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depopulation, and the deep sea of financial bank ruptcy and abandonment of his ancestral country -side."

The history of the Manor of Ottery St. Mary and its dependent Manor of Cadhay, which " faithfully reflects all these changes," is traced (as well as that of the town and the church one of the most interesting in the West of England) from an early period. Much interesting and minute local and personal detail is given, and the results of the general survey of country life at various points are brought to bear upon the particular instances afforded in the district.

The Manor Book, which is transcribed in Part II., covers the period from about the begin- ning of the reign of Charles II. down to about 1740. Some entries from the later books of the Manor are also given, relative chiefly to the local courts. The great amount of valuable genea- logical data which finds place, especially in Part II., makes one regret, if for no other reason, that the volume lacks an index. A list of books is supplied which may be useful to those who seek for further light " on the manner in which, before the era of centralization and bureaucratic govern- ment had set in, men of the old communal order wrestled with the new social problems of their day."

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. APRIL.

MESSRS. BOWES & BOWES of Cambridge de- scribe in their Catalogue No. 382 a good collection of books, which includes many items from the library of the late Prof. Skeat, and also a number of his works. They have two good black-letter Chaucers one the edition printed by Bonham, which Prof. Skeat was inclined to assign to 1550, bound in morocco, 121. 12s. ; the other, the 1561 edition printed by " Jhon Kyngston for John Wight, dwellyng in Poules Churchyarde," 10Z. 10s. They have also a copy, offered for 51. 5s., of the facsimile reproduction of the former brought out, with an introduction by Skeat, in 1905. Other interesting books are a black-letter Erasmus's ' Paraphrase upon the newe testamente,' in two volumes, 1548 and, 1552, 31. 13s. 6d', the Kelm- scott ' Caxton's Golden Legend,' as published, 1892, 11. 10s. ; eight volumes of Old English dramatists, of which each copy has MS. notes by the late Prof. Dowden, 1857-65, 31. 3s. ; the first series of the Palaeographical Society's facsimiles of MSS. and Inscriptions, 1873-83, 10Z. 10s. ; and France,' translated from the Italian (by Cotterell .and Aylesbury), in which are some autograph
 * a copy of Davila's ' Historic of the Civill Warres of
 * notes of Dryden's, 51. 5s.

MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS sends us his Catalogue No. 336, in which we have noted many more good things than we can possibly mention here. He has a copy, for which he asks 140Z., of Lord Kings- borough's ' Antiquities of Mexico,' nine volumes, which contain more than 1,000 coloured plates, illustrating by facsimiles from paintings in the great European museums the architecture, art, and religion of Mexico. There are a copy of Blake's designs for Hayley's ' Ballads ' (1802), 181. ; a " Post est " Horace, engraved, it will be remembered, throughout by J. Pine, 1733-7, 28Z. ; a first edition of Dr. Johnson's ' Prince of Abis- ' Liber Legis Salicse ' 15Z. Other items worth
 * sinia,' 1759, 9Z. ; and a MS. on vellum, Ssec. xv.,

mentioning are three books on birds among them f U ??n ,?' S ' Bird8 o^ 6 3 "' 375*: ; a collection

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of 090 drawings of buildings and views in Wilt- shire, done by John Buckler for Sir Richard Colt Hoare 1808-10, 400Z. ; Mary Stuart's ?opy of Beza s Confessione della Fede Christiana,' bear- ing on each side of the cover " Maria R. Scotoru" m gold letters a book probably given by the Queen to Sir James Melville, for it bears his name on the title, 80Z. ; and a copy of John Nichols's

Leicestershire, containing the rare part of the Guthlaxeon Hundred, most of the copies of which were burnt, 1795-1815, 150Z.

MESSRS. MAGGS'S Catalogue No. 323 describes nearly 400 engraved portraits and decorative engravings of the English and French Schools The portraits belong principally to the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and include, to mention one or two of the most interesting, J R Smith's ' Lady Elizabeth Compton,' a brilliant impression in second state (1780, 115Z. 10s.) ; Bartolozzi s Miss Farren,' a fine proof imDression (1792, 421.) ; Strange's Henrietta Mari and her Children, proof impression before anv letfpr^ (1784, 22Z. 10s.); Clint's 'Sir Samuel Hood ' lettered proof impression (1808, 72Z. 10s ) ' a proof impression in brown of P. W. Tomkins's stipple engraving after Downman's ' Mrs. Sid- dons (c. 1790, 42Z.) ; and a colour print of Jones's stipple engraving from Sir Joshua Reynolds's portrait of the children of the third Duke of Marl- borough (1790, 92Z. 10s.). Among the decorative engravings of the English School we noticed Bartolozzi s pair of engravings after Coypel, Zephire and Flore ' and ' Vertumnus and Po- mone,' printed in colours (1776, 100 guineas) another pair, stipple engravings by T. Gaugain', after Hamilton, also printed in colours, entitled 'Summer ' and ' Winter ' (c. 1790, 36Z.) ; and an etched letter proof of a charming engraving bv and after James Ward, called 'The Rocking

H, rfe( T H 7 ^ 3 ' 80L) ' The ^ench engravings include Edelmck's line engraving of Hellart's portrait of the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. (c. 1700, 21Z.) ; a pair ;of aquatints, Les Halles ' (Paris) and * L/Eau ' (Paris), bv Opitz (c. 1813, 37Z. 10*. the pair) ; and interesting examples of the work of Fragonard, Mallet, Nan- teuil, Nattier, St. Aubin, and many others. [Notices of other Catalogues held over.]

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MR. W. B. GERISH. The origin of " touching wood was discussed at 10 S. vi. 130, 174, 230. CORRIGENDUM. P. 231, col. 1, 1. 12 from foot, for QuariniV read Guarini's.