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 240 NOTES AND QUERIES. • [n s. VIL MAR. 22,1913. When it was produced by Handel at Dublin. It is sad to rend that Arne deserted his wife. There is some curious correspondence between Arne anr Oarrick, and much that is interesting about 4 Rule, Britannia.' MR. ELLIOT STOCK sends us the volume of The Antiquary for last year. The fact that this volume is the forty-eighth speaks well for its popularity. Th« varied contents include many original articles, such as ' The Charter of Oxhey, by B. T. Andrews ; ' Border Pele Towers,' by J. P. Gurwen; ' Orkney and Shetland Two Hundred Years Ago,' by W. PorUyce Clark; Prideaux ; ' The " Honeysuckle " Ornament," by •C. Garlick ; ' Anna Maria von Schuurman,' by J. F. Schcltema ; :md ' Scotter and Scotton,' by T. B. P. Kminson. There are, as usual, many excellent illustrations. The Imprint for February 17th is, like the first number, an excellent specimen of what printing should be. Among coloured illustrations are beautiful reproductions of two pictures drawn by Birket Foster for his children's scrap-book. for passengers on the top, without any protecting rail in front, also the difficult climb to it by small steps at the back. In the other, ' The Bear Pit at the Zoo." we have ladies flounced and crinolined, little girls in pork-pie hats, and boys in the belted tunics and white duck trousers of the sixties. There is a delightful little poem—a child's address ' To a Star '—by John Banister Tabb. WE have received from Messrs. Mitchell their Newspaper Prexs Directory for 1913. It is too well known to need any extended notice. It shows, as it has done for more than sixty years, the continued progress of the Press both in Great Britain and its Colonies. The most notable events of the past year have been the amalgamation of The Daily New» and Morning Leader and the starting of two new daily papers in the interests of Labour—The Daily Herald and The Daily Citizen. The map of Great Britain, by an ingenious plan, indicates whether one paper, weekly or daily, or whether more than one, are published in the various towns. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.—MARCH. MR. P. M, BARNARD of Tunbridge Wells, in his Catalogue No. 66, has brought together a good collection of Tracts and Broadsides, for the most part from the seventeenth century. All the entries furnish more or less interesting reading. We may mention the following as instances of what is to be found in them. There are several of the works of Sir Roger L'Estrange, to which a recent scholarly work has anew drawn attention: ' The Rclaps'd Apostate,' for example, " Wherein The Faction and Design are laid as open as Heart can wish " (1641, :!.*. 6d.); ' No Blind e Guides, in Answer to a seditious Pamphlet of J. Milton's ' —a first edition (1660, II. 5«.); and 'A Whipp, a Whipp ' (1062, 4». 6d.). Readers of Mr. J. B. Vilh ims's contributions to our columns may lii,.- to know that they can here have for 10«. Hugh Peters's ' Severall Propositions to the Members of the Honourable House of Commons ....' (1646). We noticed also by Addison, " To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, with the Tragedypf Cato, Nov., 1714. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his picture of the King," folio, London. 1716, first edition (21. 2s.); ' A Proposal for the Advancement of Trade upon such Principles as must Necessarily Enforce it,' folio, 1676, the first publication of Robert Murray (H. 10«.); and The Last Advice of William Lavd, late Arch- Bishop, to his Episcopal! Brethren ' having a curious portrait of Laud standing on his shroud, 1045 (H. 5*.). MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS, in his Catalogue 318, sets before us 1,250 works on India. They include a number of useful books on all aspects of India at moderate prices, and also some important items of more curious or unique interest. There is a set of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, from the beginning in 1832 to 1880, with Gleanings in Science added, 401.—perhaps the most important of the sets of periodicals. Among books on the antiquities of India there are four of the works of Thomas and William Daniell, and also Fergusson's ' Tree and Serpent Worship * (a copy of the original edition to be had for 71., and one of the second edition for 101.) ; Major E. Moor's ' The Hindu Pantheon,' the original edition, 1810, 91. ; and Solvyn's ' Costume of Hmdostan,' the original edition of 250 coloured etchings and folding views of Calcutta, 1799, 14/. A copy of Gould's ' Birds of Ajia,' in 7 ols., folio, 1850-83, costs 64f. ; and another good scientific
 * Evelyn's Design for a Library,' by W. It. B.
 * The Atlas Omnibus ' shows the precarious perch
 * tem is Allan Hume's ' Game Birds of India,

Burmah, and Ceylon,' 1879-81, Ul. We may also mention Williamson's ' Oriental Field Sports : Description of the Wild Sports of the East/1807, 19J. j and Tod's ' Travels in Western India, embracing a Visit to the Sacred Mountains of the Jains and the Most Celebrated Shrines of the Hindu Faith between Rajpootana and the Indus,' L839, Tl. 100. [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] Jlotias to Comspon&ents. ON all communications must be written the name ind address of the sender, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to "The Editor of ' Notes and Queries'"—Adver- tisements and Business Letters to "The Pub- lishers "—at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C. WE cannot andertake to answer queries privately, nor can we advise correspondents aa to the value of old books and other objects or as to the means of disposing of them. To secure insertion of communications oorre- Kjndoute must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate slip of paper, with the signature of the writer and such address as lie wishes to appear. When answer- ng queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to >ut in parentheses, immediately after the exact leading, the series, volume, and page or pages to which they refer. Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second com- munication " Duplicate."