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would specially commend to our readers' notice Mr. Cuthbert Maughan's ' Lloyd's and Insurance ' ; it is full of curious matters, as well as of compre- hensive general information, brought well up to the present day, concerning the great institution it treats of. ' The Philosophy of Eucken,' two -views, by Mr. Bernard Bosanquet and by Prof. W. R. Boyce Gibson respectively, and a very interesting account of ' The English in Ireland ' toy Mr. Robert Dunlop, are two other papers that jmay be mentioned.

MOST of the May Nineteenth Century is devoted .give \is unpublished correspondence : that be- vtween Mrs. Wolfe and the War Office, set out by Mr. Beckles Willson, and letters written by Addison in Ireland, in an article of which we have here the first instalment by Dr. R. H. Murray. ' Old Lamps for New : Some Reflections on Recent Changes in Journalism,' will probably pull some people up short with the sense of how much things have changed since they were young. 'The " arrival " of the photograph" and the de- vthronement of the editor are, perhaps, the two most significant features of the change, so far as lit has yet gone ; but Mr. William Maxwell, the writer of the article, seems to expect more things yet, and, in particular, to look forward to the news of the day being disseminated gratuitously by advertising agencies. Mrs. W K. Clifford's ' A Woman Alone : a Modern Play,' is deftly and pleasantly done, though the dialogue has weak ^places, and the turn of affairs in it is very familiar.
 * fco current affairs. Of the remainder, two papers

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SYDNEY HERBERT.

AGAIN I keenly regret to report another gap 'in the ranks of contributors to ' N. & Q.' Mr. Herbert died suddenly on the 22nd ult. in a rtramcar, returning from Cleeve Hill to Chelten- ham after a day's sketching in the neighbourhood. Only four days before he wrote me a note describing his enjoyment of a long walk of twenty-three miles, and his delight in the lovely spring weather. At his age 87 I doubt the wisdom of such unusual exertion, and think probably it hastened his collapse. He said when finished, he would send me a copy of. His last letter to ' N. & Q.,' on * Heart-Burial,' appeared 21 March (ante, p. 234). I may recall here his able letter to The Athenaeum of 23 Oct., 1909, on the Jennens family, from which he was descended through his mother. jj
 * that he was just publishing a lithograph which,

For twenty-three years Mr. Herbert was the ,-art master of the Cheltenham Ladies' College under Miss Beale, but under a new regime he was displaced, and left wholly dependent on private ^tuition and the sale of his pictures. He was a member of the North British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a member of the Society of Biblical Archaeology. His paint- ings were full of poetic inspiration, though want- ing in qualities to make them vendible, and as a master he was most successful in instilling into ]his pupils a love of art. ^WILLIAM ^MERCER,

BOOKSELLLERS 5 CATALOGUES. MAY.

M. MARTINUS NIJHOFF of the HagueT(Cata- logue No. 396) has a curious old book of patterns printed " Bey B. Jobin, 1600 " (Strassburg), and proclaiming itself : " Allen Modelwiirckerin [sic], Niiderin [sic], vnnd solcher Modelarbeit geflis- senen Weibsbildern sehr dienstlich." It is to be had for 250fl. Montanus's work on America, the most notable of its kind published in Holland in the seventeenth century, printed at Amster- dam, J. Meurs, 1671, is here offered for 15011. We noticed also the Duke of Newcastle's ' General System of Horsemanship ' (1743, lOOfl.), and a copy of the ' Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ' of Ortelius (1574, 225fl.). This is to select a few only out of a good number of curious works, a great proportion of which, we observe, are not beyond the reach of the collector of moderate means.

MESSRS. HENRY SOTHERAN & Co. send us their Catalogue 745, containing descriptions of over 700 items. It begins with a set complete, but for three parts of The Philosophical Magazine from its beginning in 1798 to 1910. Such a set is exceed- ingly rare, and accordingly 225?. is the price fixed upon it. For 1851. is offered, what many people might think of yet greater interest, a complete set of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society from 1665 to 1910, having, however, the Abridgment to 1750. An original edition of the first treatise on electricity is offered for 20/. This was the work of one William Gilbert, physician to Elizabeth, and appeared in 1600 under the title ' Guilieluii Gilberti. . . . de Magnete, Magneti- cisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure.' Edmund Lodge's ' Portraits of Illustrious Person- ages of Great Britain ' (1821-34, 40Z.) ; a fourth edition (the best) of ' Purchas his Pilgrimage ' (1626, 70Z.); a complete set of Roscoe's "The Novelists' Library " (1831-3, 151. 15s.) ; and a set of the Waverley Novels, all save two volumes in the original editions (1814-32, 45J.), are among the most interesting books, or collections of books, to be noted. There is a good section of works relating to India.

[Notices of other Catalogues held over.]

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