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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. xn. OCT. 17, 1903.

Messrs. Maggs catalogue MSS., autograph letters &c. Royal signatures include those of Henry yil. Henry VIII., Charles 1., Queen Mary, Henriett Maria, an autograph letter signed addressed t " Monsieur mon frere, Monsieur le due de Savoie, with original seals and silks unbroken, price 221. 10s There are a collection of MSS. of Sir Walter Besant some interesting letters of William Blake, a lette from Byron to Murray (his publisher) concerning 'The Curse of Minerva,' a series of thirty-thre letters of Thomas Campbell, many characteristi letters of Coleridge, and others from George Eliot In a very large collection are found autographs o Blackstone, Bradshaw (the regicide), the Brontes Browning, Burke, Burns, Carlyle, Cromwell, Fene Ion, Fielding, Franklin, Hazlitt, Swinburne, Tenny son, Rossetti, R. L. Stevenson, Kean, Nelson Ruskin, Mrs. Jordan, Wordsworth, Madame de Maintenon, Mary Beatrix d'Este, Metastasio, Simoi Fraser (Lord Lovat), Macaulay, Knox, Kipling Holnian Hunt, Mrs. Hemans, Helvetius, Grimaldi and Sir W. Hamilton.

Messrs. Henry Young & Sons issue one more attrac tive catalogue from Liverpool. Among its gems are Dumas's ' Critical Biographies of Modern Artists, priced 121. 12.s. ; a ballad of ' John Bon and Mast Person ' on vellum ; several Bewicks ; Viellot's 4 Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux ' ; Billings's l Cathe- drals '; a collection of Civil War tracts; 'The Nuremberg Chronicle,' second edition ; Fielding's ' Tom Jones,' first edition ; Halstead's ' Succinct Genealogies' (36/.), very rare; Jeremy Taylor's ' Whole Works '; Stothard's ' Monumental Effigies '; Grimm's 'Specimens of Ornamental Art.' Under Early Printed Works, Lancashire, Military, Naval, Hamerton, Heraldry, &c., the reader will find much of importance. At the end are mentioned some engraved portraits of great value and interest.

Mr. Walter T. Spencer has Ackermann's ' Repo- sitory,' most of the plates coloured ; Ainsworth's Repository ; a series of Australian maps, priced 25^. ; Bunyan's ' Works,' 1(592 ; many books of coloured plates: a large series of Cruikshank publications; one still larger of Dickens. Mr. Spencer lays him- self out specially for the works of Thackeray, Browning, Leech, Albert Smith, and the writers generally of the last century, and under such headings matter of abundant interest is always to be found. Mayne Reid's ' Works,' 37/. ; Sterne, an uncut first edition of ' The Sermons ' ; and a Second Folio Shakespeare, wanting title, seem to call for mention.
 * Jack Sheppard,' presentation copy; ' The Artists'

Mr. Clegg, of Rochdale, catalogues Cobbett's ' Political Register,' some works on book-plates, &c. and many works on Lancashire.

Mr. Charles Higham's stock-revision catalogue is mostly theology : 27 vols. in 25 of the ' Bibliotheca Maxima ' of the Church fathers ; an ' Opera Omnia ' of Chrysostom, 1834 ; 4 The Chronicle of Coronation Books of Common Prayer,' of various dates ; some of Dean Hook's ecclesiastical lives; Cornelius h Lapide ; and sets of books such as " The Speaker's Commentary," the Homilist, "The Foreign Theo- logical Library," &c.

Mr. Harvey, of Manchester Street, Brighton, has a catalogue of first editions of novels bv Trollonp George Eliot, Whyte Melville, Blackmore, and others.

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WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately.

C. A. ("Ships that pass in the night"). Long- fellow's ' Tales of a Wayside Inn,' ' The Theologian's Story,' 'Elizabeth,' part iv. But see * N. & Q ' 8 th S. viii. 206.

C. BURGE. " La vie est breve," &c., is by L. Montenacken, a Belgian poet.

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