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missing. To the books containing American reminiscences might be added ' Letters of Richard Watson Gilder' (Constable and Houghton-Mifflin, 1916). Of articles perhaps enough are mentioned, but \ve should like to add ' Robert Louis Steven- son : an Anniversary Chapter,' by W. M. Wilfrid Ueynell, in The Academy of Dec. 19, 1896.

Col. Prideaux's ' Bibliography ' first appeared in 1903 in a st\ IP similar to that of the " Edinburgh Stevenson." The present reissue is associated with the " Pentland Edition " of 1906. It should have a secure appeal to all lovers of R. L. S.

The Weather Calendar; or, A Record of the Weather for Every Day in the Year. Being a Series of Passages collected from Letters and Diaries, and arranged by Mrs. Henry Head. (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2s. net.)

THE compiler of this charming little anthology is to be congratulated on her happy idea and the skilful way in which she has carried it out. Thus on New Year's Day we learn from Pepys that in 1667 the Thames was covered with ice; next day we get a glimpse of Mrs. Delany nailing list round her doors, and " stopping every crank and crevice that let in cold air "; and on the following day Horace Walpole laments the destruction of two of his " beautiful elms " through a tempest, but philosophically thinks it "no loss " that his nephew Dysart has had five-and-thirty of his old elms blown down. These opening passages show that the interest of the book is by no means confined to the weather, but that many glimpses are incidentally afforded into men, manners, and customs. Thus incidentally old Lord Mayor's Day and St. Martin's summer have their illus- trative quotations.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

MESSRS. COLLIER & SON send us from Leaming- ton their Catalogue 52, Second-Hand Books in all Classes of Literature. There is a good list of publications of the Huguenot Society, offered separately at prices ranging from 3s. to 1Z. 10s., and including two volumes of denizations and naturalizations of aliens (see ante, pp. 130, 172). Under Military are some regimental histories; and under Lancashire is ' The His- tory of Rossall School,' 4s. (see ante, pp. 78, 145, 174). The list under Worcester- shire contains reprints of episcopal registers, churchwardens' accounts, Subsidy Rolls, &c.; and that under Yorkshire Davis's ' Extracts from the Municipal Records of York during the Reigns of Edward IV., Edward V., and Richard III.,' 1843, 4:8. 6d. There is a section devoted to Theology, containing 150 items, many at Is. Qd. or 2s. 6d.

' THE LITERATURE OF THE RESTORATION : being a Collection of the Poetical and Dramatic Litera- ture produced between the Years 1660 and 1700, with Particular Reference to the Writings of John Dryden,' though issued by MESSRS. DOBELL in the form of a catalogue of works for sale, with prices attached, is really a substantial addition to Restoration bibliography, and students of the period will gladly pay the shilling necessary to obtain it. The works are described and annotated by Mr. Percy J. Dobell, who thus shows that he inherits his father's love of literature. The major portion of the catalogue consists of more than a thousand poems and plays arranged under their

authors' names (those under Dryden reach from 264 to 431). Then follow sections devoted to anonymous poems chronologically arranged, un- dated anonymous poems alphabetically arranged, anonymous plays, ' Tonson's Miscellany Volumes,' ' Poems on Affairs of State,' ' Books of Composite Authorship,' &c. This enumeration will give an idea of the care and skill devoted to rendering the catalogue a useful work of reference. It would have been a mine of delight to such old biblio- graphical contributors to ' N. & Q.' as Edward Solly, the Rev. W. J. Ebsworth, W. P. Courtney, and Col. Prideaux, and we hope that it will afford no less pleasure to our present readers. Under Andrew Marvell Mr. Dobell refers to the descrip- tion in ' N. & Q.' of a unique copy of his poems; but in the notes on ' Poems on Affairs of State ' he does not mention the elaborate index of first lines of these poems, and others contained in some of the volumes included in the section ' Books of Composite Authorship," which Mr. Solly printed in the sixth volume of the Fifth Series of ' N. & Q.' Other students of Restoration literature may like to have their attention called to Mr. Solly's valuable labours.

MR. JOHN GRANT of Edinburgh has in his June Catalogue of Second-Hand Books several works of special interest to readers of ' N. & Q.,' such as Child's ' English and Scottish Popular Ballads,' 5 vols., original boards, Boston, 1882-98, 13Z.; Wright's ' Dialect Dictionary,' 6 vols., half calf, 4Z. 10s.; vol. ii. of Beaven's ' Aldermen of London,' 4s. 6d.; and Copmger's ' Heraldry Simplified,' 1910, 7s. Qd., besides some family histories. A complete set of ' N. & Q.,' 1849-1915, including the ten General Indexes, 142 vols., half morocco and cloth, is 30Z. Mr. Grant has also a set of ' Book-Prices Current,' 1887-1914, with the two Decennial Indexes, 30 vols., 151. 15s.; and several long series of important Reviews, Transac- tions, and Proceedings. American History and Travel, Canadian History and Travel, and Australian and New Zealand Books have separate sections allotted to them.

MR. GREGORY sends from Bath Nos. 248-9 of his ' Literary Vade-Mecum.' Among the Bibles catalogued is the first edition of Cranmer's, black-letter, with Cromwell's arms as well as Cranmer's, original oak boards, 180/. A collection of 93 issues of ' The Oxford Almanack,' ranging between 1728 and 1854, and mounted in a folio volume, is 301. A history of the parish of Lambeth, founded on Manning and Bray's text, and expanded into three royal folio volumes, contains 562 illustrations, collected about 1835, and comprising engraved portraits, water-colour drawings, autograph letters, &c. (120?.). There is a series of 28 coloured aquatints of English cathedrals, drawn and etched by John Buckler, ranging in price from II. 15s. to 31. each. Mr. Gregory has a copy of Gilmore's rare map of Bath, 1695, 51., with cheaper facsimiles; and a collection of 1,150 Bath Theatre playbills, 1826-42, conta ining several dramatized versions of Dickens" novels, 10Z.

MESSRS. HIGHAM & SON, who make a special feature of theological works, include hi their ' Spring Catalogue of Good Second-Hand Books ' (No. 551) sections on Atonement, Bells, Cate- chizing, Eastern Church, Homiletics, Irvingism, Mystics, Prayer, Prophecy, Saints, Sunday Schools, Temperance, and Working-Men. The