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great masters. The scheme is happy, and is capable of indefinite extension. Dr. Williamson, t( whom the inception is due, has contributec two out of the first three volumes, Mr. Malcolm Bell being responsible for the third. The choice is happy. At the present moment Velazquez is regarded as the greatest of painters ; and though one must go to Madrid to see him at his best, our own National Gallery is rich in his works. Dr. Williamson supplies a life of the artist, an essay on his art, a suggested chronology, and lists oJ his chief works and of the authorities. Eight illustrations, all from Madrid or Rome, are given. In similar fashion Fra Angelico and Sir Edward Burne-Jones are treated. Future volumes, shortly to appear, will comprise Watteau, Mr. G. F. Watts, and Komney. The series is well executed, and the volumes are prettily got up and likely to serve the popular purpose for which they are intended.

Rugby School Register. Revised and annotated by the Rev. A. T. Michell. Vol. 1., 1675-1842. (Rugby, Lawrence.)

THE editor has performed his difficult task with great patience and skill, and a highly interesting record is the result. Rugby has produced many great men, and students of the eighteenth century will find names which suggest many pleasant bypaths of history. Until 1777 the boys wore cocked hats and queues. Close by in 1783 are W. S. Landor, Danteian H. F. Gary, and Butler, the great head master of Shrewsbury. Noticing the name of John Sale, writing master, who died in 1869, we wonder if foolscap paper Is still sold in the school quadrangle as " Jacksale," as it certainly was as late as the eighties, though the origin of the slang was even then obscured. The volume ends with Arnold's death ; there are still, we fancy, a good few of his pupils alive. We thought that we should be able to name the oldest of old Rugbeians, but, alas ! death has just forbidden us to note the survival of Sir F. J. Halliday, the distinguished Anglo-Indian, who governed Bengal more than forty years ago, and entered Rugby at the age of seven in 1814.

Recollections of the Old Foreign Office, By Sir

Edward Hertslet. (Murray.)

SIR EDWARD HERTSLET, long the Librarian and Keeper of State Papers at the Foreign Office, as was his father, gives us in his new volume some historical and antiquarian facts about the offices at Westminster. "The Cockpit," for example, is discussed. In one of his stories he calls on Mr 1 horns, at the House of Lords, and finds our founder writing to ' N. & Q.' on the quotation

While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimm'd hat.

An Illustrated Catalogue of Old and Rare Books

(Pickering & Chatto.)

As we studied consecutive numbers of the interest- ing illustrated catalogue of Messrs. Pickering & Chatto, to one or two numbers of which we have drawn attention, we hoped that they would be united to form a volume. This wish is now granted and the series constitute a singularly handsome and attractive book. This is but a trade catalogue with prices affixed. How useful such have bien and still are is known to many bibliophiles and bibliographers who have been indebted to works of this class, from the " Guinea Pig" of H G Bohn

to the even more ponderous volumes of Mr. Quaritch, to say nothing of the handsome works issued by the great Paris booksellers. The catalogue now published in its entirety by Messrs. Pickering & Chatto brims over with interesting works of a class now most in demand in Eng- land and America. Its frontispiece reproduces a beautiful illumination in gold and colours from a MS. Book of Hours of the fifteenth century. Other designs of no less interest are found in the body of the book, and there is scarcely a page that does not reproduce title-pages, portraits, illustra- tions, or bindings from books of rarity or value. The book in itself is a treasure, and as such should be secured at once by the book-lover.

MR. HENRY FROWDE has issued from the Oxford University Press copies in various sizes of the George Prince of Wales Prayer Book, containing the warrant just issued for the new Accession Service, the Service in question, and the various alterations in the Book of Common Prayer rendered necessary by the proclamation of the Duke of Corn- wall and York as Prince of Wales. The Prayer Book is now complete, no further alteration being in contemplation. It is printed on thin paper in a type of great clearness, and in is limp morocco binding.

MR. FROWDE has also published, in the " Oxford Miniature Edition," Browning's Dramatic Lyrics and Romances, and other Poems. It includes reprints of the first editions of 'Pauline' (1833), the 'Col- lected Poems' (1849), 'Christmas Eve and Easter Bay ' (185D), and ' Men arid Women ' (1855). This gem is accompanied by an early portrait.

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