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The book opens with the famous coat of arms : Bodley quartering Hone, his mother's family. When Bodley built the Library, James I. granted him an honourable personal augmentation of his paternal coat, viz., on a chief azure the three golden crowns of the University arms; and bestowed on him the motto " Quarta Perennis," the fourth everlasting, i.e., the eternal crown which rewards a good man's work. And upon the title- page are quoted two happy lines from Henry Vaughan ' On Sir Thomas Bodley's Library ' : Thou can 'st not die ! Here thou art more than

safe, Where every book is thy large epitaph.

Upper Norwood Aihenceum Record, 1912. (Pri- vately printed.)

READERS of ' N. & Q.' are familiar with the good work of the Norwood Ramblers, and we are glad to find from last year's ' Record ' that they are more flourishing than ever. The winter meetings included an address upon 'Timber Churches,' by Mr. Henry W. Burrows ; and under the leadership of Mr. Alfred Burch the Hall of the Ironmongers' Company and St. Michael's, Cornhill, were visited, while Mr. H. F. Murrell took the members to St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, and St. Mary Woolnoth.

The first summer excursion, conducted by Mr. T. Barnett, was to the Missendens, those quiet old villages at the foot of the Chiltern Hills. The Abbey stood just below the parish churchyard, on the site of the mansion and grounds still known as Mis- senden Abbey. While Henry Honor was Abbot (1462-1513) the Sloane Chartulary was compiled a curious book in which writs and leases were mixed up with scraps of general information. The con- tents comprise a Table of the Kings of England, the Way to find Easter, Lists of Christian Virtues, &c. Among the many rimed adages is this : When the hide aks, memento, And the lypp blaks, confessio, And the hert pants, contritio, And the wind wants, satisfacio, And the lemes unwilling lie, libera me domino, And the nose waxes cold, domine miserere, And the nyes hollows, then the deth follows, veni

ad judicium.

Another excursion was to Bookham, and Mr. T. C. Thatcher refers in his paper to the fact that there Fanny Burney considered her plans for 'Camilla.' Mr. W. H. Truslove chose Ewell, Cheam, and Nonsuch Palace for his ramble ; and Mr. Arthur J. Pitman conducted a ramble to Beaconsfield and Bulstrode. At the end of an avenue of limes at Bulstrode Park is a column upon which stands a solid leaden vase of heraldic design, bearing the words :

If by each rose we see

A thorn there grows, Strive that no thorn shall be

Without its rose.

Our readers may remember that at 10 S. iv. 127 a query was asked as to the author of these lines, but no answer was forthcoming.

Other excursions were to Risborough, conducted by Mr. Walter J. Burrows ; Ongar, by Mr. T. H. Alexander; Ightham, by Mr Hamilton E. H. Biden ; the monastic manor of Cobham, by Mr. Thomas G. Larkin ; and Kensington, by Mr. Frederick Higgs.

The 'Record' is full of beautiful illustrations. One of these depicts the Totem pole which Mr. Bertram H. Buxton obtained from the Haida Indian village of Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, and erected in his grounds, Fox Warren, Cobham. The embedded portion having decayed, the pole was re-erected on the estate of Mr. George Barnes, Foxholm, and it now stands on a concrete base, and is held by an iron framing. It is 41 ft. high.

We are glad to see in the ' Record ' the familiar initials W. F. H. (Harradence), to whom Mr. Theo- philus Pitt, the careful editor, tenders his thanks.

The Imprint for April 17th is, as usual, an excellent specimen of printing. Its contents in- clude an illustrated article on the woodcut portraits of Jan Lievens and Dirk de Bray, by Arthur M. Hind ; notes on some wood engravings of Lucien Pissarro, by J. B. Manson ; and on wood engravings of Noel Ro'oke, by H. G. Webb.

Among the introductory notes we find reference made to a recent paragraph in The Pall Mall Gazette stating that " An edition of Plato, published in Paris in the year 1520, and containing the earliest known illustration of a printing press, has been presented to the Guildhall Library." The Imprint says :

" As a matter of fact, an illustration of a printing press appears in a book printed by Jodocus Badius Ascensius, of Lyons, in 1507. Later, the same printer issued a second and larger cut of the same

subject The illustration we refer to was the

device adopted by the Ascensian Press as a printer's mark, and appears on the title pages of their

books We have not had an opportunity of

verifying the date of the Ascensian device ; but have had to rely on a second-hand reference, though an excellent one. While verifying our impression that the statement in The Pall Mall Gazette was an error, we came across the woodcut by Lucas Cranach of a printing press, which formed part of a border of a title page. It is dated Wittenberg 1520, and so coincides in age with that of the Guildhall Plato.

" In a catalogue of an exhibition of rare books,

Erints, &c., relating to printing and printers, issued y the Typographic Library and Museum, Jersey City, New York [New Jersey ?], there is mentioned in a note, with reference to the Ascensian picture of a printing press, that ' Only one earlier picture of a printing office is known, that printed in a book entitled "The Dance of Death/ printed in 1499.' This 'Dance of Death' is probably that published at Lyons, but must not be confused with the wood- cuts commonly ascribed to Holbein. These were of later date, and do not contain the printer."

\Vi: learn that an Historical Medical Museum, organized by Mr. Henry S. Wellcome, will be opened in London towards the end of June. It will include a collection of the original apparatus used by Galvani in making his first experiments in galvanism in the eighteenth century ; a collection of Grseco-Roman votive offerings, of special anato- mical and pathological interest, in silver, bronze, marble, ana terra-cotta, together with a number of similar objects used for the same purpose in medi- seval and modern times ; early medical medals and coins from the Grseco-Roman period ; ancient manu- scripts, and early printed medical books ; an exten- sive collection of amulets and charms connected