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in the British Museum, to late sculpture of the Danish period in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Few churches are so rich in fine and varied ex- amples of this remote period as Lancaster is now." The archaeological notes include 'A Sun Image found in Denmark,' ' A Triple Pot from Peru symbolizing the Trinity,' * The Dog Whip in Baslow Church, Derbyshire' (this is still to be seen, and it appears that the dog-whipper's pew remained in Youlgreave Church, in Derbyshire, so late as 1868), and 'Discovery of an Ancient Barrow in Tod- morden, in the County of York.'

A BRILLIANT number of the Burlington Magazine has for frontispiece a splendid reproduction of a portrait by Franz Hals in the gallery of Lord Spencer. 'Chinese Painting of the Twelfth Cen- tury ' is illustrated from a rich American collection. A series of paintings of the deeds, death, and apo- theosis of St. Francis is accompanied by letterpress by Mr. Bernhard Berenson, whose collection sup- plies the picture of the saint in glory. Mr. Ralph jS"evill's account of Jean Honore Fragonard is illus- trated by three designs of that great painter, including the famous ' Escarpolette ' from the Wallace collection, which is successfully repro- duced. There are, in addition, in the number many specimens of English drinking -glasses, of pewter vessels, and other things of high artistic and antiquarian interest.

IT is eminently satisfactory to know that that fine work 4 The English Dialect Dictionary ' is now complete. The closing volume has yet to be issued, but the last page is in print and is under our eye. What remains to be done is to publish ' The Dialect Grammar,' on which the editor, Dr. Joseph Wright, is engaged. In this he seeks such aid from collaborators as, we feel sure, will be gladly yielded him. A vast amount of material is already accumulated, but further information is required, especially as regards the Midland and Southern counties. It is as regards dialectal pronunciation that aid is specially sought. Those willing to assist should communicate with Prof. J. Wright, Lang- dale House, Park Town, Oxford, or care of the Clarendon Press, when they will receive slips for communication, specimen pages, word lists, a pho- netic alphabet, and other full explanations. Each qualified assistant in this great task will be pre- sented with a bound copy of the ' Grammar,' which will be issued in 1905, and will bring to a close labours the full value and significance of which scholars alone can estimate.

THE Cambridge University Press promises an interesting series of reprints to be called "The Cambridge English Classics." The early volumes of this will comprise a very handsome edition of Earle's ' Microcosmographie,' Hobbes's ' Leviathan,' and Crashaw's 'Poems.' These will be edited by competent scholars, and the series will be in all respects handsome and representative. The next volume of " The Cambridge Modern History" will be the second, ' The Reformation.'

MR. WALTER RYE has reprinted a communica- tion sent a few months ago to the local press con- cerning vandalism at Norwich. The offenders are the Dean and Chapter, a body presumably as little open as other corporations to castigation, physical or- moral.

THE Rev. W. C. Boulter, 28, Queen's Road, Bays- water, W., having some spare copies of printed sheet-pedigrees of Sykes of Doncaster and Skikel- thorpe of Southgate, will gladly give them to applicants sending name, address, and stamp.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MR. ALBERT SUTTON, of Manchester, issues a catalogue illustrative of the designs of the artists of the [18] " sixties," Madox Brown, Arthur Hughes, Lord Leighton, Sir J. E. Millais, D. G. Rossetti, harles Keene, George Du Maurier, J. McNeill Whistler, Frederick Walker, Frederick Sandys, &c. These are said to touch the high-water mark, and, though once a drug in the market, are now springing into high favour. They will in time, says Gleeson White, be prized as rightly as Bible woodcuts, 'The Dance of Death,' or the 'Liber Studiorum.' Illustrations to Tennyson, the Corn- hill, Once a Week, ' The Arabian Nights,' Robert Buchanan, &c., are included, as are the 'English Landscapes ' of Birket Foster, Linton's ' Masters of Wood Engraving' (a generation later in date of publication), and many periodicals. The same bookseller, in a general catalogue, offers seventy-five volumes of Notes and Queries with the first three index volumes for 181. 18s. The set seems to merit making up, since the three index volumes are almost worth the money. A set of the Transactions, &c., of the Manchester Literary Club from the beginning in 1875 to 1900, has more than mere local interest, Other sets are of Punch, the Palestine Exploration Fund. l The Palatine Note-Book,' by J. E. Bailey, the Studio, &c. Other attractive eptries are Wheatley's ' Pepys's Diary ' and Fielding's ' Works.' ' America ' and ' Lancashire ' may also be consulted. Mr. Thomas Thorne, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, prices at 121. a 1598 Chaucer's * Works ' ; Bullen's series of ' Elizabethan Song-Books,' 7 vols., at 101. 10s. ; Chaffers's ' Keramic Guide,' 1872, at IQl. ; and Pickering's fine series of reprints of the Book of Common Prayer, 7 vols., folio, uncut, vellum, IQl. 10s. The same price is demanded for Free- man's ' History of the Norman Conquest,' 6 vols. ; 81. 8s. for the life and work of Charles Kingsley, Edition de luxe, and 121. 10s. each for the ' Dulwich Gallery,' the plates mounted on tinted cardboard, and Meyer's 'British Birds and their Eggs,' announced as the best edition of the only complete 'History of British Birds and their Eggs.' The Harleian Society Publications, vols. i.-xxvii., are priced 251, and a long set of the quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society, 201. ; Engleheart's ' Minia- tures,' ten additional illustrations, just printed, but now scarce, is 181. 18s. ; and Propert's ' Minia- tures,' 221. 10s. A complete set, 1851 to 1898, of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scot- land, is 151. ; the Numismatic Journal and Chro- nicle, wanting 3 vols., 181. 10s. ; and large-paper Symonds's 'Benvenuto Cellini,' and Sowerby's 'English Botany,' are attractive items. In a subsequent portion of the catalogue may be found a Baskerville's * Addison,' with plates ; Matthew Arnold's ' Friendship's Garland,' first edition ; the Vinegar Bible ; Baskerville's Bible, 1763 ; Seebohm's various works on Birds and their Eggs, &c, ; Ferguson's 'British Essayists,' Dasent's works, a cheap Genest's 'Account of the Stage.' Under customary headings, such as Dickens, Byron, Ruskin, Rossetti, Sporting, Heraldry, are entered many desirable works.