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volume on Mussulman architecture, ' Architettura Musulmana, sue origin i e suo sviluppo,' of which an English version is in preparation. The Commendatore vindicates the Romano- Ravenna te origin of the Arab style a view which cannot fail to be of interest to those who, for cultural or other reasons, are glad to think of the origins of our -civilization in terms of Rome. Mr. Edward Speyer reproduces the water-colour drawing ' Mozart pere et ses deux enfants,' by Louis Carrogis dit Carmontelle, which has been recently hung in the French Boom at the National Gallery, and is of much interest to lovers of the " infant prodigy " who grew to be Mozart. Several other portraits of the great musician are reproduced. Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy concludes his discussion of Buddhist Primitives, and reproduces some fine examples of the Buddha in contemplation dating from the second century A.D. Mr. Hamilton Bell writes on Mr. C. L. Butherston's Chinese bronzes lately exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, chiefly with reference to three magnificent pieces of ancient, but somewhat uncertain date, which illustrate the use of the " monster face " as a basis of ornament. The examples accompanying the article are of great beauty. We may conclude by mentioning Sir Martin Conway's account of the book of court etiquette compiled by Alienor, Vicomtesse de Fumes, a lady of the Court of the Duke of Burgundy about 1490.

CUBIOSITIES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

(See ante, p. 180.)

3-IBSSBS. BIMELL'S Catalogue (No. 241) describes drawings and engravings. There are eight examples of Hollar's work, from which we may mention the ' Trial of Straff ord,' an original impression (1641, 51. 5s.), and the Mantegna vase (1640, 111. Us.). Adrian van Ostade is represented by half-a-dozen works, of which the ' Violin Player ' and the ' Fete under the Great Tree,' in good early impressions (51. 5s. each), and a water-colour drawing of the artist, offered for 131. 13s., are the best. The Bembrandts are numerous, and include several attractive first states, e.g., ' Christ driving the Money- Changers from the Temple ' (1635, 161. 16s.), ' Strolling Musicians' (1635, 151. 15s.), and 'The Virgin and Child with the Cat' (1654, 131. 13s.). A scrap- book containing 172 etchings by Callot is another item worth noting (1QL 10s.) ; and we may also mention a drawing (pen, pencil, and wash) by Jan Steen, ' Cavalry Soldiers in a Barn,' of which the price is Ql. 6s. At the end of the Catalogue js described a little collection of autographs and documents ; from these we select for notice a letter by Blake to the Commissioners for the Admiralty (1654, 31. 3s.) and a collection of Admiralty Orders, which includes two signed by Pepys (4Z. 4s.).

Mr. James G. Commin of Exeter has the fin a Plantin work in commemoration of the entry and inauguration of Albert of Austria as Prince of the Netherlands (1602, 47. ). He has also Evelyn's ' Compleat Gardener' (1693, 31. 3s.); Heath's ' Chronicle of the Late Intestine War ' (1676, 2Z. 15.) ; a first edition of Dryden's ' Sylvee ' <1685, 11. 5s.) ; and a good copy of the second collected edition of the works of Beaumont and Fletcher (1679, 4Z. 10s.).

The three best seventeenth-century articles in the Catalogue (No. 251) of Messrs. Dobell are a first edition of Donne's ' Pseudo-martyr ' (1610, 31. 3s.) ; Thomas Nash's ' Quaternio ' (1633, 21. 10s.) ; and Davenant's ' Works ' (1673, 11. Is.) ; and there are several good items which, if less important in the eyes of bibliophiles, are equally or more so in the eyes of students. /

In their previous Catalogue we had noted a collection of ten pamphlets belonging to the sixteen-forties (31. 3s.) ; two good copies of Izaak Walton's 'Life' of Hooker (1665, 4Z. 4s. each); two interesting collections of material on the Popish Plot ; a collection of pamphlets on the Jesuits (11. Is.) ; Langbaine's ' English Dramatick Poets ' (1691, 21. 10s.) ; Latham's ' Falconry ' (1658, 4Z. 4s.); and Mary Carleton's 'Memories of the Life of the Famous Madam Charlton ' (1673, 21. 10s.). The great prizes of Messrs. Dobell's collection, however, are a first edition of Suckling's Fragmenta Aurea ' (1646, 321.) ; Cyril Tourneur's ' The Bevenger's Tragcedie ' (1608, 12Z. 12s.) ; Fletcher's ' Purple Island,' in the first edition (1633, 51. 10s.) ; and Marlowe's ' Hero and Leander ' (1637) from the Hans Sotheby library (151. 15s.).

In the Catalogue of Messrs. William George's Sons of Bristol we found but a single seventeenth- century item ; that, however, is an interesting one : Bobert Knox's ' Historical Belation of the Island of Ceylon ' (1681, 51. 10s.).

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MR. F. H. H. GUILLEMARD, MR. S. L. PETTY, and Y. T. Forwarded.

MR. H. E. GRIFFITHS. Your kind offer has been communicated to MR. L. A. DUKE.

MR. WILLIAM MAC ARTHUR (' A Jewish History of England '). MR. PIERPOINT refers to the note by MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS at 11 S. x. 25.

W. (' Dean Church on Browning's " Sordello " '). MR. SPARKE writes that this article appears in Macmillaris Magazine, vol. lv., February, 1887, pp. 241-53.

MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS. DR. CLIPPINGDALE writes that in The Journal of Balneology and Climatology for January, 1907 (London, Bale & Sons), under the heading ' A Bygone Buckingham- shire Health Resort,' he described Dorton Spa and gave all the information he could find of it.

CORRIGENDUM. M.A.OxoN. writes : " Ante, p. 133, col. 1, the date of the pedigree of Lydiard should be 1868, not 1865."