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numerous congratulations upon the successful completion of the Second Supplement of this wonderful Dictionary, but we can assure him that there are none more hearty than ours, and we include in our gratitude the successors of Gem*ge Smith, the patriotic originator of this truly national monument.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. DECEMBER.

MESSRS. BOWES & BOWES of Cambridge, in their Catalogue 362, offer nearly 1,800 works on Mathematics, of which we may mention the following as likely to be of interest to the general reader : J. E. Montucla's ' Histoire des Mathe- matiques depuis leur origine jusqu'4 nos jours,' last edition, augmented and completed after the death of the author, 1799-1802, 51. 15s. 6d. ; Archimedes ' Opera,' Basilea?, J. Hervagius, 1544, 21. 2s. ; Jacob Koebel, ' Eynn Newe geordent Bechenbiichlein. . . .,' Oppenheim, 1514, 21. 10s. ; three copies of the third edition of Newton's ' Principia,' 1726, of which the best is a folio, in contemporary red morocco, one of 12 copies so printed and bound, 51. 15s. Qd., as well as a large number of other Newton items ; Simon Grynseus's folio edition of Ptolemy printed in 1538 and dedicated to Henry VIII., 21. 2s. ; Benjamin Franklin's ' Experiments and Obser- vations on Electricity,' 1751, II. 5s. ; De la Breve- tiere's ' La Decouverte des Longitudes,' c. 1760, %l. 2s. ; and a Latin ' Euclid,' folio, Venetiis, in eedibus Joannis Tacuini, 1517, II. 16s.

MESSRS. J. & J. LEIGHTON have sent us their Catalogue of MSS. In it 335 works are described, and 150 reproductions from these are given. This is a volume over which one might well spend many an hour of delight, and the treasures it contains are both so numerous and so rich in interest that it is difficult to make a selection from them. The great majority of MSS. are of Christian origin books of devotion or ecclesi- astical history ; but there are also many classical -examples, from among which we may mention .two of Virgil's ' JEneid,' both of the fifteenth

century, the one, costing 551., in italic letters, on 183 leaves of vellum, 7J in. by d| in., having

.a first page with painted and illuminated border and an illuminated initial to each book ; the other on 180 vellum leaves, 10J in. by 7 in., in roman letters by an Italian hand, with a fine border to the first page, 35Z. The most valuable .and interesting items are to be found in the list of the " Horse," and of these by far the most important is that " secundum Consuetudinem Ecclesise Sarisburiensis," written at the turn of the sixteenth century, according to tradition, for the prince who was later Henry VIII. Not

only does this contain 43 large miniatures and other rich decorative work in the way of borders and capitals, but there is at the end a figure, adorned with a nimbus, of Henry VI. and a hymn in his honour. Among the figures of saints immediately preceding this are included two or three which seldom appear in such MSS. ; and another interesting feature of the work is that portions of it are in English. The price of this MS. is 1,100Z. To the twelfth century belongs .a Greek MS. of the Gospel according to St. Matthew and St. John, 110?. ; and other examples of twelfth-century work are a St. Augustine, ' De

L'ivitate Dei,' 301.; a St. Chrysostom, ' Homiliae in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum,' 32/. ; a Geoffrey of Monmouth and William of Malmes- bury in one MS., 361. ; and a copy of St. Jerome's ' Tractatus super Mattluei Evangeliuin,' con- taining most interesting inscriptions, which seems the oldest MS. of this collection, having been written about the year 1100, SOL There are about a dozen Psalters, of which the richest is an Anglo-French work of the fifteenth century in gothic letter, with fine diptych miniatures and several features of unusual importance, 135Z. ; and there is a beautiful Italian ' Gradual,' also of the fifteenth century, 151. Nor must AVC omit to mention a MS. of St. Cyril's, ' Thesaurus ad- versus hereticos. . . .a Georgio Trapezuntio tra- ductus,' Italian writing in roman letters of the fifteenth century, for which 95Z. is asked.

MESSRS. MAGGS'S Catalogue 298 is as inter- esting as any to look through, and we single out the few items for which we can find space from a number which have virtually an equal claim to notice. They have a copy of Browne's ' Bri- tannia's Pastorals ' the two books in one volume, for which 1501. is the price asked, it having belonged to Milton, and containing some 160 notes in Milton's hand. The book, as may be imagined, has a considerable history. It was published in London 1613, 1616. There are four Diirer items, viz., the woodcuts to the Apocalypse, 1511, 68Z. ; those to the ' Life of the Virgin,' 1504-10, 151. ; the "Great" Passion, 1510-63, and the Passion of Jesus Christ, 1507-1H, 1351. Of the MSS. the most important is that of the five poems of Nizami, dated 1569 and 1570, with brilliant miniatures and other decorative work, for which 3501. is asked. The best Milton, of which the price is 2251., is a copy of the rare early issue of the first edition of ' Paradise Lost,' with date 1667 ; and there are three important Shakespeares a quarto ' Chronicle History of Henry the Fift,' 1608, 240Z. ; a Second Folio, 1632, 225Z. ; and a Fourth Folio, 1685, 1281. A copy, uncut, of the first edition of Shelley's ' Queen Mab ' is offered for 1601. It is a perfect example that is, it has the imprint at the end, " Printed by P. B. Shelley, No. 23, Chapel Street, Grosvenor Square, London," and also the title- page and the dedication " to Harriet," which Shelley tore away from most of the copies he sent out in order to avoid prosecution. A copy of Forster's ' Life of Dickens,' the three volumes extended to six by the insertion of portraits, views, and autograph letters, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, and having in the centre of the front inside cover of each volume a miniature of Dickens, is offered for 5251.

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