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for something of one-sidedness. The opening paragraphs, on the error of taking Greek literature as if it were Greek life, contain wholesome warning. Mr. Walter de la Mare on * An Elizabethan Poet and Modern Poetry ' has, we regret to say, spoilt his handling of a very pretty subject by fulsome- ness. It is refreshing to turn from him to Dr. Shipley's masterly and enthralling ' Romance of the Sea Deeps,' a piece of strong, plain, scientific writing, sitting "knapp," as a German might say, to the subject-matter, and that subject-matter of the most curious. We should, however, like to ex- press a hope that that overworked word "romance " may soon be allowed to disappear from the titles of scientific papers. * Prehistoric Art,' by Mr. E. A. Parkyn, and ' Tendencies of Modern' Art,' by Mr. James Bone, appear appropriately side by side, and may well, by that juxtaposition, provoke (reflection. Both are good. Mr. E. N. Bennett writes vigorously, and with abundance of detail, on Worker" contributes a clearly written and in- spiriting account of Octavia Hill's ideas and methods with regard to the Housing Problem.
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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. APRIL.

MR. EDWARDS'S Catalogue 321 is made up of books on gardening and kindred subjects. 1401. is the price asked for The Botanical Magazine, or Flower Garden Displayed, a set from its beginning in 1787 to 1896, including the continuation by Jack- Boii and Hooker, and Hooker's 'Companion,' 125 vols. in 103. There are also two good sets of The Botanical Register^ 1815-47 : one offered for 45., the other, which is more elaborately bound, for J3M. A good item is Fuchsius's * De Historia Stir- pium Commentarii Insignes,' in the first edition, having the well-known portraits of the author .and the artist and engravers, "Basilese, in officina Isingriniana," 1542, 4$. : and good, too, is the copy of the best edition of Turner's * Herbal,' in black- letter, containing at the end the translation " out of the Alemaine Speeche " of "a most excellent and perfect Homish Apothecarye," made by Coverdale under the name of John Hollybush, 1568, 121. We may mention, besides, Redoute"'s ; Les Liliacees ' the copy bound by Wright for the fifth Duke of Marlborough, having De Candolle's text for vols. i. to iv., that of De la Roche for vols. v. to vii., and that of Raffeneau-Delile for vol. viii., 1802-16 140/., and Gould's ' Birds of Great Britain,' 601.

MESSRS. LOESCHER & Co. of Rome have sent us their Catalogue (88) of Incunabula, MSS., and Books printed before 1525. They have many tempting things to offer. The two MSS. which are perhaps the most interesting are a twelfth-century Psalter, written probably in Italy, haying glosses at the sides, and ornamented with initials in red and blue, 850fr. ; and a fifteenth-century manu- script on paper of Petrarch's ' Sonetti, Canzoni e Trionfi,' 350fr. The 'De Civitate Dei,' from the press of Vindelinus de Spira, 1470, the fourth book printed at Venice, is offered for 900f r. ; and 500fr. is the price of a very interesting xylographic print, belonging to the fifteenth or early sixteenth cen- tury, of a list of books, intended perhaps to be stuck on a door at a University. Sweynheym & Pannartz's 'St. Cyprian,' printed at Rome in 1471, a fine and complete copy, is offered for l,650fr.; and a good copy of their Quintilian, a work of the

previous year, for 2,250fr. We must not omit to mention, from the Planck press (Rome, 16 Aug., 1497), a fine Pontificalis Liber, on vellum, specially interesting because it is the first Pontifical in which the musical score is given.

MESSRS. MAGGS BROTHERS' Catalogue (305) of Books on Art and Allied Subjects presents, with its 1,450 items, a wide and pleasant range for curiosity. It includes fine specimens of Bindings, good Engravings, Coloured Plates and Drawings, examples of Typography, Woodcuts of high interest, and valuable Manuscripts, besides works which come under many other headings. Boydell's Collection of Proof Engravings of Portraits, mostly by Houbraken, with the corresponding ' Lives ' and ' Characters ' by Dr. Thomas Birch a series of 231 heads in two folio volumes is offered for 525Z. These comprise portraits of most Englishmen of note before the date of its formation, 1756, each one in two, sometimes in three states, while in two instances (Henry VIII. and Mary, Queen of Scots) the original drawing by Houbraken is also given. Of the MSS. the most interesting is an Anglo- French Psalter with commentary of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, having illuminated capitals, scroll ornaments, and animal grotesques, 120Z. There are several good Diirer items ; for example, the set of 36 wood engravings entitled 'Passio Christi 'impressions taken about 1600 from the original blocks at Venice 15Z. 15-s. 90 miniature original drawings by Stothard, designed as illustrations to Cowper's 'Task,' Hayley's 'Triumphs of Temper,' and ' Telemachus,' and executed for the Atlas Pocket Books (1796-1801), are offered for 75Z. We observed also a set of the best Library Editions of Dibdin's Bibliographical Works, 19 volumes in all, for 60Z. ; and, among the specimens of binding, Riviere's volume of Morris's 'Poems by the Way,' in the Kelmscott Press edition, bound in green morocco, with kingcups inlaid in yellow morocco, 1891, 45Z. Of eighteenth- century binding a fine example is the ' Office de la Semaine Sainte,' which belonged to Marie- Adelaide of France, for which 40Z. is asked. There are some half a score facsimiles of Blake's illustrations, of which we may mention William Muir's 'Milton,' 1886, 12/. 12s., and 'Songs of Innocence,' 1884-5, 12Z. 12s. ; while a copy of Young's 'Night Thoughts,' with the original illustrations by Blake, is to be had for 8Z. 10,v. The section of the catalogue headed Typography comprises many good things, among them an editio princeps of the Florentine Apollonius Rhodius, 1496, 18?. 18*., and Wynkyn de Worde's ' Cronycles,' 281.

[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]

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THE LIGHTNING'S VICTIM (ante, p. 265). MR. GERISII had already recorded this inscription at 11 S. iv. 147. JOHN T. PAGE.

F. C. GORE. The name Pimlico was exhaustively discussed at the following references : 10 S. x. 401, 457, 514 ; xi. 75, 133, 194, 310, 414.

H. O. "Before one could say Jack Robinson" was discussed at 10 S. xi. 109, 232, 317, 357.

M. L. R. BRESLAR ("Bulls" and "Bears"). Refer to N.E.D.'