Page:Notes and Queries - Series 9 - Volume 12.djvu/467

 9* s. XIL DEC. 5, 1903.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

459

efforts to govern, but rather of organized govern- ment which broke down for short periods in par- ticular localities." So Freeman has come by his own again a gratifying fact in view of the acri- monious attack on him published just after his decease. Mr. R. G. Usher subjects Coke's report of the famous interview between the great lawyer and the king to a careful analysis, with the net result that the "finely turned English phrases are not Coke's, but the work of some one else." As a piece 'of "higher criticism" the article is most valuable, and its reasoning appears to us convincing. In the ' Notes and Documents ' there are a few unpublished letters of Napoleon, of no particular interest, contributed by Mr. Fisher ; a valuable note by Mr. Philip Sidney on the Neapolitan Stuarts ; and a collection of most interesting letters of Col. William Napier, by Prof. Moore Smith. Of the reviews the most interesting is that by the Master of Peterhouse on Mr. Fisher's 'Studies in Napoleonic Statesmanship.'

WE learn .with much regret of the demise of Mr. Julian Marshall, a personal friend and a toler- ably frequent contributor to ' N. & Q.' His death followed several operations for internal disease. Mr. Marshall, who was in his sixty-eighth year, was an authority on tennis and on games generally. He had considerable knowledge of music (being a contributor to Grove's ' Dictionary of Music ') and of art generally, and was an assiduous collector of books, engravings, and book-plates. The arrange- ment of his fine collection of book-plates was a chief solace of his later days. His special know- ledge was employed by Dr. Murray in the * N.E.D.' He was indeed a man of remarkable and very varied attainments and of fine taste and judgment- The youngest son of John Marshall, jun., of Headingley (Leeds) and Keswick, he was one of that family of Marshalls who owned the principal lakes in Cumberland and Westmoreland, and was allied to the famous Prof. Whewell, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Spring Rice, afterwards Lord Monteagle.

MESSRS. E. E. SPEIGHT & R. H. WALPOLE, of Teignmouth, promise yet another series of books intended for connoisseurs and bibliophiles, to be issued in limited editions and in sumptuous form. Among works which they announce for immediate publication are Richard Jobson's ' The Golden Trade,' 1623, and Coryat's ' Crudities,' 1612, works of extreme rarity and abundant interest, which fetch long prices in the sale-room. It is as yet too early to speak of the execution, but the scheme is full of promise and is likely to find support in America as well as here.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. IN the latest catalogue of Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co. the first book to arrest the collector's atten- tion is ' The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor in Angling, Fowling,' c., of G[ervase] Mlarkham], a book so rare that only one perfect copy, according to the ' Bibliotheca Piscatoria, is known. ' The True Art of Angling/ by J. S., Gent., a Brother of the Angle, 1696, is of near the same date, and almost equally precious. Of Walton and Cotton's 'Complete Angler' the scarcest edition catalogued is that of 1760. A large-paper copy of Arber's ' English Reprints ' follows, and is succeeded

by a very cheap copy of Bailey's ' Festus,' first edition. A ' Collection of Printed Title - Pages,' 2 vols., 251. , carries us back to a period of horrible ravage in books. A collection of Burton's ' Travels,' 46 vols., chiefly first editions, is priced 37?. 10*. Chappell's ' Ballad Literature ' follows. An ' Ori- ginal Deed of Trust ' of Sheridan, assigning to William Adam certain property in Drury Lane Theatre, is priced 52?. 10s. It should be in public hands. Under Drama are two striking moralities. It is curious to find under Alexandre Dumas fils, not pere, a registry of the Compagnie des Mousque- taires. A ' Graduate Romanum,' on vellum, from the Plantin press, is priced 551. A collection of the Folk-lore Society's Publications and one of Froude's- wprks arrest attention. The " Fuller Worthies Library," large paper, 39 vols., and Grosart's " Occa- sional Issues" are now rarely encountered. The Harleian Society's Publications, 52 vols., are 35?. Papworth's ' Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms' is scarce and precious. Morris's Herrick selection, printed with " Golden " type, leads off a- list of Kelmscott Press productions, in which we note Mr. Mackail's ' Biblia Innocentium.' Clutter- buck's 'Hertfordshire' is 27?. 10-5. Mommsen is classified as Anglophobe, which before death he had ceased to be. An extra-illustrated Pepys is the 1875-9 edition. A collection of Parliamentary speeches is priced 95?. First editions of Spenser's ' Teares of the Muses ' and ' Mother Hubberd's Tale' seem cheap at 15?. A series of Scottish family books supply an opportunity to collectors of such not often afforded. A Third Folio Shake- speare, title inlaid, is 175?. Halliwell-Phillipps's great edition is 94?. 10s., and a Collier's edition,, with an autograph dedication to his adopted- daughter, is 521. 10-9. A ' Mirour for Magistrates ' is the last edition, 1619 (that of 1610 with a new title-page). Alken's sporting books are very high priced. A collection of Sterne's works, 1760-75, is in 22 vols. A Swinburne collection, in 31 vols., is 181. IBs. Hoare's ' Wiltshire,' presentation copy, is 100?. At the close are some valuable art works.

Messrs. Maggs issue a collection of choice en- gravings, including theatrical portraits : Bannister and Parsons, after De Wilde; Burke, by Jones after Romney, 251. ; Viscountess Bulkeley, by Bar- tolozzi after Cos way, 11?. Us. ; Clive, by Bartolozzi after Dance, 15?. 15s. ; Cruikshank, by himself ;. Charlotte Fish, by Watson after Sir Joshua; Nell Gwynne, by Val. Green after Lely ; Lady Hamilton, after Romney, 23?. 10*. ; Mrs. Hoppner by C. Knight after Hoppner, 12?. 12s. ; Miss Ingram as Ariadne, after Sir Joshua, 25?. ; Kean as Richard III., 7?. 7s. : George Morland, by Ward after Muller, 12?. 12s. ; Napoleon I., after Gerard, 67. 6s. ; Sir Hyde Parker, after Romney, 10?. 10s. ; Mrs. Sheri- dan as St. Cecilia, after Sir Joshua, 15?. 15s. ; Prince James Stuart, the first Pretender ; a series of Barto- lozzis ; Robin Hood and Clorinda, by Blake ; Elvira,, after A. Buck ; and Lesbia and her Bird, by Sir J. Reynolds. There are also a few old masters, some modern etchings, and original drawings by Burne- Jones, Blake, Thackeray, and others.

Mr. Charles Higham's list gives books from the library of the late Dean Milman, and includes a selection of Catholic and Patristic literature. Among the items are a complete set of the Ecclesiologitt ; Dean Hook's ' Lives of the Archbishops of Canter- bury ' ; the ' Roman Breviary,' translated into English by the Marquis of Bute (this is scarce