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sources. Each has its separate moral in prose or rime, and most of them will be new to the majority of readers. In the characters of animals the same rules are observed as in Western fable. As the symbol of strength the lion -or, in one or two instances, the tiger-is king, the fox is the symbol of cunning, the bear of inert power, the wolf of ferocity, the owl of assumed wisdom, and so lortn. The story of the ass and the watchdog recalls a well-known fable of the former and the lapdpg, but it is by braying all night instead of leaping on his master's knees that he seeks in the Indian story to make himself agreeable. Some of the morals lack conciseness.

Giving is but giving in vain

When we give to take again

is less vigorous, even if less coarse, than "Twice given stinks."

The English Catalogue of Books. Vol. VI., January,

1898, to December, 1900. (Sampson Low & Co.) THE sixth volume of this invaluable aid to the bibliophile concludes the record 9f English books of the last century. How rapidly the output increases is shown by the fact that whereas the fourth volume of slightly over 700 pages con- tained the books published from 1881 to 1889, the sixth volume, which reaches nearly 800 pages, covers no more than three years. It is true that additions to the information supplied are made in the later volumes. These are, however, responsible for less than a hundred pages, and go very little way towards explaining the rate of increase. According to the admirable scheme now followed, titles and index are not only in one volume, but in one alphabet. Take a name, for instance, such as Kipling, R. This, as that of the author, is printed in heavy type. It is repeated before every item, and the full title of the oook, its dimensions, con- tents, price, publisher, and year are also given. As regards size, we have not only terms, such as "cr. 8vo," but particulars, such as "7f x5|." We have spoken of this work, not only on the appear- ance of volumes, but on the production of annual parts, as one of the most serviceable we possess. Few works concerning books are consulted by us with more frequency or advantage, and the appear- ance of successive volumes is hailed by us with gratification. The possession of a complete set is a matter on which the book-lover is to be con- gratulated almost as warmly as is the librarian and the bookseller, to whom it is, of course, a trade organ.

The Library. Edited by J. Y. W. MacAlister.

(Kegan Paul & Co.)

THE latest number of the Library contains an excellent portrait of Mr. Melvil Dewey, the in- ventor of the system of decimal classification and the corresponding editor of the Library for the United States. Mr. Cyril Davenport exposes what is really a new terror for the bibliophile in the shape of 'Forgeries in Bookbinding,' which seem to be as easy as they are objectionable. It would appear that there is a trade in false Groliers and Maiolis. Mr. Dix's 'Irish Provincial Printing prior to 1701' gives much interesting information as to presses at Waterford, Kilkenny, Cork, and Belfast. 'The King's Printing House under the Stuarts' supplies some curious particulars as to Robert Barker, John Bill, and others. Mr.

W. E. A. Axon describes a visit to the church library at Michelstadt, in Odenwald. Mr. Archi- bald Clarke writes on * Lessing as a Librarian.' There is, indeed, in the number any amount of valuable matter.

Photograms of the Year 1901. (Dawbarn & Ward.) THE latest volume of Photograms is in no respect inferior to the previous volumes, to which we have annually drawn attention. There is, indeed, a con- stant advance which is of happiest augury. Many of the illustrations now given, most of them repro- duced by Carl Hentschel & Co., are of remarkable beauty. This is especially true of portraits and landscapes, but many of the figure subjects are arrayed and grouped with artistic feeling. The successive volumes since 1895, when the first appeared, rest on our own shelves, and are prized. As the illustrations are not confined to work executed by English processes, but extend to America and several European countries, the whole gives a glimpse of the general progress of photography.

WE have also received from the same London firm and Tennant & Ward, of New York, successive monthly parts of the Photominiature. These are also of much interest. It is a pity that they are not issued in volumes like the preceding, since it is impossible to devote space to single numbers.

MESSRS. HODDER & STOUGHTOX are publishing, in a series to be called " The Red-Letter Series," the Isopel Berners episode of George Borrow, extracted from Sorrow's * Lavengro ' and ' Romany Rye,' with a critical introduction and notes by Mr. Thomas Seccombe, assistant editor of the ' Dictionary of National Biography.'

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