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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

MESSRS. HIGHAM & SON'S Catalogue 550 contains over 1,400 entries, the longest section being that devoted to the Life of Christ upon Earth (245 entries). Other sections relate to the Thirty-Nine Articles ; Baptism ; Boys' and Girls' Sermons and Addresses ; Creeds ; Future Life ; London ; Music ; Palestine Life, Travel, and Exploration ; Plymouth Brethren ; Psychology ; Quakers ; Sabbath ; S_atan ; Sin ; Slavery ; Social Questions ; Systematic Theology ; John Wesley and Wesleyanism ; and Young Men and Women. Many of the items may be had for Is. or Is. Qd. each.

MESSRS. H. R. HILL & SON describe their Catalogue 130 as ' A Rough List of Interesting Second -Hand Books, many in Handsome Bind- ings.' One of these is Angas's ' South Australia Illustrated,' 60 coloured plates, folio, dark-blue morocco, 12Z. 12s. Baring-Gould's ' Lives of the Saints,' revised edition, 16 vols., 1914, is offered for 21. 7s. 6d. ; and O'Hanlon's ' Lives of the Irish Saints.' vols. i.-ix., and 4 parts of vol. x., for 5?. 5s. L'Estrange's ' Church Bells of Norfolk,' illustrated, 1874, is 8s. 6d. The ' Collectanea ' of Vincent Stuckey Lean, a former contributor to ' N. & Q.,' 5 vols., 1902-4, published at 51. 5s., may now be had for II. 15s. There are lists under London and Shakespeare, the former including Hilton Price's ' Signs of Old Lombard Street ' (9s.6d.) and Martin's "The Grasshopper in Lombard Street ' (7s. Qd.), and the latter a complete set of the Shakespeare Society publications, 49 vols. in 19, 1841-53, 151. 10s. A fine copy of Dibdin's ' Bibliographical Decameron,' 3 vols., full brown morocco, 1817, is 101. 10s., and his ' Typographical Antiquities,' 4 vols., half red morocco by Bedford, 1810, also 10Z. 10s. ; while Sotheby's ' Principia Typographia,' 3 vols., half morocco, 1858, is 81. 8s. Dr. G. C. Williamson's edition of Boyne's ' Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century,' 2 vols., 1889, is 31. 12s. 6d.

MR. JAMES MILES of Leeds has over 1,000 entries in his Catalogue 208. It is strong in local history, entered under the names of the towns or villages described, and is virtually a double catalogue, one list of ' Yorkshire Topography ' extending from No. 410 to No. 449, and another, headed ' Yorkshire,' running from 921 to 1031, the last number covering many of the Surtees Society publications, offered separately at prices ranging from Is. 6d. to 11. 10s. In the earlier portion of the Catalogue are several of the Harleian Society publications. As illustrating subjects recently discussed in ' N. & Q.' we may name the first edition of the Rev. H. F. Lyte's ' Poems, chiefly Religious,' 1833, 4s. 6d. (see ante, p. 83), and Drake's ' History of English Glass-Painting,' 36 plates, folio, 11. 12s.

The treasures in MESSRS. MYERS & Co.'s ' Illustrated Catalogue of Rare Books ' (No. 218) can be possessed by those only who have well- fill"d pockets, but the Catalogue contains many interesting notes and numerous facsimiles which will be enjoyed by those who cannot hope to handle the volumes described. The special feature of the Catalogue is a copy of the famous fifteenth-century block-book, ' Apocalypsis Sancti Johannis,' black-letter, from the C. Fairfax

Murray library, for which 1,750Z. is asked. There are also illuminated manuscripts with miniatures, and others with Chinese and emblematic drawings. There is in addition much to attract lovers of literature and the stage, including an autograph letter from William Wilson (one of Shakespeare's company at the Fortune Theatre) " to my most dear and especiall good friend Mr. Edward Alleyn at Dulwich " (151.) ; and the first folio edition of ' The Faerie Queene,' 1609, to which ' The Shepheard's Calendar,' 1611, has been added (20L)~ From the collection of the late Mr. A. M. Broadley come several fine extra-illustrated works, such as Moore's ' Letters and Journals of Lord Byron,' extended to 6 vols., red morocco (250Z.); the Life of Crabbe, extended to 8 vols.. half levant morocco (185Z.) ; Vizetelly's ' True Story of the Chevalier D'Eon,' extended to 7 folio vols., half blue morocco (3001.) ; Percy Fitzgerald's ' Life of Garrick/ extended to 17 vols. J ha If citron morocco (275'. ) ; and Moore's ' Sheridan,' enlarged to 4 vols., full maroon morocco (105J.).

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COL. HERSCHEL (" Cd."). A Parliamentary paper printed by " command."

CAPT. GAUSSEN (" Tria juncto in uno "). See under ' K.C.B. : its Three Crowns,' 12 S. iii. 487 ; and ante, p. 82.

H. S. B. (Hara-kiri). A Japanese word fop " suicide," often rendered by Englishmen as " happy dispatch."

M. W. (St. Simeon Stylites). He was born in Northern Syria in 390, and died in 459. The account of him in ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica ' refers for fuller information to ' The Dictionary of Christian Biography.'

E. S. DODGSON (Twilight. Sleep). This phrase forms part of the title of Mrs. Hanna Rion's ' Painless Childbirth in Twilight Sleep,' reviewed' in The Athenceum of April 24, 1915. The first paragraph of the notice explains the meaning and: origin of the torm.