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 320 NOTES AND QUERIES. [KS.IX.OOT.IMMI. that the University bought two of his presses and that they are still in use at the present day. The account of the growth of the buildings of the press opens up a no less interesting aspect of the development of the University Press. The Pitt Press building the most famous of these, erected out of the surplus of the fund for the statue of Pitt in Hanover Square was begun in 1831 and finished in 1833. The date itself almost suffices to explain the sad work made of a fine opportunity. About that time John Smith was the University printer, and quotations from his ' Observations relating to the Affairs of the Press' (1829), bring before us some of the characteristic difficulties of a university printer struggling with bad copy, sent to be set up without proper preparation, because the writers are busy with pupils, and with the obstruction to the general work of the press caused by examination papers. Never- theless, Parker, Smith's successor, could enume- rate fifty-six different editions of the Bible and the Prayer Book. It is a curious fact that when, about 1838, steam-power was introduced for printing, the Bible Society refused to buy books printed by the steam presses and continued that refusal for years. Another detail worth noting seems to us the choice of the first three theological books to be printed as standard works in order to continue employment for the workmen of the press during slack times. These were : Stillingfleet's ' Conferences and Tracts ' ; Cosin's ' History of the Canon ' and Knight's ' Life of Erasmus.' This story, rich in great and various interest, has been set out by Mr. Roberts somewhat briefly, though his serried pages are so lively and clear that we cannot reasonably quarrel with his brevity. His selection of the ilhis- trations will certainly commend itself to his readers. The four hundredth anniversary of Cambridge printing receives in his work a most appropriate and sufficient commemoration. Journal of the Folk-Song Society. No. 25. Being the Fifth and last Part of vol. vi. MB. A. M. FREEMAN'S collection of songs from Ballyvourney is wound up in this number, which contains thirty airs with their words in Irish, an English translation and careful notes by the collector and Miss Lucy Broadwood. These include, as usual, several interesting legends or folk-stories that of ' The True Lovers' Knot ' has perhaps the greatest poetical interest. The tunes for the most part belong to well-known types. MR. EUGENE F. McPiKE (4450, Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, U.S.A.) writes on the sub- ject of Correspondence Clubs : " There exist many Correspondence Clubs in various countries, including England, France, Holland, Luxemburg, Sweden, Switzerland, &c., which enable their members, when mutually interested in any subject of study or research, to communicate with each other. Such clubs or societies, in each country, are more or less adapted to the national view-point or psychology. " I am seeking information concerning the Cor- respondence Bureau of the Adult School, which is said to be located at Norwich, England. Can any reader favour me with particulars concern- ing, that organization, with special reference to its bearing on the problem of ' extension educa- tion ' ? " A comprehensive list of the directors of ' ex- tension education ' in the United States, under the title of ' Home Study and Self-Education,' was contributed by the present writer to an American periodical in January, 1921, and some reprints are available. There is a tentative proposition to establish in Switzerland an ' International Correspondence Bureau,' to act as a neutral agency or clearing-house for the national clubs or societies." The Publisher of ' N. & Q.' has arranged to re- print the issue of June 5, 1920, and subscribers who are short of this part may obtain copies (ready shortly) at Id. each, pest free. Arrangements are also being made to reprint the issue of April, 1917, which for a long time past has been unobtainable. to CorrEponfcent. EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to " The Editor of ' Notes and Queries ' ' Adver- t ; sements and Business Letters to "The Pub- lishers " at the Office, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4 ; corrected proofs to The Editor, ' N. & Q.,' Printing House Square, London, E.C.4. ALL communications intended for insertion in our columns should bear the name and address of the sender not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. WHEN answering a query, or referring to an article which has already appeared, correspondents are requested to give within parentheses im- mediately after the exact heading the numbers of the series, volume, and page at which the con- tribution in question is to be found. WHEN sending a letter to be forwarded to another contributor correspondents are requested to put in the top left-hand corner of the envelope the number of the page of ' N. & Q.' to which the letter refers. Miss TAIT. 1. (" The kiss of the sun for pardon.") This will be found in a book of poems reviewed by Mr. Algernon Blackwood in Country Life, May 31, 1913. It is by Dorothy Frances Gurney. 2. (" They shall not grow old "), by Mr. Laurence Binyon. Fourth stanza of a poem entitled 'For the Fallen,' which appeared in The Times of Sept. 21, 1915. CORRIGENDA. -- Mr. ARCHIBALD SPARKE writes : " In my reply on ' E. R. Hughes,' at ante, p. 294, the name " Sharparola " as given by Huish in his 'British Water Colour Art' quoted, but it should, of couise, be Straparola, the famous Italian novelist."