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junction with Southey. It is well known that this drama was produced in one evening, Coleridge, Southey and Lovell each writing one act. Coleridge took the manuscript with him to Cambridge, and there re-wrote part of the drama, and published it under his own name. Southey wrote, "It was written with newspapers before me as fast as news- papers could be put into blank verse. I have no desire to claim it now, neither am I ashamed of it." Six pages of the catalogue are devoted to uncommon pamphlets of the Old and Young Pretenders.

We have also received from Messrs. Maggs Bros, their Catalogue No. 383, containing Engraved Portraits. Decorative Prints, Sporting Prints, Etchings, Engravings by the Old Masters, and Historical and Topographical Engravings. Fine prints (302 in number) are catalogued with 34 fine reproductions of the most interesting engravings. Our readers may consider the first part, which contains engraved portraits principally of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to be the most interesting. A charming print is VVat- son's mezzotint of the Three Irish Graces in a brilliant impression of the first state, printed in a rich brown tone before the title was added. A brilliant open-letter proof-impression of the Duchess of Devonshire after Gainsborough by Barney is very pretty, though some may be inclined tn prefer the stipple in colours of Lady Elizabeth Foster after Sir Joshua Reynolds. Other charming ladies are Lady Kent, Lady Sofia Paget by Meyer after Hoppner, and Mrs. Siddons BIS the Tragic Muse. We also notice some delicate Morlands, and two fine Swiss prints in colours by Freudenberger. Some excellent Wheatleys in colours are all pleasant prints which one would like to keep on one's walls. Among the Diirers the Saint Eustace, of which a good representation is given, will pro- bably be preferred.

MR. G. A. POYNDER has sent us his last Catalogue of Secondhand Books, and we understand he will shortly be publishing another. Copies may be had on application to him at 4 Broad Street, Reading.

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EDWARD SMITH.

WE regret to announce the death of Mr. Edward Smith, which took place in a nursing home at Whitstable on the 13th inst, in his 81st year. He was a man of many-sided literary activities. His ' Life of William Cobbett,' published so long ago as 1878, is still one of the standard biographies of that interesting personality ; it is excelled by his last work, issued in 1911, the ' Life of Sir Joseph Banks,' the 18th-century President of the Royal Society But perhaps his most useful work is one that still remains in three volumes of manuscript, viz., an Index Locorum to Birch's ' Cartularium Saxonicum.' This is not merely a bald list of the place-names occurring in that invaluable collection of charters of the Anglo-Saxon period : it contains numerous identifications, many worked out for the first time, of the ancient forms with the modern names. For a long time he was a fairlv frequent contributor to ' N. & Q.' on topographical and bibliographical matters.

The Proprietor is obliged to warn his reac that other arrangements for 'N. & Q.' probably have to be made. He has him been doing the duties from errand-boy Editor without salary, and cannot conti under such conditions.

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Letters forwarded to G. F. R. B., MR. JOHN WAINEWRIGHT, and MR. W. R. WILLIAMS.

MR. C. E. STKATTOK, Boston, Mass, (" Emersr 'EnglishTraits ' "). Anticipated at ante, p. 302

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