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Surnames of the United Kingdom : a Concise Etymological Dictionary. By Henry Harrison. Parts 17-19. Waggett Woodleigh. (Morland Press, 190 Ebury Street, S.W.I, Is. net each.) MB. HARBISON'S formidable undertaking, to which we have on several occasions called attention, draws near conclusion. In these three parts occur such notable names as Wellesley, Wentworth, Wesley, Wilberforce, Wolseley, and Wolsey. Trade-names are represented by Wain(e)wright, Whit(e)bread, and Whittier (white- leather tawer or dresser). Whelp recalls a famous Italian family ; and long and interesting notes are supplied under Wevil and William. Readers of ' N. & Q.' will be glad to welcome the final instalment of Mr. Harrison's learned work.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

MB. P. M. BABNABD of Tunbridge Wells devotes his Catalogue 116 to ' Books on Art.' He offers a number of Arundel Society chromolithographs at prices ranging from 5s. to 31. 6s. He has also some works issued by the Burlington Fine Arts Club, including several illustrated catalogues. Sections are allotted to Catalogues of Art Sales, Reproductions of Drawings and of Pictures, and Rembrandt. The main catalogue is supplemented by lists of Drawings, Topographical Drawings and Prints, Portraits, and Engravings.

THE principal item in MESSBS. H. R. HILL & SON'S Catalogue 131 is a richly illuminated manuscript ' Horae ' on vellum, Flemish, 15th century, 78 leaves, 126Z. A copy of the Nurem- berg Chronicle, 1493, black-letter, is 181. 10s. Works on the peerage include Dugdale's ' Baronage of England,' 3 vols. in 2, 1675, 31. 3s.-, and Edmondson's ' Baronagium Genealogicum,' 6 vols., 1764-84, 81. 15s. Dibdin's ' Typographical Antiquities,' 4 vols., 1810, half polished red morocco by Bedford, is 10Z. 10s. ; and Hain's ' Repertorium,' 4 vols., original wrappers, 1826-38, 121. 12s. Rees's ' Lives of the Cambro-British Saints,' Llandovery, 1853, is 21. 2s. Under London will be found Faulkner's ' Chelsea and its Environs,' 2 vols. in 1, 1829, 1Z. 10s. ; ' Ken- sington,' 1820, 1Z. 10s. ; and ' Hammersmith,' 1839, 18s. Gd. A set of Ebsworth's ' Choyce Drollery,' 1656, ' Merry Drolleries,' 1661-91, and 4 Westminster Drolleries,' 1671-2, is II. 15s.

MESSRS. MAGGS have issued another large catalogue No. 367, ' First Editions of the Works of Esteemed Authors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries : Association Books and MSS.' Long sections are devoted to Browning (including the first edition of ' Pauline,' 450Z., and some of his wife's MSS., 150Z.), Dickens (first edition of ' Pickwick,' in the monthly parts, 150Z.), and Swinburne (Nos. 1 and 2 of ' Under- graduate Papers,' 150Z.). A complete set of first editions of the Waverley Novels is priced 650Z. ; a collection of first editions of Lever, 240Z. ; and Baskerville's edition of ' Paradise Lost ' and ' Paradise Regain'd,' in elaborately jewelled bindings by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, 210Z. Works by modern poets like Dr. Robert Bridges, Rupert Brooke, John Davidson, Elroy Flecker, Sir Henry Newbolt, and Alfred Noyes may, however, be had for comparatively 'modest sums a few shillings in several cases.

A PBOMINENT feature of MESSES. PABSONS & SONS' Catalogue 282, ' Old Books and Rare- Specimens of Early Bookbindings ' (6d.), is the- supplement devoted to original drawings by William Blake, from the collection of John Linnell, who obtained them direct from the- artist. Five large drawings in pencil for the Book of Enoch are offered for 85 guineas ; and a series of Visionary Heads range from 5 to- 18 guineas. In the opening pages of the Cata- logue are some fine aquatints in colour. The section devoted to Bookbinding (divided into French, Italian, English, and Early Stamped Bookbindings, English and Foreign) has many illustrations ; and there are also some illustrations in the general list.

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MB. JOHN LECKY thanks correspondents for their reply under ' Authors of Quotations Wanted,' ante, p. 174.

F. W. SYMES (Etvmology of " London "). See the articles at 10 S. xi. 302 ; xii. 114, and the authorities there cited.

W. E. J. (" Blighty "). From the Hindustani belati, meaning " foreign," and frequently applied to England and things English. See the articles at 12 S. i. 194, 292.