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trating Ranelagh Gardens, 1748-1810, 181. 18s. The first edition of Dallaway and Cartwright's ' Sussex,' 3 vols. crimson morocco, the armorial bearings emblazoned in colours, 1816, is 45Z. Boscoe's ' Wanderings ' in North Wales and in South Wales are adorned -with fore-edge paintings, 2 vols. morocco extra, 311. 10s. A set of the Scot- tish History Society's publications, vols. i.-xlv., 1887-1904, is 301. Under Africa will be found Lord Macartney's official manuscript Letter-Book whilst Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, 1797-8 (811. 10s.), and his official Diary or Journal (1251.). The section devoted to the United States covers 25 pp. Under India are accounts of the voyage of the first fleet sent out by the East India Company (London, William Aspley, 1603, 33Z. 10s.) and of the last East Indian voyage (London, Walter Burre, 1606, 221. 10s.). The Australian section is long : two interesting but inexpensive items are Jerningham's (1848, 7s. Qd.) and Waghorn's (1847, 8s. 6d.) pamphlets advo- cating steam communication with that continent.

MESSRS. MAGGS'S third catalogue is dated Christmas, and the long extracts it offers from the letters and manuscripts of notable men and women will provide enjoyment for lovers of history and literature. The place of honour is given to a memento of " the four Napoleons," a folio volume in a jewelled binding, containing many important documents (395L). The autograph manuscript of Shelley's poem ' Prince Athanase,' comprising 41 verses, and bound in morocco extra, is priced at 28ol. There are also extremely interesting letters and poems of the Brownings, Byron, Carlyle, Coleridge, Thomas Hardy, Dr. Johnson, Meredith, Scott, Stevenson, Swinburne, and Tennyson. Among representatives of America may be named Emerson, Wendell Holmes, Longfellow, and J. B. Lowell. Handel and Mendelssohn are prominent among musicians. There are also three autograph poems by Arthur J. Munby, whose initials A. J. M. were familiar^to the readers of ' N. & Q.' for many years.

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LOUIS B. LETTS.

BY the death of Mr. Louis B. Letts of the Phcenix Assurance Company, which took place on Nov. 24 at the early age of 41 as a result of pneumonia following influenza, ' N. & Q.' has lost a constant reader and an occasional contributor. Mr. Letts was particularly interested in ecclesias- tical archaeology and antiquities, and a Londoner by birth was especially well informed in all matters concerning the history and topography of the City. Beaders will remember the illustrated article from his pen which appeared at 12 S. ii. 461 on ' Eighteenth-Century Fires in Cornhill.'

Mr. Letts, though an ardent Londoner, was a lover of the country-side and a great walker. The writer recalls many tramps with him over the Sussex Downs, and elsewhere in Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, rubbing brasses and studying church architecture. He was a cheerful and witty com- panion, and his sanity of outlook, his good- humoured sarcasm, his shrewdness and generou sympathy, will be sadly missed by a large circle of relatives and friends. He leaves a widow and three little boys. M. L.

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CAPT. FIREBRACB (" Gadget "). See ante,

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Lucis (" Say not the struggle naught availeth "). The poem thus entitled is by Arthur Hugh Clough.

V. D. (Cheshire Dialect Proverbs). " Blue as a wimberry " and " As sure as God made little apples " have been recorded. The latter was discussed at 11 S. iv. 289, 377.

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CAPT. W. W. CADDBLL (Paragraph Mark in the Bible). The ' New English Diet.,' s.v. Paragraph, says : " A symbol or character. . . .formerly used to mark the commencement of a new section or part of a narrative or discourse .... Its original use is common in Middle English MSS. (where the form is often a red or blue. . . .). It was retained by the early printers, and remains in the Bible of 1611 (but only as far as Acts xx.), no doubt because every verse begins a new line, so that the method of indicating a paragraph by ' indenting ' (as done by Tindale, Coverdale, and the Bevisers of 1881-5) was not available."

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