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MB. ALBERT BUTTON of Manchester devotes Catalogue 228 to Miscellaneous Books. This contains lists tinder Dialect and Place-Names, Lancashire and Yorkshire figuring prominently, B is natural. Cheshire and Yorkshire are also well represented by topographical and historical works. Among the general entries may be noted Macgibbon and Ross's ' Ecclesiastical History of Scotland to the Seventeenth Century,' 3 vols., 1896, 21. 10s. ; a set of The Bibliographer, 6 vols., 1882-4, 16s. Qd. ; Gunning's Cambridge ' Re- miniscences,' 2 vols., 1854, 14s. ; 57 vols. of ' The Court and City Register' between 1766-1870 (not consecutive), 4Z. 4^. ; a set of C. G. Harper's Road Books, first editions, 28 vols., 2H. ; Copin- ger's ' Suffolk,' 6 vols., 1904-7, 21. ; and the " Tudor Library," 5 vols., 1890-97, 31. 3s.

ALFRED SHELLEY ELLIS.

Ix the death of Alfred Saeliey Ellis ' N. & Q.' has to regret tb.3 loss of a contributor of nearly forty years standing, for replies on the early history of the De Stuteville family and the Chauncy family rtT>peared with the signature " A. 8. Ellis " in ' N. & Q.' for May 4, 1878, and his latest contri- bution ' The Lady Godiva and the Countess Lucy ' on Nov. 11 last year, two days before he left Westminster to reside with his only son at Moseley, Birmingham, where he passed peacefully away on Sunday, Oct. 14.

Mr. Ellis, the youngest son of Robert Ellis, a surgeon of Bristol, formerly of Beverley, was born on April 27, 1842, and educated at Bristol Grammar School. He settled in Westminster as an architect, and was for many years associated with Sir William. Emerson. He married in 1877 Harriett, daughter of George Archer of Potter's Bar, whose death in 1911 affected him deeply.

Apart from his profession, Mr. Ellis was a close student of the original sources of Anglo-Norman history and genealogy, as shown by his earliest and latest contributions to ' N. & Q.' Another good example is his note on ' Askwith or Asquith ' in ' N. & Q.' for June 13, 1908, inspired by Mr. Asquith's accession to the Premiership, and tracing the name to an " Adam de Askwyth " who witnessed a deed in 1290-91. The name Askquith is a family name, as his grandfather Robert Lllis of Beverley married at the end of the eighteenth century Mary Askquith of Leeds. He always main- tained that family names should be continued, and so christened his only son Robert Battiscombe Askquith, the second name after his mother's maiden name. His older brother, a surgeon, was also named James Askquith Ellis.

He was a most painstaking writer and draughts- man, and contributed amongst others lengthy articles to The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal on ' Yorkshire Tenants named in Domesday Book,' 'Dodsworth's Yorkshire Notes (Agbrigg),' and ' Yorkshire Deeds from Burton Constable.' For the Thoresby Society he wrote ' Notes on Ralph Thoresby's Pedigree,' ' Yorkshire A.D. 120, accord- ing to Ptolemy's Geography,' and the ' Picture of Pontefract Castle in Hampton Court Palace.' In this he quotes 'N. &. Q.,' 11 S. iv. 453 and 496. He made this discovery as recently as November, 1911. It was previously styled in the official catalogue

'A Castle.' For the East Riding Antiquarian Society he wrote ' Notes on East Riding Families and their Arms.'

He was a constant visitor at the British Museum and the Record Office, and an intimate friend of many Yorkshire antiquaries.

MR. HEYWOOD SUMNER, already known by his 4 Ancient Earthworks of Cranborne Chase,' has just produced through the Chiswick Press a companion volume, ' The Ancient Earthworks of the New Forest.' Besides the descriptions of the earthworks, there will be 42 plans and 30 illus- trations, including a coloured map showing the physical features and the ancient sites of the New Forest. The price of the book is 11. net, and only 200 copies are for sale.

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H. L. H. B. (" Next of Kin Wanted "). Messrs. Collins, Sons & Co. published in 1911 ' Next of Kin Wanted,' by M. Betham-Edwarda r price 3 %d. net.

A. E. MARTEN (" Curious Christian Names "). Many names of the kind have already been recorded in ' N. & Q.,' as will be seen in the- Indexes under ' Christian Names.'

REV. ST. B. S. SLADEN (" Nine of diamonds and the Curse of Scotland "). This has been extensively discussed in ' N. & Q.' See 8 S. iii. 367, 398, 416, 453 ; iv. 537 ; v. 11. 113 ; vi. 185 ; vii. 274 ; 9 S. v. 493.

H. S. B. (" Neanderthal "). This is the name of a ravine in Rhenish Prussia, where some remarkable prehistoric human remains were dis- covered in 1856, including a cranium considered by Huxley to be the most apelike yet found. Two similar skulls have since been discovered at Spy in Belgium. See ' The Encyclopaedia Bri- tannica,' s.v. Neanderthal.