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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. ix. JAN. iu, 1014.

Mr. Barnes Stevens has entitled his paper The Ravages of the Black Death in the Fourteenth Century,' which is rather lu.u* a non lucendo, for it deals almost entirely with later centuries an interesting piece of work. Mr. A. G. Bradley s 4 Captain John Smith' is one of the best things in the number. The other articles deal for the most part with burning questions in politics; though we must not leave unmentioned, as if included among them, Mr. Holford Knight's well-reasoned jplea for the creation of an English Bar Association.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JANUARY.

MR. P. M. BARNARD of Tunbridge Wells has just issued his Catalogue 81 Rare Tudor and Stuart Books (192 items) containing a number of scarce and interesting works. Among the more notable are the first edition of Arnold's 'Chronicle,' 1503, 181.; 'The first Examinacyon and the lattre Ex- aminacyon of Anne Askew,' Wesel, 1546-7, 8Z. 10&,; the second folio of Beaumont and Fletcher's tion of 25 unpublished original drawings by James Jefferys, to illustrate the 'Canterbury Tales,' 1781, 31. 10s.; ' The Countesse of Pembrokes Yuychurch,' by Abraham Fraunce, 1591, 45.; Gower's 'De Confessione Amantis,' 1532, 14/.; Hardyng's ' Chro- nicle,' 1543, 16?.; Hookes's ' Amanda,' 1653. 21. 15s.; Lok's 'Ecclesiastes,' 1597, with the 60 additional -sonnets at the end. known to exist in only three
 * Comedies and Tragedies,' 1679, 11. 10s.; a collec-

buted to Nash (? 1590), 121. 10*.; and Hart's ' Ortho- graphic,' 1569, the first edition of the earliest English treatise on orthography, 34. A special feature has been made in this catalogue of the notes appended to each item, which are full of interest for the bibliographical and literary student.

The second part includes charters or documents relating to Cheshire (dated 1574), Devon (1289, 1329), Dorset (1313, 1330), Essex (1348, 1389), Herts (1290, 1402), Jamaica (1660, 1832), Kent (1261, 1327), Norfolk (1426), Surrey (1446), and Yorkshire (1293).

MESSRS. ELLIS'S Catalogue No. 150 begins with a workmanlike and interesting account of the book- selling business founded at 29, New Bond Street by John Brindley in 1728, and carried on there ever -since. The 150 items which are next described compose one of the most interesting Catalogues which we have recently seen. There are many manuscript Horae and several Incunabula, and the excellent illustrations and careful letterpress may enable the reader, whose purse will not stretch to the dimensions necessary for acquisition, to form some definite idea of these treasures. That which, remarkable of the MSS., which, we admit, appealed 'to us much less than some of the humbler works, is the Missale Bononiense, made for the church of St. Petronius at Bologna at the end of the fifteenth century or beginning of the next. It contains forty miniatures, and magnificent borders, all in the Renaissance style and of exquisite execution, and it is to be had for 1,750Z. An interesting feature of this collection is the number of Sarum items in it. There are two fine 'Horaj ad usum Sarum,' the one offered at 180Z. a Gothic MS. of the
 * from the connoisseur's point of view, is the most

fifteenth century on vellum, finely illuminated with two miniatures; and the other, also of the fifteenth century, a small 8vo with nine miniatures, initials, and borders, 551. Two others are 'Hore Beatis- sime Virginis Marie ad yeru (legitimum) Sarisburi- ensis Ecclesie ritu,' printed in Gothic letter, the one in 1527 by Prevost, the other by Regnault, 1534, Both are illustrated with numerous woodcuts, and the latter has English verses in the Calendar. From this too, in accordance with Henry VIII. 's command, the names of the Popes and of St. Thomas of Canterbury have been erased. The prices are re- spectively 85/. and 65/. There are further a copy of the Sarum Manual printed at Antwerp in 1543, 65/.; a copy of Cousins Sarum Missal, 1519, 185J.; Merlin's Sarum Breviary, 1556, 90?.; and the Sarum Processional, printed in London, 1555, 35A

We have not space to do more than mention six or seven further items in the briefest way. We noticed a copy of the Oxford ' Exposicio ' of * St. Jerome' the first book printed at Oxford it' not in England 1468 (? 1478), 3WL; a First Prayer Book of Edward VI., 1549, 140Z.; two Caxtons, of which the more important is a copy of ' The Fayttes of Armes and of Chyualrye,' 225/.; a thirteenth- century Psalter, in Gothic character, with six full- page paintings and other elaborate decoration, 750?.; a delightful little book of devotion, c. 1485, ' Rosarium Beate Marie Vgis.,' containing fifty- seven coloured woodcuts, 1201.; W T ynkyn de Worde's 'Vitas Patrum,' 1495, 120*.; and a Dutch MS. 'Gebedeboek' of the fifteenth century, 375/.

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MR. M. L. R. BRESLAR. The saying inquired for is evidently the sentence from Fletcher of Saltoun's 'an Account of a Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Governments for the Common Good of Mankind' (1704), published anonymously. It runs: "I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws, of a nation."