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 250 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9^ s.iv. SEPT. 23/99. Arnold." I cannot find any reference to these papers in Mr. Smart's excellent' Biblio- graphy of Matthew Arnold,' although many contributions by that writer to the Pall Mall Gazette are mentioned. I should therefore be much obliged for any information regard- ing these papers which may be in the pos- session of the correspondents of 'N. & Q.,' and should especially like to know the pre- cise dates at which they were published in the Pall Mall Gazette. W. F. PRIDEAUX. "THE INFANT'S LIBRARY." (9th S. iv. 129, 216.) IN seeking information as to date of pub- lication ME. DONALD WILSON has not taken pains to be accurate. He gives the dimen- sions of the little books as if in. by 2 in., and says that they are illustrated with woodcuts. The correct dimensions, exclusive of the pro- jecting boards, are 1? in. by -j in., and the illustrations, with the exception of those in vol. xvi., which are woodcuts, are from copper-plates. I have" two sets, both of six- teen volumes. One is in a box, with sliding lid decorated with a copper-plate engraving lettered "Infant's Library"; the upper part represents a bookcase, and in a lower panel children are shown busy with their lessons. The other set is enclosed in a miniature book- case of varnished pine, with painted decora- tions. The sliding glass front is divided into four compartments, and underneath are three drawers. I once saw a case with twelve volumes, and your correspondent mentions that his set contains twenty-four. I think that these books must have been sold in sets of any number within the twenty-four to suit the pockets of purchasers. There is no date, but in the fourth volume is an advertisement: "Just published, by J. Marshall, the Twenty-fourth Number of the Children's Magazine." In vols. v., viii., x., xi., xii.. xiii., and xv. is the same advertise- nient,altered to the "Twenty-sixth Number." The inference is that, the preliminary volumes being successful, others were issued as fast as they could be produced. The first number of the Children's Magazine (a monthly) appeared in January, 1799, which gives us the Mate of publication of the "In- fant's Library"—the latter part of 1800. In the same year J. Wallis, a rival, pub- lished a set of ten books on a somewhat larger scale, entitled "The Book-3aso of Knowledge," with very pretty copperplate frontispieces, which were sold in a decorated box closely following Marshall's; but "who imitated who " I do not know. ANDREW W. TUER. The Leadenhail Press, B.C. This calls to mind a set of little books issued in a miniature bookcase, or box, at the beginning of this century. The box, about 6 in. by 4 in., stands upright, and has a lid sliding upwards decorated with a coloured picture of a bookcase, glass fronted and curtained, lettered "The Book-Case of Know- ledge." The inside contains ten paper-boarded volumes, 3| in. by 2j in., on a shelf with a drawer beneath. The subjects treated are natural history, botany, mythology, history of England, geography and astronomy, arithmetic, grammar, moral tales, Scripture history, lives of British heroes. Some have good copper- plates, others woodcuts. The illustrations in some are coloured by hand. These booklets were printed for J. Wallis No. 16, Ludgate Street, in 1800. As I have seen no other than my set in complete form, possibly it is rare, hence the length of this description. I. C. GOULD. Lougnton. A LOUVRE (9th S. iv. 49, 111).— In confirma- tion of what another correspondent has said upon this subject, I beg to mention that in Goldsmith's "scene" from 'The Grumbler,' a farce written and performed for Quick's benefit at Covent Garden Theatre (8 May, 1773) — a scrap, only given, I think, in the several editions of Goldsmith's ' Works' edited by Prior (1837), Cunningham (1854), and myself (1884, " Bohn's Library ")— " the loure ' appears amongst some eight or ten other dances as then popular in England. In my reprint of 'The Grumbler' fragment ('Works of Goldsmith,' ii. 298) we have :— Dancing Maxter. Will you have a minuet, Sir ? Sourby. A minuet: no. Danciny Mantr.r. The loure ? Sourbi/. The loure ; no. Dan flag Master. The passay? fSourbt/. The passay : no. Dancing Master. What then ? the trocanny, the tricotez, the rigodon ? Come, choose, choose. And further on other dances are mentioned. Prior, however, says that this farce was taken from Sedley's 'Grumbler' (three acts), which in turn came from the French of D. A. Bruey's ' Le Grondeur,' early in the eighteenth cen- tury. J. W. M. GIBBS. . APELLA," HOR., 'SAT.' I. v. 100 (9th S. iii. 326, 495).— If MR. LAWRENCE FORD had consulted the Index to the Eighth Series of ' N. & Q.' he would have found in GENERAL PATRICK MAXWELL'S note, in vol. xi. p. 123,