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what difficulties an editor would have had if he had placed him on his staff. The Saturday Review of my boyhood would have been quite outdone.

As we think of him we are amazed at the variety of his talents. What he painted shows the promise of a great artist ; his charming woodblocks are, I do not think it too much to say, equal to those of Bewick ; and frequently his illustrations are in the vein of Cruik- shank. This is particularly shown in a little volume which has just come into my possession through the courtesy of Mr. James Cameron of Edinburgh. It is entitled ' The Skater's Monitor, Instructor, and Evening Companion,' published by John Menzies, 1846. The illus- trations are all by Ebsworth, but they certainly might well have His collection been by Cruikshank. To his special study, the collection of Ballads, he of Ballads, devoted years of labour labour freely and cheerfully given, with the result that he has formed a Ballad History of England which should cause his name to be remembered by his countrymen for all time.

��ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

P. 16, 1. 13 from foot. George Bradshaw died at Christiania, not at Copenhagen.

P. 187, 1. 7 from foot. For 1808 read 1908.

P. 203, 1. 10 and side-note. For " Pennington " read Pennethorne.

P. 221, 1. 16. For Beazley " read Bazky.

P. 298, 1. 8 from foot. Mr. G. Merryweather, of Chicago, shows in Notes and Queries for January 16th, 1909 (p. 55), that the epigram on Charles I. and William Penn was published originally in the New York Evening Post, and cannot have been written by Dr. Garnett, though Mr. Merryweather is unable to identify the author.

P. 309, 1. 9. For Libre " read Liber.

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