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GENERAL INDEX OF THE ELEVENTH SERIES.

NUMEROUS inquiries having been made about the General Index of the Eleventh Series, it is necessary that a statement should be put before our readers.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER SO, 191(1.

CONTENTS.-No. 40. GENERAL INDEX OF THE ELEVENTH SERIES.

NOTES : General Boulanger : Bibliography, 261 Land Tenure : an Artful Stratagem Statues and Memorial* in the British Isles, 263 The Butcher s Record Old American Geography, 265 C. Lamb : ' Mrs. Battle's Opinions on Whist' "Women in White" German Papers, Please Copy, 266.

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267 Arms cut on Glass Punch-Bowl Restoration of Old Deeds and Manuscripts Certain Gentlemen of the Six- teenth Century Capel-le-Ferne, Kent, 268 Jonathan Bunks Authors Wanted Madame de Stael Brassey (Bracey) Family Wreck of the Orantham, 1744 " Driblows "" Who's Griffiths?" Fau.st Bibliography, 269 Sir Robeit Price, Bart., 270.

REPLIES : Henchman, Hinchman, or Hitchman, 270- A Mediaeval Hymn St. George the Martyr, Queen's Square "Biblia de buxo," 271 An English Army List of 1740, 272 Lincoln's Inn Hall *<ere!, Caricaturist St. Peter as the Gatekeeper of Heaven, 273 Thomas Panton Grave of Margaret Godolphin, 274 The Kffect of Opening a Coffin Mrs. Anne Dutton Portraits iu Stained Glass, 275 Nell Gwynne and the Royal Chelsea Hospital Panoramic Surveys of London Streets Yorker '' : a Cricket Term, 276 Fact or Fancy '? Headstones with Portraits of the Deceased Materials for a History of the Watts Family of Southampton Bardsey Island : Con- scription Capt. John Warde, 277 Old MS. Verses Dr. Thomas Chevalier -Steyuing : Steniug, 278 Topp Family Crest Shakespeare Allusion 'The Working Man's Way in th World '" Reread," ''Screed "-Theophilus Gale, the Nonconformist Tutor Theatrical M.P.s Marshals of France, 279.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Calendar of the Patent Rolls : Henry VII.' ' Wace, and the " Roman de Ron." '

Notices to Correspondents.

GENERAL BOULANGER: BIBLIOGRAPHY.

THE twenty- fifth anniversary of the death of General Boulanger, which falls to-day, Sept. 30, may recall the somewhat curious fact that no adequate biography of the general, or history of the movement to which he gave his name, has yet appeared. At p.ny rate, nothing answering that description is known to the present writer. It may be that some such work has escaped my notice, and it is largely with the hope of eliciting information on the subject that I have drawn up the subjoined bibliography. It is, no doubt, very incomplete, and some of the books and pamphlets mentioned in it are known to me only by name. So far my endeavours to procure these have been unsuccessful.