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wrote a memoir concerning this journey as well as Boswell. Mr. Roberts has been hampered by the exigencies of war in preparing his book, but he is well equipped in all essentials.

His ' Bibliographical Note ' at the end is really useful. Johnson's Collected Works, as he says, are easily obtainable secondhand, and, we may add, at a very moderate price. Macaulay's and Carlyle's essays must, we suppose, be mentioned, but neither of them is first-rate. Besides Sir Leslie Stephen's volume in the " English Mon of Letters," there is an excellent paper in his ' Hours in a Library ' ; and the University Press itself has published in Jebb's ' Essays and Addresses ' a delightful paper on Johnson. We rather wish that, when he was mentioning the house in Gough Square, Mr. Roberts had added that it has been well repaired, and is now a Johnson Museum full of interesting things. Mr. W. P. Courtney's ' Johnson Bibliography,' 1915, is authoritative, and a very thoroiigh piece of work which every student should know.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.

MR. P. M. BARNARD sends from Tunbridge Wells two catalogues, 117 and 118. The former contains tracts, broadsides, proclamations, &c., and its 79U entries afford many side-lights upon English history, beginning with Anthony Rush's ' A President for a Prince,' 1566 (12*. (3d.), and ending with a form of prayer and thanksgiving for Nelson's victory at Trafalgar (5s. 6(/.). The fluctu- ations of the struggle between Charles I. and the Parliament, the restoration of Charles II., the Popish Plot, and the murder of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey receive many illustrations, along with topics of such present-day interest as the regulation of the price of coal and the production of butter. Highway robberies are also much in evidence, while on the other side is Henry Fielding s ' Enquiry into the Causes of the late Increase of Robbers, &c., with some proposals for remedying this Growing Evil,' first edition, 1751 (12*. Qd.).

Catalogue 118 is devoted to 'Rare and Interest- ing Books and Autographs.' The comments on the second entry, ' Historia Alexandri magni regis macedonie de preliis,' printed Nov. 16, 1490(8Z.)i probably in Southern France, form a good illustra- tion of Mr. Barnard's knowledge of early typo- graphy. The notes on the pattern of the original binding of a copy of ' Eikon Basilike.' 1R48, recently belonging to H. B. Wheatley (121. 12s.), also show keen observation. Thomas Hearne's copy of Boece's ' Hystory and Croniklis of Scot- land,' folio, 1536, is 40Z. Under Milton is ' Parlia-

menti Anglia3 Declaratio Mensis Martii 22,

Anno 1648 [1649],' with an English translation published the same day (10Z.). Mr. Barnard makes the suggestion that the Latin is the original, and is the work of Milton. In the section 'Auto- graphs and Documents' are a collection of 100 autograph letters of nineteenth-century artists (15Z.) and a document signed and sealed by the Bastard of Orleans, Aug. 27, 1438 (251.).

MR. J. S. BILLINGHAM. of Marefair, Northamp- ton, includes in his Catalogue 94 Billings's ' Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scot- land,' 4 vols. 4to, calf gilt, 1846-52, 31. 3s. ; Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1893, 61. 6s. ;
 * The Order of Chivalry,' 4to, vellum, printed by

and ' The Bookworm,' 7 vols., wrappers, 1887-93 15s. 6d. Among topographical works are R. W Proctor's ' Memorials of Bygone Manchester, 1880, and ' Memorials of Manchester Stieets, 3 874, 5,?. 6d. each ; Cruden's ' History of Graves end,' 1843, 8s. 6d. : Park's 'Topography o Hampstead,' 4to, 1F14, 21. ; and Barnes'; ' Records of Hampstead,' 1890, la. Qd.

MR. E. BRIGGS, of Lawrence Avenue, Mano Park, E.12, sends a four-page Trade List of Books Among the works he offers are Bewick's ' Histor of British Birds,' 8vo, 2 vols., 1805, II. 10s. Jakobsen's ' Dialect and Place Names of Shetland 1897, 2s. 6d. ; and a folio Bible in Dutch, with th Apocrypha, black-letter, Leyden, 1637, 51.

MR. D. W. EDWARDS, of Bishop Lane Staithe Hull, sends his Rough Catalogue of Second-Ham Books, no. 17. This includes a number of chap books, local pamphlets, and works relating t Hull and York. The prices are very modesl many of the pieces catalogued being only ; shilling or eighteenpence.

MESSRS. GT,AISHER'S May Catalogue (435 contains Publishers' Remainders. Thus Mari Corelli's 'Free Opinions Freely Expressed ''ma now be had for 2s. 3d., and a memoir of Ouida illustrated with 12 plates, for 3s. 9d. Othe biographies are Ryan's ' Queen Jeanne c Navarre ' (5s. 6d.) ; Violette Montagu's ' Eugen de Beauharnais : the Adopted Son of Napoleon (3s. Qd.), and two works by the Count de Soisson ' The Seven Richest Heiresses of France ' (3s, and ' Six Great Princesses ' (4s.). All ar liberally illustrated.

MR. G. A. POYNDER of Reading devotes hi Spring Catalogue (77) to Miscellaneous Books including a number of first editions of moder authors. Among the general books may t named the 'Keepsake' for 1834 (5s.) and tha for 1835 (4s. 6d.) ; Pearson's ' Banbury Chaj books and Nursery Toybook Literature of th Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries with impressions of several hundred woodblocl by Bewick, Blake, and Cruikshank (17s. 6d.) and Straus's life of Robert Dodsley the publish< (6s.). Grose's ' Antiquities of England and Wales with the supplement for Scotland, togeth< 6 vols. folio, 1775-89, is 3Z. 10s. ; and Lysons ' Magna Britannia,' 6 vols. quarto, half russi 4Z. 4s. There are several works under Heraldry

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