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but judging from other foundations, if there were any such arms, they would probably consist of the armorial bearings of Clare (Or, three chevronels gu.) surmounted by the pastoral staff. CHEVRON.

EDITION (9 th S. ii. 265). The Publishers' Association in December last issued a re- port of the Committee on Title-pages, which unanimously agreed to the following recom- mendations. To some extent they are being acted upon, but not with that unanimity which is desirable :

(a) That the title-page of every book should bear the date of the year of publication, i. e., of the year in which the impression, or the reissue, of which it forms a part, was first put on the market.

(b) That when stock is reissued in a new form, the title-page should bear the date of the new issue, and each copy should be described as a " reissue," either on the title-page or in a biblio- graphical note.

(c) That the date at which a book was last revised should be indicated either on the title-page or in a bibliographical note.

(2) Bibliographical Note.

That the bibliographical note should, when pos- sible, be printed on the back of the title-page, in order that it may not be separated therefrom in binding.

(3) Impression, Edition, Reissue.

That for bibliographical purposes definite mean- ings should be attached to these words when used on a title-page, and the following are recommended:

Impression. A number of copies printed at any one time. When a book is reprinted without change it should be called a new impression, to distinguish it from an edition as defined below.

Edition. An impression in which the matter has undergone some change, or for which the type has been reset.

Reissue. A republication at a different price, or in a different form, of part of an impression which has already been placed on the market.

(4) Localisation.

When the circulation of an impression of a book is limited by agreement to a particular area, that each copy of that impression should bear a conspicu- ous notice to that effect.

WM. H. PEET.

ELEANORA m TOLEDO (9 th S. ii. 169). Don Pietro di Toledo, 1484, son of Don Federigo di Toledo, second Duke of Alva, and Isabella Zuniga, daughter of the Duke of Bedmar Don Pietro, known as " the Great Toreador,' Viceroy of Naples, married Donna Maria Osoria, Marchioness of Villafranca, grand daughter and heiress of the Count of Bene vento. Eleonora di Toledo, their daughter married Cosimo di Medici, April (?), 1539. ST. CLAIR BADDELEY.

BOOK-BORROWING (9 th S. ii. 66, 119, 231). The trouble of blocks and the ledger-search ing referred to by CANON FOWLER are botl

voided in the Aberdeen University Library, .vhere the slips on which borrowers ask for looks are arranged in drawers in the order f press-marks. Q. V.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Dictionary of National Biography. Edited by

Sidney Lee. Vol. LVI. (Smith, Elder & Co.) tf EITHER very long nor very numerous are the con- reat national undertaking now, under his admir- able direction, approaching completion. They remain models for other contributors to fol- ow, and one or two of them have exceptional value and importance. One would scarcely have expected Thomas Thorpe, the publisher, a man of little reputation and less merit, to come into las won such undeserved honours, and the bio- graphy is one of the most important in the volume. Thorpe's chief claim upon remembrance is the publication (furtive in a sense) in 1609 of Shak- ipeare's sonnets, and their dedication to Mr. W. H. as the "only begetter." Reams of paper have been written on the question whether these initials stood
 * ributions of the editor to the latest volume of the
 * he editor's hands. As it happens, however, he
 * or William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, or, by a

reversal of the letters, for Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. Wholly unprepared should we be to reopen a discussion with which every student of Shakspearian literature is familiar. Mr. Lee now dismisses into the limbo of the vanities both ascriptions, and holds that the " only begetter of the sonnets" was the only procurer of the MS. volume in which they appeared. Mr. W. H. is held to be William Hall, an obscure stationer, engaged at the time in " the irresponsible rdle of procurer for pub- lication." Far too wide is the question to be dealt with in a notice of the volume. We can but con- liardihood of the conjecture and upon the curious erudition by which the ascription is supported. We agree with Mr. Lee that the title-page ' Shakspeare's Sonnets' is "a tradesmanlike collocation of words" prohibitive of all idea of Shakspeare being asso- ciated with the publication. The assumption that Mr. Lee is right in his main contention leads one to smile at the waste of intellect that has been wit- nessed in the attempt to bolster up previous theories. Sir William Temple, 1555-1627, not to be confounded with his later and better-known name- sake, is also treated by Mr. Lee, who has obtained access to MS. information concerning a man who was secretary in 1585 to Sir Philip Sidney, and in whose arms that hero died. Three Throckmortons Francis, 1554-1584, executed at Tyburn ; Morton, Puritan, 1545-1601 ; and Sir Nicholas, 1515-71, diplo- matistare in the hands of Mr. Lee, who casts doub f. on the charge that the last named met his death by poison administered by the Earl of Leicester. Wil- liam Thynne, the editor of Chaucer, and Edmund Tilney, died 1610, complete the list of Mr. Lee's contributions. The name of most literary interest in the volume, which extends from Teach to Toilet, will, in the opinion of most readers, be held to be Alfred Tennyson. The great poet is reverentially, delicately, and appreciatively treated by Canon Ainger. The literary estimate and the record alike commend themselves to the reader. Almost the only
 * ratulate Mr. Lee upon the ingenuity and the