s. Among Dickensiana is a portrait of Dickens by Frith, executed about the same time as that now at South Kensington, that is in 1859. It had been kept by Frith as a memorial of his friend. It represents Dickens seated at his desk, but turned with his face to the spectator. The price asked is 2101. The little volume of sonnets called ' Brother and Sister,' which George Eliot printed for private circulation in 1869 (11. 10s.) ; a score of books from the Kelmscott Press, of which the best are perhaps ' The Earthly Paradise' (151. 15s.), Caxton's ' Order of Chivalry ' (printed on vellum, 22Z. 10s. ), and ' The Tale of King Florus and the Fair Jehane ' (printed on vellum, 151. 15s.) ; a first edition of ' Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb,' in the original boards and uncut, 1798, 371. 10s.; and " An Acte concernyng pullyng downe and avoydynge of Fyssh garthes piles, stakes heckes, and other ingins sette in the* Ryver and Water of Ouse and Humbre," bound with other Acts, itself black letter, imprinted at London by Thomas Berthelet c. 1540 (22Z. 10s.), may be mentioned as examples among many others of the good things to be found in this collection.

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H. B. W. (" The hand that rocks the cradle "). See 9 S. ii. 358, 458 ; 10 S. iv. 447 ; v. 273, 357 ; 11 S. i. 360. The author would appear to have been William Ross Wallace, an American, though some doubt has been thrown upon this.

R. A. H. U Forwarded.

CORRIGENDUM. P. 351, col. 1, 1. 24, for "CoL." read " MR."