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��NOTES BY THE WAY.

��Cromwell,' at 40Z. The 1595 ' Locrine ' ' of Shakespeare's among the sins of his youth,' according to Hazl,t, next realized 1201. (Quaritch), a copy having fetched 99 guineas in the Daniel Sale, 1864, and 45J. in the Tite Sale, 1874. The rest were: ' Oldcastle ' (1600), 511. (Pickering); 'The Puritaine ' (1607), 121. (Quaritch); 'The Two Noble Kinsmen,' 621. (ditto) ; and 'The Yorkshire Tragedie ' (1619),

111. (Leighton)

" The First Folio, measuring 13 in. by 8J in., or \ in. less in width than the 3.600Z. Locker-Lampson copy in the Van Antwerp Sale, and J in. wider than the 2,400Z. Buckley specimen, was welcome as a remarkable survivor of the 1623 edition in its natural state. After the opening at 500J. there was a general contest, in which Mr. Edwards, Mr. Quaritch, and Mr. Robson were conspicuous, the first named winning at 2,025Z. Mr. Robson afterwards found consolation in ob- taining the excellent Third Folio at 5251., the perfect Langham example of this fetching, it may be recalled, 1,5502. in the Buckley dispersal."

��1908, Jan. 4.

The Indian Mutiny.

Daily

Telegraph

dinner.

��Earl Roberts's speech.

��John Nicholson.

��Henry Lawrence.

��THE INDIAN MUTINY (1857-1907).

Monday, December 23rd, 1907, will be ever memorable in the annals of our Press as being the day on which Lord Burnham, the proprietor of The Daily Telegraph, provided a Christmas dinner, in the Albert Hall, for the surviving veterans of the Indian Mutiny. The idea was a happy one, and most happily was it carried out. Not a veteran able to be present was absent, while those too feeble to attend, or even across the seas, were not forgotten. The event has been so fully reported that only a brief note is necessary for the future chronicler.

Earl Roberts the Lieut. Roberts of the Mutiny days pre- sided, and after reference to Havelock, to Outram (the Bayard of India), and many others, made special mention of

" Henry Lawrence, the statesman, and John Nicholson, the soldier both respected and looked up to by the natives in a way that few sahibs have been looked up to and respected. Though only 35 years of age when he died, Nicholson had made a name for himself on the North- West frontier of India which is remembered to this day. He was actually worshipped by a sect who call themselves ' Nicholseynes.' ' This,' continued Lord Roberts, ' never astonished me, for of all the men I have served under for some of whom I had a great admira- tion none of them impressed me in the same way as Nicholson.' '

In reference to Henry Lawrence, Lord Roberts spoke of the asylums founded in his name,

" in the hills of India, for the education of British soldiers serving in that country .... It was he who, fourteen years before the Mutiny broke out, predicted what would occur if we neglected to take the most ordinary precautions. It is not too much to say of Henry Lawrence, that, but for his influence over the natives, which prevented the Sepoys at and about Lucknow mutinying until he had time to make the Resi- dency fairly secure, and for his foresight in storing it with a vast amount

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