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Bicentenary Commemoration of the Royal Regi-

mi-nt of Arlilli ri/.

A BROCHURE of 8 pages gives a brief account of the origin of the Royal Reghnenl of Artillery, .ind of the presentation of a silver casket for use in Sheffield Cathedral in commemoration of this on May 26 last the 200th anniversary of the Koy.-i 1 Warrant by which its first two Companies were formed. There are portraits of Lieut.- Oneral Albert Borgard, the first colonel of the Regiment, and of Lieut.-Col. Shrapnel (a pleasing reproduction), as well as illustrations of the arms of the Regiment, and of the casket.

JOTTINGS FROM THE DECEMBER CATALOGUES (Concluded.)

A COLLECTOR who might have for the asking his choice of the 225 items described in Messrs. Myers's latest Catalogue (No. 214) would be reasonable in hesitating a day or two among its attractions. He would have to consider a number of delightful bindings, several of them by Samuel Mearne, and would probably linger most over that binder's ' Eikon Basilike,' in black morocco, with a portrait of Charles I. in the middle of the front cover a work executed especially for Charles II., which since that day has been the treasured possession of a Congre- gational minister, and again of the father of Queen Victoria, and is now offered to the pxiblic for the sum of 151. Then there is, bibliographi- cally speaking, the main prize of all described here : Dame Juliana Beraers's ' The Booke of Haukyng, Huntyng and Fysshyng,' in the edition of W. Copland of Lothbery (1565-7). This seems to be literally unique, and is in a fine state of preservation, and for it is asked the sum of 450L This is tempting, of course, but we would our- selves rather possess a fine Flemish illuminated - 1 Horae ' of the fifteenth-century School of Bruges, with 25 miniatures, and many other fascinating details, which costs 125L ; and alongside of that for desirability we would put an illuminated Persian MS. of the eighteenth century Nizami's ' Sikanda ' full of delights, and encased in a lacquer binding beautifully adorned likewise with Persian work, of which " the price is Q21. 10s. Messrs. Myers have three particularly good autographs : a letter of Queen Eliza.beth's Leicester giving directions to a keeper of Windsor Forest for a buck to be sent as a present to Mr. William Davison (1579), 211. ; a letter of Dorset -to that same Richard Staffarton, keeper, about felling trees within his charge (1595), 10L 10s. ; and one, signed " Henry de lorraine," from the famous Due de Guise, murdered at Blois in 1588, 801.

We note that the same work, in the original Latin only ' Anglorum Praelia ' appears in the Catalogue No. 204 of Mr. James Miles of Leeds, printed " Londini, apud Radulphum Nuberie. . . . 1582," and offered for 21. 10s. Mr. Miles has also Thiers's ' Histoire de la Revolution Franchise ' and Histoire du Consulat et de 1'Empire,' 32 vols. in all, half-bound in scarlet morocco a large-type library edition which belonged to Lord Holden (1874-80), 11. Is. ; a first edition of Walter Pater's ' Marius, the Epicurean," in the original cloth (1885), 21. 10s. ; Ixivelace and Davies's translation of Voiture, the first edition, in an old calf binding, which is possibly the original one, and having

beneath Voituro's portrait eight lines by Lovelace not found in his ' Lucasta ' (1657), 3/. 3s. : and the ' Tour through North Wales,' published first in 1817, with the coloured plates after Turner, Prout, and others, 61. 6s.

A great feature of Mr. Charles J. Sawyer's new Catalogue (No. 43) is the number of its extra- illustrated works. For OOZ. he is offering a copy of Bryan's ' Dictionary of Painters,' extended, by moans of 2,062 plates, some of them rare and valuable, from the 2 vols. of 1816 to 21 vols. Then there is I^ady Theresa Lewis's ' Extracts ' of Miss Berry's ' Journal ' and correspondence, extended to 6 vols. by the insertion of over 300 engravings, 151. 10s. ; Madame D'Arblay's ' Diary ' and letters, similarly illustrated, 7 vols., 122. ; and one or two moro. One of the best items in the Catalogue' to which the name ' John Ruskin's Original Study Book ' has been attached, is a collection in two elephant folio volumes, made by John Ruskin, of some 650 old engravings of English and Welsh cathedrals and abbeys, used by him as material in his early study of archi- tecture, and in several instances annotated by him. This is certainly not expensive at 30Z. A first edition of Borrow's ' Zincali ' (1841), 10L 10s. ; the Oxford edition of Defoe's ' Works ' (1840-41), 121. 12s. ; a copy of the Grolier Bible, one of the edition " de grande Luxe," limited to 86 copies, and printed entirely on Japanese vellum, 18Z. 10s. these may serve as specimens of an enjoyable collection of rare or remarkable books.

WE have much pleasure in announcing that our new volume will be^in with the first instalment of a valuable and most interesting contribution, which we owe to the generous kindness of Sir Richard Carnac Temple. This is the original private cor- respondence, now at the India Office, of a factor and merchant of Bengal, towards the end of the seventeenth century. The letters have never before been published, and would appear to be unique of their kind. Sir Richard Temple has not only transcribed them, hut has added numerous biographical, topographical and other notes in order to make complete the lovely picture they give of the Anglo-Indian life of the period.

The Athenrvum now appearing monthly, arrange- ments have been made whereby advertisements of posts vacant and wanted, which it is desired to publish weekly, may appear in the intervening weeks in 'N. & Q.'

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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FIRKS IN CORNHILL (12 S. ii. 461). MR. CKCIL CLARKE writes : "The highly interesting article n]xn this subject prompts one to hoie that MK.LKTTS may be enabled to carry out his wish to continue his researches over a later period, embracing the destruction by fire of the second Royal Exchange on Jan. 10, 1838."