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Prof. Lyon Turner aptly reminds us that freedom to worship as they chose was theirs only in virtue of the licence granted by the King, which carried no acknowledgment of any general principle of religious tolerance. It is not sur- prising that to the nation at large the political aspect of Charles's action seemed even more important than its ecclesiastical bearing. The whole matter has been canvassed up and down we had almost said ad nauseam, and our author considerately devotes only a few solid and well- weighed pages to general discussion. The staple of the volume is biographical.

Of the names illustrated here only a com- paratively small proportion will be found in works of reference, such as the ' Dictionary of National Biography.' For the great mass of them the work of constructing the account had to be begun, if not absolutely ab initio, yet from different inconspicuous and not easily accessible collections of facts, while in the case of many these pages are the first connected " life " to be had.

The principal new biography is that of Dr. Nicholas Butler. This personage, of distin- guished merit, and no less distinguished demerits, remains, when we have weighed -all the docu- ments pertaining to him, rather mysterious something of a psychological paradox. We are inclined to impute his decline from his first good "ways to his matrimonial misfortunes, but we acknowledge that the evidence for this opinion is scanty. There is a sprinkling of the well-born and the well-educated among these early Non- conformists more numerous, for this period, than many people might suppose ; and Prof. Turner has set out several letters possessing a literary quality which savours of worldly well- being. But for the most part he has had in hand the task plainly congenial of restoring to something like life the figures of simple men and women whose independent attitude in religion was the one outstanding thing about them. Each taken by itself may be considered a meagre thing seen at this distance ; but regarded all together, in a serried array, yet having each just that individuality which Prof. Lyon Turner has succeeded in eliciting from the little that is known of him, they are undoubtedly impressive.

To the world at large this is a work of reference, but we can imagine many of those to whom our own pages afford entertainment as well as mere information finding in this third volume a mine of amusement, and many an occasion of sympathy and admiration.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

MESSRS. GLAISHER include in their Catalogue 428, containing Publishers' Remainders, W. Hamilton's ' Dated Book-Plates,' the three parts (offered for 7s. Qd.), and the Rev. P. H. Ditchfield's ' The Old English Country Squire ' (4s. 6d.), two books of special interest to readers of ' N. & Q.' There are several works relating to Japan and China. The one- volume edition of Mrs. Cunninghame Graham's 4 Santa Teresa ' may be had for 3s. Qd. ; and Mr. A. G. F. Howell's ' St. Bernardino of Siena ' for 3s. Qd. Prof. E. Pais's ' Ancient Legends of Roman History ' is 4s. Qd. The Catalogue also contains a section devoted to French Biography, History, and Literature, and another relating to Biography, History, Letters, and Memoirs.

MESSRS. HICHAM & SON'S Catalogue 549 contains nearly 1,500 entries. The first is Dr. Abbott's ' Flatland,' recently inquired about in ' N. & Q.,' 1884, 12s. 6d. "Under Architecture are several books on cathedrals, including Prof. Bonney's ' Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches of England and Wales,' 6 vols., 12s. Qd., and a work to which the present sufferings of France lend additional interest, the Abb6 J. J. Bourass6's ' Cath^drales de France,' A. J. C. Hare's copy, Tours, 1843, 4s. Qd. ' The Fight in Dame Europa's School,' another subject discussed in ' N. & Q.,' may, along with seven cognate pamph- lets, be had for 2s. Qd. The section Hymnology contains over 150 items, and that on the Hebrew People, Language, and Literature nearly 100.

MESSRS. HILL & SON'S Catalogue 129 contains many noteworthy entries. Thus among topo- graphical works we may call attention to Dun- cumb's ' Collections towards the History of the County of Hereford,' 2 vols., 1804, 31. 15s. ; a large-paper copy of Cussans's ' Hertfordshire.' 3 vols., with India proofs, 1870-73, 61. 10s.; Lambarde's ' Perambulation of Kent,' black- letter, 1596, 41. 15s. ; Hasted's ' Kent,' second edition, 12 vols., 1798, 11. 15s. ; and a set of the Archceologia Cantiana from 1858 to 1898, 28 vols., SI. 8s. Loggan's ' Oxonia Illustrata,' 1675, and ' Cantabrigia Illustrata,' 1688, bound in one volume, with brilliant impressions of the prints, are 22L 10s. ; J. T. Smith's ' Antiquities of London,' 96 plates, first issue, 1791, is 21. 10s. ; and Chancellor's ' Ancient Sepulchral Monuments of Essex,' 200 plates, 1890, also 21. 10s. Scotland is represented by Mclan and Logan's ' Clans of the Scottish Highlanders,' 2 vols., first edition, 1845, 91. 15s. ; and James Grant's ' Clans of Scotland,' 1886, 11. Is., and ' The Tartans of the Clans of Scotland,' 1886, 11. 15s. For Ireland there is Copeland Borlase's ' Dolmens of Ireland,' 3 vols., 800 illustrations, 1897, 21. 15s. Among other works of interest are Apperley's ' Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton,' coloured plates by H. Alken and T. J. Rawlins, 2nd ed., 1837, 121. 12s. ; Child's ' English and Scottish Ballads,' 8 vols., 1861, 21. 2s. ; Farmer's ' Merry Songs and Ballads prior to 1800,' 5 vols., 1897, 41. 4s. ; the first collected edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Works, 1686, 31. 15s. ; Skeat's ' Chaucer,' 7 vols., 1899, 31. 15s. Qd. ; W. C. Fletcher's ' English and Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum,' plates by Griggs, 2 vols., 51. 18s. Qd. ; and the ' Collectanea ' of our old contributor Vincent Stuckey Lean, 5 vols., 1902-4, 11. 15s.

MR. HAROLD REEVES sends from Vale Road, Claygate, his Catalogue 8, ' Music and Musicians,' including many books from the library of another old contributor to ' N. & Q.,' Dr. W. H. Cummings. The Catalogue is arranged alphabetically under authors, with sections devoted to celebrities like Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Handel, and Wagner. The entries under Carols range from Is. to 5s. ; and the sections devoted to Singing Games and Psalmody and Hymnody will have special interest for our readers, many of the items not exceeding half-a-crown. A copy of the catalogue of the six days' sale of Dr. Cummings's collection is offered for half a, guinea, and a copy con taming the prices realized for a guinea. More expensive items are Mace's ' Musick's Monument,' 1676, 6Z. 6s., and Van der Straeten's ' La Musique aux Pays-Bas avant le dix-neuvieme Siecle,' 8 vols., 1867-88, 4Z. 4s.