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a misplaced embellishment or turn. A neighbour remarked on it to Dickens, who replied. " That 's quite in accordance with rule. When things are at the worst they always take a turn."

There is a capital Index of the songs and music mentioned in Dickeris's writings.

THE increasing interest taken in Baxter prints has induced Mr. C. T. Courtney Lewis to start a Tear-Book that shall give collectors and others general information about Baxter prints and the prices realized for them, and he suggests that the volume " may be treated as a kind of annexe to his larger work ' Picture Printer of the Nine teenth Century.' " The sale of the Baxter prints on publication was very large. Of ' The Holy Family,' by Raphael, 400,000 copies were sold ; of ' Jenny Lind ' and * Jetty Treffy,' 300,000 ; and of Baxter's album illustrations, upwards of 100,000,000! In 1012 a dome-shape copy of 4 The Coronation ' fetched at Messrs. Glendining's SQL 7s. QcL ; and ' The Launch of the Trafalgar ' realized at Messrs. Puttick & Simpson's 4S/. 6s.

The book contains a complete catalogue of Baxter prints, which number 377, and prices as at this date. The illustrations include the Houses of Parliament, the Grand Entrance of the Great Exhibition, 1851, and the Royal Exchange. Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston & Co. are the publishers.

The Cornhill 'Magazine for April is a good number. Three sketches commemorate worthily the heroes of the Scott Antarctic Expedition : Sir Clements Markham writing that of Scott himself, Dr. Shipley contributing the singularly attractive portrait of Wilson, and Major MacMunn relating an episode in the Boer War illustrating the gallantry and resourcefulness of Gates. * Some Humours in a Colonial Bishop's Life,' by the Bishop of North Queensland, is a pleasant, unaffected, and thoroughly human piece of writing. ' How Cowper got his Pension,' by Mr. H. Rowlands 8. Coldicott, gives us, from an unpublished MS. of Hayley's, the interesting details of Hayley's efforts for the -obtaining of financial help for Cowper efforts which set him in a more favourable light than perhaps anything previously recorded of him. Mr. Dewar's paper on 'The Arab' has the pleasing quality which belongs to first-hand observation, even if this does not go very deep ; and some- thing of the same praise is due to Sir Hamilton Freer-Smith's 'Recollections of Japan, 1863-1864.' We confess that we found Jock, the 'Child of 'To-day,' whom Mr. Newton Adams portrays for -us, somewhat less unusual than we expected. Prof. Bryan's thoroughgoing discussion of ' The Income and Prospects of the Mathematical Specialist' deserves careful attention ; it opens up the old difficult problem of the right relation towards the rest of society of the few, but so necessary, torch-bearers of pure science. The short story ' God in the Foothills, by Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, is better than most ; and Mr. W. C. Green's survey of the output and use of books during the last fifty years or so, if it tells nothing that is new, confirms and illustrates instructively the views of most middle- aged readers. Correspondents of 'N. & Q.' will turn with some uncommon interest to the last pages of the number, in which we are glad not merely to observe how clearly and effectively our esteemed contributor Col. Prideaux disposes once for all of the inaccurate statements concerning his

reception of the body of Livingstone, and his treat- ment of Livingstone's men at Zanzibar, which have somehow found their way into print, but also to be made more fully acquainted with the details of one of those unobtrusive acts of justice and public spirit which too often remain unknown, yet un- doubtedly go to form the very marrow of national service.

NORFOLK ADDRESS TO GENERAL MONCK, 1660.

THE Norwich Public Library Committee informs us that it has arranged for the publication by sub- scription of an Address from the Gentry of Norfolk and Norwich to General Monck in 1660, which was purchased at the sale of the Townshend Heir- looms in 1911. All the material has been handed to the publishers, Messrs. Jarrold & Sons, of London Street, Norwich, and the work will be issued during the spring. It will contain fac- similes of the 800 signatures on the document, a portrait of General Morick, and at least five full- page portraits of celebrated persons who signed the document, together with an introduction by Mr. Hamon Le Strange, and Biographical Notes and Index by Mr. Walter Rye. The Address was signed by nearly every one of importance in Nor- folk, and thus the manuscript is of value both to students of English history and to those who have a special interest in Norfolk. Application may be made to Messrs. Jarrold & Sons for prospectus and further particulars.

INDICATION OF HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST

BY THE L.C.C.

WE hear from the London County Council that on the 14th inst. a bronze tablet was affixed to No. 93, Cheyne Walk, S.W., to commemorate the birth there in 1810 of Mrs. Gaskell.

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MR. C. T. BAKER writes that if MR. JOHN LANE will communicate with him at Mapperley Rise, Sherwood, Nottingham, he will be happy to Furnish information concerning the Rev. H. De Foe Baker (see ante, p. 228).

" MUNTINGS." J. T. F. kindly writes to inform us that the word printed " m[o]un tings" (ante, p. 202, col. 2, under "Lot 82") is "muntin" or ' -ing," a mullion. See ' N.E. D.'

ELMIRA, N.Y. Forwarded to MR. JONES.

CORRIGENDUM. On p. 231, col. 2, 1. 12, for 'vol. T"read "vol. 1."