MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS'S Catalogue 306 contains under America Biologia Centrali-Americana, edited by Godman and Salvin, section Archæology by Maudsley, consisting of 1 vol. text, royal 4to, sewed, and 16 vols. of plates, oblong folio, boards, 1889-1902, 241. Under Arabian Nights is Burton's edition, Benares, 1885-8, 16 vols., 281. Under Art and Architecture are a few books from Under Blake are a the library of an architect.

series of facsimiles, folio, half-morocco, 1876, 51. 58. (one of a hundred copies for private circula tion); also Gilchrist's Life, plates on India paper, 2 vols., 1880, 31. 58. Under Books is Sotheby's Principia Typographica,' 3 vols., imperial 4to, 1858, 8l. 108. Under Brontë is the Rev. Patrick Brontë's Cottage Poems,' 1811, 7s. 6d. There are works under Charles I., Civil War, and Common

wealth. Under John Curtis is the author's own copy of his British Entomology,' with the complete series of the 770 original water-colour drawings, 1051. Publications of the Kelmscott Press include Swinburne's 'Atalanta' and Morris's Golden Legend.' Among works on London will be found Rocque's Plan, 1746, 51. 5s.; Wheatley's London, Past and Present,' extended to 6 vols., half-morocco, 1891, 167.; and Wilkinson's Londina Illustrata,' large paper, an early and clean copy, 2 vols., folio, half-morocco, 1819, 71. 10s. Books on Napoleon include the first edition of Combe, 1815, 127.; and Ireland's Life, with series of folding and other coloured plates by Cruikshank, 4 vols., full red levant, 1828, 351. Other items are Newman's Works, 33 vols., halfmorocco, 1875-88, 61. 158.; and a good tall copy of the first edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle, old French morocco, the first pages slightly wormed, containing the supplement De Samarcia, but only two blank leaves, 1493, 251.; under Spenser is the first folio edition, 1811-13, title mounted, 51. 158.

Mr. Charles J. Sawyer's Catalogue of New Books at Half-Prices contains 'Don Quixote,' Shelton's translation, with the 260 plates specially drawn for this edition by Daniel Vierge, 4 handsome vols., 1907, 5. 5s. (edition limited to 155 copies, and published at 15l. net). There are many works suitable for presentation, including illustrated books such as The Three Musqueteers,' with 250 pictures by Leloir, 2 vols., imperial Svo, 1l. 108.; and The Bible in Art,' 2 vols., 15s. 6d. Other works are Religious Systems of the World,' 4s. 6d.; Graetz's History of the Jews,' 5 vols., 1. 15s.; and Gibbs's Men and Women of the French Revolution,' 28 full-page portraits, 4to, 17s. 6d. There are also works of travel, biographies, and volumes in all classes of literature.

Messrs. Henry Sotheran & Co.'s Price Current 710 contains a complete set of Ackermann's Repository, 40 vols., royal 8vo, half-russia, 18091828, very scarce, 651. Under Ainsworth is the large-type Library Edition, 16 vols., half-morocco, Sl. 158. There are works under Aldine Press, Alp-Lore, and America. There is a complete set of The Annual Register,' tree calf extra. Under Matthew Arnold is the Edition de Luxe, 15 vols., half-levant by Rivière, 1903-4, 211. Under Bacon are Spedding's edition, 14 vols., new calf, 127. 12s.; and Pickering's edition,

edited by Basil Montagu, 17 vols., new morocco, 1825, 227. 108. There is a fine specimen of binding from the library of Henry VIII. Under Browning are first editions. Carlyle items include Clarendon Press edition; and under China is the Centenary Edition. Under Chaucer is the Brinkley's Japan and China,' Library Edition, limited to 500 copies, 12 vols., half orange levant, 1903-4, 181. 18s. There is a fine collection of coaching books, 20 vols., red levant by Rivière, 1882-1905, 581. 10s. A long list under Dickens

includes numerous first editions. Among many handsome sets are the works of George Eliot, Jesse, &c. Edward FitzGerald, J. R. Green, Ben Jonson, The Catalogue also contains three works under India; and a fine original set of rare copies of Chapman's Homer'; a number of Punch, with all the wrappers and advertisements, Under Shakespeare are copies of the Second and 1841-1908, 135 vols., new half-morocco, 1251.

Third Folios.

Mr. Albert Sutton's Manchester Catalogue 184 contains first and early editions of Harrison Ainsworth; also the Windsor Edition, 20 vols., 1901, 41. 48. Under Blake is the Life by Gilchrist, 2 vols., 1880, 27. 108. There is the first edition of The Zincali,' and the second of The Bible in Spain.' The first edition of Brome's 'Horace,' morocco, 1666, is 4l. Under Coleridge is Cottle's Recollections,' 2 vols., 1837, 12s.; under Thomas Hardy, first editions of Tess and The Trumpet-Major'; under Lever, a collection of first editions, 10 vols., uniform half-calf, 1839-65, 71. 78.; under Marryat, first editions of 'Poor Jack' and 'The Pirate; and under Punch a set of the original issue. There are some first editions of Thackeray, and the Library Edition, 22 vols., half-morocco, 1869, 7. 15s. The Satirist, or Monthly Meteor. 1808-12 (wanting vol. vi., &c.), is 21. 2s.

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ing resemblance to the medallion in Great Ilford Hospital Church referred to on p. 362 as Ib Below the shield is what has been an oval piece of glass, but which, having been broken, is now in several pieces leaded together, whereon are the scarcely discernible remains of a coat of arms, the blazon of which seems to read, Azure, on a chevron arg. 3 white roses, seeded and barbed ppr. between 3 garbs (perhaps fleursde-lis) or. Crest, a seated, or three-quarter, human figure or. Motto, "....the truthe." A noticeable fact about this painting is that the brown outline and all the colours, except the yellow stain, have perished to such a degree that the design can only with difficulty be made out, and I am inclined to think that it is an example of 16th- or 17thcentury varnish painting on glass, so far as the pigments other than the yellow stain, which is bright and clear, are concerned.

On the dexter side of the central shield is the red rose of Lancaster, barbed ppr., with the white rose of York, seeded ppr., in pretence. Small fragments of a blueand-yellow chaplet remain round the roses, while above the chaplet is a royal crown of four half-arches, with crosses patée and fleurs-de-lis on the circlet and a ball and cross on the top. On the sinister side of the shield is a red rose, seeded and barbed ppr., with blue-and-yellow chaplet, almost complete, encircling it, and above, a royal crown similar to, but larger, bolder in design, and with higher arches than, that over the other

church is also strengthened by the fact that a brass to Thomas, son and heir to this Sir John Heron, is on the north wall. The inscription below the figure, which is that of a youth in civilian dress, states that Thomas died in 1517, aged 14.

I am much indebted to L. M. R. for his suggestions at 11 S. ii. 464. On the whole, of the two solutions which he suggests, I incline to that of Joab slaying Amasa. The foreground of the painting is open country —trees, undergrowth, and broken groundvery well answering to the description in 2 Sam. xx. of the place where Amasa's murder took place, but not so suggestive of the scene of Joab's slaying of Abner, 66 the middle of the gate of Hebron. The treacherous slayer, too, in the picture is dressed after the manner mentioned in verse 8, and prominence is given to his sword scabbard, as in the Biblical account. On the other hand, it must be admitted that the murderer holds his sword (the blade of which is buried in his victim's right side) in his own right hand, and he is taking the older man's chin with his left hand. These slight differences, however, may be merely the effect of the artist's liberties with his subject.

F. SYDNEY EDEN. Maycroft, Fyfield Road, Walthamstow.

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"BOW-WOW" STYLE.

MR. CURRY's interesting article (11 S. ii. 522) has reminded me of the use of the familiar cry of the dog by serious writers. Max Müller spoke of the extravagances of the school who favoured onomatopoeic explanations as "bow-wow words." This was meant, of course, sarcastically, and the word generally connotes contempt and impudence rather than dignity or impressiveness. But this is hardly so in three examples, two of which are, I take it, derived from the earliest. Boswell in his 'Life of Johnson' (vol. ii. p. 326, ed. Birkbeck Hill) refers to his hero's mode of speaking as indeed very impressive," and adds the note :

My noble friend Lord Pembroke said once to me at Wilton, with a happy pleasantry and some truth, that Dr. Johnson's sayings would not appear as extraordinary, were it not for his bowwow way.'"

This clearly represents, to quote Boswell again in the same passage, Johnson's When he berate and strong utterance." started barking, no one else had a chance to break in; it was a case of the "sort of at mentioned by Gratiano men

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men.

I believe, Citizens, that this short statement argues sufficiently in my favour, and proves plainly that I cannot be classed, by the law of 17 September, 1793, Old Style, under suspected I could also support myself in this respect by the Report made by the Diplomatic Committee to the National Convention, 14 February, 1793, at the time of the reunion of the Principality of Monaco to the French Republic, and claim the justice which this Committee did not fail to render on that occasion to the sentiments that I have always manifested.

But, Citizens, I have without doubt sufficiently proved that I am entitled to profit by the kind intentions of the decree of the 18th of this month, and I implore your justice to grant me speedily the benefit of it, fully convinced that the representatives of a free and generous people will put a stop to the detention which I have suffered for nearly a year, and that they will at the same time order the removal of the seals put in my house.

As to the correspondence mentioned above, I can only congratulate myself that from what has been sent to the Committee of General Safety it will be the better able to judge of my true sentiments. As to being one of the enemies of the State, I cannot conceive what has led the Committee of Revolutionary Surveillance, of the Section of the Red Cap, to use these terms; in truth, I am certain of never having written against the Revolution or the prosperity of the French Republic, and I defy any one to produce the slightest proof to the contrary.

ANNA SEWARD: DATE OF HER BAPTISM.— Mr. A. L. Reade in his 'Johnsonian Gleanings' (p. 34) writes: "It is strange that the date of Anna Seward's birth never seems to have been correctly stated.” He gives the date as 1 December, 1744.

Being her representative, tracing through the first wife of John Hunter, I have taken the trouble (I wish I had done so before publishing a booklet on Anna Seward) to obtain a certificate, signed on 5 May, 1910, by the present Rector of Eyam, which states that Anne Seward, the daughter of the Rev. Thomas Seward, Rector of Eyam, and Mrs. Elizabeth Seward his wife,' W&s baptized 28 December, 1742.

The Seward family Bible is in the possession of Sir Robert White-Thomson of Exbourne, North Devon, who is the representative of Anna Seward through Hunter's second wife, and the statement in it that she was born on the 1st of December, 1744, and baptized on the 28th of the same month, and that her sponsors were her Uncle Norton, her Aunt Martin, and Mrs. Jackson of Burton, must, of course, now be treated as erroneous, so far as it relates to the date of the baptism. STAPLETON MARTIN.

The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

SYBIL, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND: HER PARENTAGE.-Alexander I., King of Scotland, about the time of his accession (1107),

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Section of the Red Cap. Committee of Revolutionary Surveillance. The 24 Thermidor, year 2 of the Republic one and indivisible. Arrested as ex-noble, and having a son an émigré. On taking off the seals placed on his house to extract the papers, they have sent all his correspondence with the enemies of the State, at home and beyond the Republic, to the Committee of General Safety.

Made the day and year above said. Signed D'Aire President and Tosi Secretary. The MS. is on 4 pp. 4to, similar paper and watermark to the Examination (11 S. i. 362). The parts in italics are underlined in the original. The year seems to be 1794.

D. J.

of Henry I., King of England (D.N.B.'). Sybil's mother is not referred to, but under Henry I. she is said to have been a sister of Waleran, Count of Meulan, the authorities cited being Orderic and Skene's 'Celtic Scotland.' No doubt the sister referred to was Isabel (afterwards wife of Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke), who was a mistress of Henry I. (Planché, Conqueror and his Companions,' i. 216).