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with John Chapman in 1844, and has been associated with the Triibner firm all through its existence, being editor of the American and Oriental Record for twenty-five years.

Triibner married a daughter of Octave Delepierre by bis first Mrs< Triibner wife, Emilia Napier, elder sister of the late Lord Napier of Magdala. She died on the 3rd of June, 1908, and a short notice of her from a correspondent appeared in The Athenceum of the 13th of June.

" The Row " has now spread to the streets on its north side, formerly occupied by butchers' shops, and the smell from them combined with that of glue, did not add to its charm.

Proceeding west we find that in 1858, in King William Street, Strand, on the left-hand side, John Chapman carried on his business. A few doors up was Joel Rowsell's shop for the sale of second-hand books. His monthly catalogues were most successful, and brought him large sales. Among many callers to obtain information about books were Gladstone, Grote, Macaulay, Lytton, and Sheepshanks. The last-named having given his pictures to the nation, at once proceeded to fill his house with books.

Chapman's next-door neighbour was Charles James Skeet, c - J - Skeet the front portion of whose shop was devoted to second-hand books, while in a room at the back he conducted the business of a publisher. He was much liked by authors, one of whom has lately issued remi- niscences of him. He was a man of kindly disposition and gentle manners, and particular in his dress usually a blue frock coat and white waistcoat. Among the books he was publishing in January, 1858, was Cyrus Redding's ' Recollections.'

Close to Skeet's was Stewart's shop, which was crammed with old divinity. Here Stewart had as an assistant Mr. F. S. Ellis, who after setting up in business in York Street, Covent Garden, established himself in Bond Street both as a publisher and an old- bookseller.

��THE VETERANS' RELIEF FUND.

(See ante, p. 272.)

"I appeal to you to assist me in saving those who have fought for their country in their youth from the ignominy of the workhouse in their old age, and the humiliation of a pauper's grave."

ROBEBTS, F.M.

This Fund, which I refer to on p. 272, amounted on the 17th of November, 1908, to 38,500, and Major A. Tudor Craig, the Secretary, informs me that " every penny of this money has already been absorbed by the 870 cases with which the Fund had dealt "

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