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MR. JOHN GRANT of Edinburgh sends an important Catalogue of Oriental Books and Journals, mainly from the library of Dr. James Burgess, who was for seventeen years Surveyor and Director of the Archaeological Survey of India. This official position enabled him to bring together a unique collection of the various series of Reports and Memoirs issued under the authority of the Archaeological Survey, and relating to Ceylon as well as the different provinces of India. The list of contents of the collection occupies two of the large pages of Mr. Grant's Catalogue, the whole being offered for 1301. Duplicate copies of many of the Reports can be bought separately at prices ranging from 3s. for Mr. Henry Cousens's ' Account of the Caves at Nadsur and Karsambla ' to 21. 18s. 6d. for Dr. Burgess's ' Buddhist Stupas of Amaravati and Jaggayyapeta,' in half morocco. Another feature of the Catalogue consists in the number of sets of Journals and Proceedings of learned bodies such as the Asiatic Societies of Great Britain, -Bengal, Bombay, Ceylon, China, and Japan ; the American Oriental Society, the Hellenic Society and the Ecole Francaise d'Athenes, the Mus^e Guimet, the Vienna Oriental Institute, and the Berliner Gesellschaft fur Anthropologie. In the body of the Catalogue are numerous gazetteers, dictionaries, and grammars. Lovers of painting, architecture, and sculpture are provided with a rich feast, such as the collections of photographs of the Ajanta caves (21, 5s. and 21. 2s. respectively) ; Sir Alexander Cunningham's ' Bhilsa Topes ' (33 plates, U. 13s. 6(2.), ' Mahabodhi, or the Great Buddhist Temple under the Bodhi Tree at Buddha-Gaya ' (31 plates, 41. 7s. 6d.), and ' The Stupa of Bharhut ' (57 plates, 21. 12s. 6d.) ; James Fer- gusson's ' Illustrations of the Rock-cut Temples of India ' (19 tinted lithographs, 2 vols., 11. 15s.) and ' Picturesque Illustrations of Ancient Archi- tecture in Hindostan ' (24 tinted lithographs, 21. 2s.) ; John Grifftths's ' Paintings in the Buddhist Cave-Temples of Ajanta ' (159 plates, 2 vols., privately printed, 111.) ; ' Jeypore Port- folios of Architectural Details ' (1,273 designs in 10 portfolios, 127.) ; or the works entered under Dr. Rajendralala Mitra's name. As the rare surname Henchman is illustrated by a pedigree in the present number of ' N. & Q.' (ante, p. 24), it is worth recording that Thomas Henchman's ' Observations on the Reports of the Directors of the E.I. Company,' 1801, may be had from Mr. Grant for 8s. 6d.

E[EER MARTTNUS NIJHOFP sends from the Hague two Catalogues No. 428, general works and No. 429. ' L-i Reforrne et le Protestantisme dans les Pays-Bas jusqu'a 1'annee 1600 (> compris les Pr^curseurs de la Reiorme).' The first 13 entries in the former are " pieces historiques du seizieme siecle," and, as they are rarities, the titles are set out in full. One of them, printed in 1501, gives an account (in Dutch) of the coronation of Charles IX. a_t Reims in that year (50 fl.). Under Am^rique is E. Gagnon's ' Chan- v.ons popnlaires du Canada,' with the melodies, 3rd ed., Quebec, 1894 (6 fl.). Under Chansons are two other collections 300 popular songs, &c., relating to Waterloo (60 fl.), and 20 patriotic and satirical songs, &c., relating to the war with Belgium in 1830 (35 fl.). A work that has a melancholy interest at the present time is

W. H. J. Weale's ' Les eglises du doyenne de- Dixmude,' 2 parts, documents only, Bruges, 1873-4 (15 fl.). Two English poets figure in the Catalogue Dryden, ' Amboyna.' London, 1673 .35 fl.). and Tennyson, ' Idyls of the King,' first American edition, with variations from the English edition, Boston, 1859 (50 fl.).

Catalogue 429 contains nearly a thousand intries, mostly of books in Dutch, as is natural. [t is not confined to early works, but includes recent productions containing information relating -jQ the period and persons dealt with. Several of ihe entries are noted as from the Huth library ; and others are works relating to the refugees in England, such as W. J. C. Moens's ' Marriage Registers of the Dutch Reformed Church, Austin Friars,' Lymington, 1884 (15 fl.) ; J. H. Hessels's 'Registerof the Attestations of Membership,' &c. ? in the same church, 1892 (35 fl.) ; and J. S. Burn's ' History of the French, Walloon, Dutch, and other Foreign Protestant Refugees,' 1846 (10 fl.). Interest of a different kind attaches to * De Psalm en Dauidis inNederland. Sangs-ryme door Ian Wtenhoue van Ghentt,' printed in London " by Jan Daye, den 12 Sept. 1566." Bound with this is Marten Micron's ' De kleyne catechismus,' printed in the same year for the Dutch Church in London. Both works are very rare, their price bsing 350 fl.

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COL. H. SOUTHAM (Earliest Use of " Jingo "). The Oxford Dictionary cites G. J. Holyoake in The Daily News of March 13, 1878, as "the first to use the word " Jingo " as a political nickname ; but the extracts given show that he only adopted the word from the music-hall song then popular. The Dictionary traces the history of the word back to John Eachard's ' Grounds and Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy,' 1670, p. 34 : " He. . . .falls a flinging it out of one hand into the other, tossing it this way and that ; lets it run a little upon the line, then tanutus, high jingo, come again I " The quotation from Oldham's ' Satires upon the Jesuits,' 1679, to which you refer, is the third example supplied by the Dictionary.

J. T. R. F. (Stones' End, Borough). Much information on the subject will be found at 11 S. v. 289, 396, 515 ; vi. 231.

JAS. CCRTTS (" Imp " of Lincoln Cathedral). See under ' Devil : Lincoln,' 8 S. ii. 128, 210.

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS (Chimney-Sweeper's Climbing Boys). See the articles at 12 S. iii. 347, 462 ; and ante, p. 28.