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year. Miller takes an honourable place among literary booksellers. He was a man of wide reading, and the record of his life shows his perse- verance and his deep religious feeling.

The name of Miller continued to be represented in the book trade of Dunbar for a little longer by his son William, but he had none of his father s push and initiative. He died in 1838, and his business was taken over by James Downie, whose descendants still carry it on at the same shop.

James, George Miller's eldest son, was a bit of a scribbler. From his earliest youth he stored his mind with local traditions and family history, but Mr. Couper says of him : " His range was limited. He had little or no lyrical gift, and what excellence he possessed lay in his powers of narrative and description." In 1830 he wrote a history of Dun- bar, an octavo of 300 pages. He passed through great vicissitudes, and died in the Edinburgh House of Refuge, 21 May, 1805.

Mr. Couper also gives particulars of the Millers of Dunfermline, and closes his volume with the ' Bibliography of the Miller Press ' which appeared in our pages on 3 and 17 July, and 6 November, 1909. There are portraits of the Millers, and the other illustrations include their shop and dwelling at Dunbar, also at Haddington and Dunfermline, and the cover of The Cheap Magazine. The binding of the book, with ita white bucxkram back and blue sides, takes one to the period when the history commences, while the quality of the paper and print tells us that Mr. Unwin intends the book to outlive many of those now in the British Museum.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. APRIL.

MR BERTRAM DOBELL'S Shakespearian Cata- logue (No. 229) numbers some 850 items. Among the Collected Editions we noticed a copy of the second impression of the 1632 Polio, bound by Pratt, the last leaf in facsimile, offered for 551., and a copy of the Fourth Folio, 1685, offered for SQL The best item in the list of separately printed plays is a copy of the ' Macbeth,' printed in 1674, " as it is now acted at the Duke's Thea- tre," 6/. 6s. ; and there is a copy of the seventh volume of Rowe's ' Shakespeare ' (' Venus and Adonis,' &c.), which costs 51. 5s. Mr. Dobell has collections of Ireland forgeries, and of concord- ances and books of quotations, and gives a long and interesting list of General Shakespeariana, in which we noticed, priced at II. 12s., the First Series of ' N. & Q.' (1849-55). There are also nearly complete sets of the New (Ql. 10s.) and of the Old (6Z. 6s.) Shakespeare Society, and some thirty -five items relating to the Bacon-Shake- ispeare controversy

WILLIAM GEORGE'S SONS have sent us from Bristol their Catalogue of Books relating to Africa. One of the best things they have is Alvarez's account of Prester John and Abyssinia, translated into German and printed at " Eiszleben," 1566, 31. 3s. Another good item connected with Abyssinia is the collection of original drawings and photo- graphs made during the expedition in 1868 by Lieut.-Col. Baigree, 51. 10s. A set Nos. 1 to 118 (with three missing) of The Independent, Freetown, Sierra Leone, from July, 1873, to May, 1878, should contain some curious matters ; it is .offered for SI. 3s. Birch's ' Views on the .Nile,'

from Cairo to the Second Cataract, with thirty plates in double tints, drawn on stone by George Moore from sketches by Owen Jones and Goury, which was published in 1843 at 4Z 4s., may be Imd for 21s. Among modern works we noticed a copy of Wingate's ' Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan,' 1891, SI. 3s.

MESSRS. CHARLES HIGHAM & SON'S Catalogue 529 describes well over a thousand works of theological or philosophical interest, many of them well worth having, and well within most people's reach. At the end is a small number of specially good modern books offered at a low rate, from which we may mention the Chiswick Press Blakes, ' Jerusalem,' 1904, 3s., and ' Milton,' 1907, 3s., and White and Monteiro's sketch of the Sibyls and the Sibylline oracles, ' As David and the Sibyls Say,' 1905, 2s. For 11. Is. is offered the photograph facsimile, issued in 1871, of the Black-Letter Prayer Book of 1636, with the MS. notes and alterations from which the copy attached to the Act of Uniformity was written. Nine volumes folio of the ' Opera Omnia ' of Calvin, in their original boards, clean and un- trimmed, " Amstelodami," 1667-71, cost 4Z. 10s. We also noticed a copy, bearing General Forlong's signature, and some notes in his hand, of the Abb6 Dubois's ' Description of the Character, Manners, and Customs of the People of India,' &c., Madras, 1862, II. ; some odd numbers (of which the first is No. 1 and the last No. 11,) of the publi- cations of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1885-94, containing Naville's ' Pithom,' ' Goshen,' and ' Bubastis,' and Petrie's ' Tanis ' and ' Naukratis, 31. 5s. ; and Dr. Heinrich Miiller's ' Der Geist- lichen Erquick-Stunden,' a quaint and interesting collection of hymns, with their tunes, Niirnberg, 1691, 21. 2s.

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MR. CECIL CLARKE. For use of "pogrom" see 10 S. v. 149, 197.

MR. WILLIAM PEARCE. Correspondents at 8 S. v. 154 and 215 state that " Copenhagen," Welling- ton's charger, was stuffed, and, after being kept for a time in the Tower of London, was removed to the museum of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley'