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 9* s. vi. NOT. 17, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 399 Sherbroke of Notts, Vair, a chief or ; over all on a bend gules, three mullets arg., pierced c he last. OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B. Oxford. " OLD JAMAICA " (9th S. v. 49; vi. 354).—B an extraordinary slip I have, at the seconc reference, designated the sun as a planet Will readers kindly forgive and correct 1 F. ADAMS. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (9th S vi. 330).— This much, and this is all, we know. In a hymn by John Newton, 1779 (' Olney Hymns'}. commencing— In vain our fancy strives to paint The moment after death, the fourth verse is— This much, and this is all, we know. They are supremely blest; Have done with sin. and care, and woe, And with their Saviour rest. CHAS. IHMAK. [Similar replies received.] That dark inn the ?rave. Scott, ' Lord of the Isles,' book vi. stanza 26. Q. V. Some diah more sharply spiced than this Milk-soup men call domestic bliss. These lines are bv Coventry Patmore, and occur in the short poem ' Olympus.' S. G. H. NOTES ON BOOKS, Ac. Book-Prices Current. Vol. XIV. (Stock.) THAT the rapid extension of size in ' Book-Prices Current' which marked previous volumes is arrested, and that the volume for 1900 is less by one sheet than its predecessor, is attributable solely to the influences of the war. To the same cause it has to be charged that the average sum realized per lot has shrunk from 21. 19s. 5(1., at which it formerly stood, to 21. 6s. 2d. The malign influence was—as Mr. Slater, the editor, shows —principally felt during the months of December of the past and January of the present year, when reports of dis- asters and untoward incidents succeeded each other with unfortunate rapidity. From the effects of the depression thus exercised the recovery wit- nessed in June and July failed to redeem us. No library of primary importance was, indeed, sold during the year, borne sales of great interest there were, such as that of the Tixall library. Massed together, however, the most noticeable sales of last season would not approach the importance of a single Ashburnham or Syston Park collection. Not on that account is the present volume less valuable than its predecessors, and a careful study of it is indispensable to one seeking to under- stand or write about the state of the English book- market at the close of the century. Most remark- able of all is the change that has come over the early editions of Stevenson and Mr. Kipling, the pricM of which bar* been unduly inflated. Mr. Slater describes the collapse as in some instances "disastrous." 'Schoolboy Lyrics' thus fell from

l. to 31. 5k, the most marvellous reduction we have ever known. Next to this comes the United, Service College Chronicle, nineteen numbers of which, in July, 1899,brought 10R, while the largest set then ever sold, comprising forty-two numbers, wentduring the present year for 297 ; an even larger set was sold subsequently for 51. Hi-.,, and thirteen numbers brought only U. Some sensible and satis- factory reasons for a reduction which others had seen to be inevitable are supplied by the editor. It is pleasant forpossessors of the great productions of the Kelmsoott Press that no similar falling off—- indeed, no falling off at all—is to be feared. That opinion also we have heard expressed in other quarters, but it is gratifying to have it corroborated by so eminent an authority aa Mr. Slater. Turning to the book itself, which we still regard as indispensable to the collector, we find little or nothing which could be improved. In a few further cases it might be well to add dates of rmblication. Thus in the case of the ' Me'thode et Invention Nouvelle de traiter les Chevaux' of the Duke of Newcastle two entries appear in the index. One of these lots brings I/., the other 167. It might be well in future to give the dates, which are different, and distinguish that one is in English and the other in French. It is good news that the index to the first ten volumes is nearing com- pletion, and that the publisher hopes shortly to issue it. Intending subscribers should take cog- nizance of the fact, since the issue will be limited. A Guide to the Study of Book-Plates {Ex-Libru). By John Byrne Leicester Warren (Lord de Tabley). (Manchester, Sherratt &, Hughes.) THE 'Guide to the Study of Book-Plates' of the Hon. Leicester Warren (afterwards the third and last Lord de Tabley), first published in 1880, has long been a scarce and valued book. It did more than any other work to establish the cult of the book-plate, was in part responsible for the origin of the Ex-Libris Society, and established a system of classification which has since been maintained and expanded. So highly has it been esteemed liat Mr. Thairlwall, a member of the Council, has
 * ompiled a serviceable index, which haa been

•>y permission reprinted in a limited edition from Tabley's book has, in answer to manv applications, at length been issued by Lady Leighton Warren, the sister of the writer. Comnaring the rpprint with the original edition, we find practically no alteration. Everything, to the number of pages, is
 * he Society's Journal. A new edition of Lord de
 * he same; some slight addition to the prefatory

matter is traceable, and one or two corrections not easily detected have been made from Lord de Tabley's own copy. So thoroughly a labour of love had been the compilation of the book, and so much assistance had been received from the best autho- rities on the subject, that no change was called for. The book will be warmly welcomed by a public many members of which have sought for it long. Hampton Court: a Short ffixtory of the Royal Manor and Palace. By Ernest Law. (Bell ft Sons.) IT is a good idea to compress into a volume of "Bonn's Illustrated Library" that portion of Mr. Law's ' History of Hampton Court Palace' which is of service to the general reader. The original history, to the merits of which we have borne