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'Copies from Swinburne's library, and several good things in the way of the poet's own works. An item worth noting is a set of the French ' Court Memoirs,' brought out from 1878 to 1890 by Lady Jackson fourteen volumes in all 34Z.

Messrs. Hill send us what they modestly call ' A Rough List ' of second-hand books (No. 126). It is a good one, and of varied interest. The following may serve as specimens of the works there described belonging to pur period : nine volumes of the ' Arabian Nights' Entertain- ments ' (1882) (Payne's translation), with a volume containing ' Aladdin ' (1889), ten volumes in all, printed for the Villon Society, Ql, 9s. ; a complete set, in 16 vols., of A. H. Bullen's edition of ' Old English Dramatists ' (1885), 12?. ; Spencer Walpole's ' History of England,' from 1815, 5 vols. (1879-86), 31. 15s. ; Kaye's ' A History of the Sepoy War in India' (1880), Malleson's ' History of the Indian Mutiny ' (1878), and Pincott's ' Analytical Index ' to these two works (1880), 5 vols. in all, 21. 12s. 6d. ; Grosart's edition -of the 'Complete Works' of Daniel (1885-96), 47. 4s. ; Ormerod's ' Cheshire,' in T. Helsby's en- larged edition of 1882, 31. 15s. ; and Aubrey Beardsley's ' King Arthur ' Malory's text, edited by Prof. Rhys 2 vols., 1893, 11. 15s.

In the new Catalogue which Mr. John Grant -of Edinburgh has just sent us we noticed the following items which fall within our present purview, and may be of interest to our readers : Wright and McLean's ' Eusebius ' (1898), 5s. ; Swete's ' Theodore of Mopsuestia on the Minor Epistles of St. Paul ' (1882), 5s. ; Searle's ' Anglo- Saxon Bishops, Kings, and Nobles ' (1899), 5s. ; Key's ' Latin - English Dictionary" "dealing primarily with those words which require novel -or special treatment " (1888), 10s. 60. ; Jessopp and James's ' Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich,' edited from the unique MS. in the Cambridge University Library (1896), 5s. ; and O'Hanlon's ' Laves of the Irish Saints,' 51. 5s. (Messrs. Hill, by the way, have also a copy of this offered at the same price.)

Mr. C. Richardson of Manchester, in his Cata- logue (No. 80), describes between three and four hundred books, among which we noticed a copy of Leo Grindon's ' Lancashire ' offered for 11. 2s. 6d. (1882) ; a copy of ' Le Livre d'Or de Victor Hugo par 1' Elite des Artistes et des Ecrivains Contemporains ' (1883), offered for 11. 10s. ; ' The Life and Works of Pope,' as compiled by Croker, and issued 1871-86, with Elwin and Courthope's Introduction and notes, 10 vols., 21. 10s. ; and Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses,' 4 vols., for 1Z. 10s. (1888).

Mr. Barnard's highly enjoyable Catalogue (No. Ill), describing Autographs, Manuscripts, Docu- ments, and Drawings, deals for the most part with things further from us than the last quarter of the nineteenth century ; we marked, however, a few items which fall within it. Thus he has a copy of ' The Governor's Guide to Windsor Castle ' (1895), bearing inscribed on the fly-leaf, " From ' the Governor ' to A. Lang, with affectionate good wishes for the New Year, 1896 " the said Governor being the late Duke of Argyll, II. 15s. A good copy of William Bell Scott s ' Poems, Ballads, Studies from Nature, Sonnets, &c.,' in "the original white cloth, published in 1875, costs

1Z. 10s. ; and there is Andrew Lang's copy of the 1878 Hibbert Lectures ' On the Origin and Growth of Religion, as illustrated by the Religions of India ' the fly-leaves of which are covered with his notes, 16s. This Catalogue contains some interesting illustrations.

Messrs. Sotheran & Co. have sent us Part VI. and last (Catalogue No. 766) of their extensive Bibliotheca Reuteriana. This, " containing modern standard works on the exact sciences," is not perhaps so much in our line as the previous ones, but we have picked out a few works which in one way or another may be considered to be of general interest. Such are Ambronn's ' Hand- buch der Astronomischen Instrumentenkunde ' (1899), 2Z. ; Dr. Venn's 'Logic of Chance ' (1888), offered for Is. ; the same author's ' Symbolic Logic,' in the revised edition of 1894, 7s. ; and Flammarion's edition of Dien's ' Atlas Celeste ' (1897), 1Z. 5s.

We may conclude with a mention of the Cata- logue of Messrs. Simmons & Waters of Leaming- ton. They have about a score of important extra- illustrated : ; books in good bindings, of which the following belong to the period we are considering : ' A New Calendar of Great Men ' Frederic Harrison's edition of Comte, 1892, one volume extended to two, and bound by Bayntun of Bath, 51. 5s. ; J. R. Green's ' Short History,' the Illus- trated edition of 4 vols., extended to 8 with addi- tional views and portraits (1892-4), 10Z. Tnis is bound by Bayntun, as is also Lecky's ' History of England in the Eighteenth Century,' extra - illustrated (1878-90), HZ. 11s. The last we will note is a copy of ' The Inns of Old South- wark,' the work, as our correspondents know, of Messrs. W. and P. Norman, to whom our own columns have frequently been indebted ; this, extended from one volume to two, and bound by Birdsall of Northampton, is here to be had for 4Z. 17s. Qd.

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DR. J. B. HUBBY. Many thanks. If the book contains historical or other matter falling within the scope of ' N. & Q.' we shall be glad to see it.

MBS. M. D. BUTLER DANA (New York). Forwarded.

MRS. ANDERSON. Many thanks for your bibliographical suggestion. We hope to carry it out.

MR. H. DUGDALE SYKES. Many thanks for letter.

W. H. C. " Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such," <kc This will be found in Goldsmith's ' Retaliation.'

CORRIGENDA. Ante, p. 362, col. 2, first note, for "pp. 188-9 (1794)" read "p. 188 (1896)." P. 386, col. 2, 11. 13 and 12 from foot, for " in-situation " read inatitution. P. 389, col. 1, 1. 8 from foot, for " Pricg. " read Princ*-(= Principally).