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View Fields (now Regency Square) to the Dyke Road, two miles, on March 28, 1797, by eighty-four oxen, lent by the local farmers. The oxen are in six rows of fourteen in each row.

The Bear Road Mill also was removed from another position to that site some sixty years since. H. A. C. SAUNDERS.

ANECDOTES OF MONKEYS (12 S. i. 166, 232, 338). Nassau Senior's ' Biographical Sketches ' (Longman), 1863, ends up with a chapter of Anecdotes of Monkeys.' It is a very slender affair. Waterton's ' Natural History Essays,' Buckland's ' Curiosities of Natural History,' G. J. Romanes's ' Animal Intelligence,' and Jardine's "Naturalists' Library," vol. xxvii., all contain anecdotes of monkeys. In 1859 Cassell issued an anony- mous volume, ' The Natural History of Monkeys,' and in 1848 a similar class of compilation appeared, entitled ' The History of Monkeys.' A. L. HUMPHREYS.

187 Piccadilly, W.

" ENTIRE " (12 S. i. 447). Brewers have not yet removed all the signs bearing this term. I have seen it outside various inns within recent years in the locality of Southampton, Reading, and Liverpool.

WM. JAGGARD, Lieut.

0n 15 oaks,

The, First Editions of the Writings of Thorn a Hardy and their Values. By Henry Danielson. (Allen & Unwin, 2s. 6eL net.)

A LITTLE work which, in some 40 well-printed and well set out pages, gives a careful description and collation of the first editions of all Mr. Hardy's works, together with a hibliography of the two collected editions which have thus far appeared. The present values of the various works, and a few notes as to the place and method of first appearances, as to the fortune of the several hooks at auction- sales and a few other matters are added in each case. No doubt the values will change from one decade to another : at the present moment none of the prices recorded is sensational, and the highest are given for those lighter works which are of interest to the collector rather than the man of letters. The most valuable from this monetary point of view would appear to be Desperate Remedies'; Mr. Danielson thinks that a erood example of the first edition would fetch from 30Z. to 35. Next come the first editions of ' A Pair of Blue Eyes' and 'Under the Greenwood Tree,' which might fetch from 10/ : to 151. in a good copy. We are given interesting in formation as to where the original MSS.of some of the works are to be found. Of these ' The Dynasts ' and ' Tess of the D'Urbervilles ' are in the British Museum ; ' A Group of NoMe Dames' (incomplete) is in the Library of Congress, Washington : * Jude the Obscure ' in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ;

' The Mayor of Casterbridge' in the Dorset County Museum, Dorchester ; ' Poems of the Past and the Present' at the Bodleian ; ' The Trumpet-Major' in the possession of the King at Windsor ; ' Wessex Poems ' in the Birmingham Art Gallery ; and 'The Return of the Native' in the library of Mr. Clement Shorter.

York Pewferp.ru. Being a List of all those Pewterers who were Freemen of the City of York, or of the Pewterers' Guild of York, or were apprenticed to Freemen. 1272-1835. By Howard H, Cotterell. Reprinted from The Link. (Gloucester, John Bellows, 3*. 6d.)

THE main body of this monograph consists of a list of the names of York Pewterers as described on the title-page arranged alphabetically, and having appended to them dates, and notes of any informa- tion discovered concerning them. We are inclined to think that a chronological arrangement would have been more interesting and more useful. It would have been convenient to see at a glance in which half-century, and by how much, the pewterers were increasing or decreasing in number ; and also to have together the groups of con- temporary names.

Still, this criticism apart, we must congratulate our correspondent upon having brought to a con- clusion, and to completion, abit of historical research which is certainly of value. It seems improbable that anything will be found to be added to it in the way of names, or much in the way of personal information concerning the pewterers themselves. The earliest of them was one William de Ordesale, who obtained his freedom in 1347/8; there are seven or eight more entries before 1400, and the largest number belong to the seventeenth century. The names which fill the greatest space are Bous- field (1567-1689), Cooke (1588/9-1652/3), Loftus (1661-1714). Richardson (1539-1668/9), and Rodwell (1677-1734/5). Three or four women's names occur as those of freewomen, to whom a^so appren- tices were bound. Not many particulars of bio- graphical interest are forthcoming : we learn that several of the pewterers attained to being City Chamberlains ; that in 1599 a William Cooke was refused the freedom because he had not submitted an essay piece ; and that a George Lockwood who may not have been a pewterer. and has no date attached to him once presented a mould to the Company ; but there is not much else in the way of gossipy detail. Mr. Cotterell give" a separate list of the Searchers for bad ware chosen by the Company from 1665 to 1760, extracted from the York Pewterers' Company's Book of Ordinances, &c.

The brochure is a thin crown 4to of which only 100 copies have been issued is composed of 16 leaves of hand-made paper printed only on one side, so that the other may be used for notes, and is most attractively " got up."

Manual of Gloucestershire Literature. Biographical Supplement. Part II. By Francis Adams Hyett and Roland Austin. (Gloucester, printed for the Subscribers by John Bellows.) THE second part of the Biographical Supplement, of which we reviewed the first part ante, p. 79, is chiefly remarkable for the careful, we might perhaps even sav exhaustive, bibliography of George White- field. This is a solid piece of work, which must have consumed a great amount of time and energy, and its whereabouts should be made a note of by those-