Rivers's Archæological Works, with memoir by Gray, 6 vols., 4to, privately printed, 1887-1905, 51. 58.; a set of The Reliquary, 34 vols., 81. 8s. ; and Northcote's Sir Joshua Reynolds,' with the scarce Supplement, an extra-illustrated copy, 4to, calf extra, 1813-15, 4l. 10s. Mr. George Gregory's Bath Catalogue 203-4 contains recent purchases. We note Aristophanis Comœdiæ,' 5 vols., large paper, royal 8vo, levant, a fine set, 21.; Bacon's Works, 10 vols., 1824, 17. 18.; and Hume and Smollett, 13 vols., Pickering, 1826, 17. There are a number of journals, magazines, and Proceedings of Societies. American items include Reports of the Coast, Geological, and Geographical Surveys. A complete set of The Ancestor, a fine unopened copy, is 21. There is a complete set of The Illustrated London News to December, 1899, 9., besides a set of The Graphic. There are original documents in courthand with seals, with facsimile illustrations dating from 1260 to 1750, comprising wills and chantry foundations, chiefly relating to Wells, Chedder and district, and a few Exeter documents. There is also a collection of Nelson MSS. containing upwards of 250 original documents. A note Messrs. Jeffery & Co. send two Catalogues, Nos. 12 and 13, both containing cheap books and pamphlets. There is one item of special interest to Thackeray collectors, The National Standard of Literature, Nos. 1 to 57, all issued. states that Dr. John Brown, referring to The National Standard and Thackeray's connexion with it, says that " Thackeray's editorial reign began about the nineteenth number, after which he appears to have done a good deal of work, reviews, criticisms, verses, &c." (North British Review, February, 1864). There are pamphlets under America, Ireland, Slave Trade, and Woman Suffrage 1871. There is an autograph letter of Lancaster, the founder of the system of education associated with his name. A copy of The London Catalogue of Books, 1800-27,' is 10s. 6d. Messrs. Sotheran & Co.'s Price Current 715 is rich in Books on Botany, Gardening, and Husbandry, all the well-known authorities appearing There are sets of Curtis's Botanical Magazine and of The Garden. Curtis's Flora Londinensis,' second edition, 647 plates coloured by hand, 5 vols., royal folio, half-morocco, 1817-28, is 31. 10s. ; a choice copy of Gerarde's Herbal,' levant extra, 1597, 257.; Sweet's British Flower Garden,' 7 vols., royal 8vo, half-calf, 1823-38, 21.; and a Japanese Flora with three indexes, 21 vols. in 11, half-morocco, 71. 158. Books on Freemasonry include a series of designs of the initiation ceremony, 7 coloured plates, 1812, 157. 158. There are books from the library of the author of Tom Brown's Schooldays,' and selections of foreign books from the library of the late Dr. Emil Reich, each bearing his book-plate. The other portion of the Catalogue contains the new Library Edition of Ruskin, 38 vols., 1903-9, 257. 108. (the last volume will be forwarded to the buyer when published). speare we find the Fourth Folio, the third Quarto Under Shakeof The Merchant of Venice,' the sixth Quarto of Pericles,' and a choice set which includes the fourth edition of Johnson and Steevens, Malone, Douce, and others, together 23 vols., morocco with floral tooling by Lewis, 1791-1807, 757. There are a number of works under Halliwell - Phillipps. Under Shelley is a copy of the poet's second publication, St. Irvyne,' the first edition, fcap. 8vo, with boards as issued, but with a new board case, Stockdale, 1811, 657. Mr. Sotheran parchment back, wholly uncut, in a silken cardin a note states that the book met with such a poor reception that the sheets were sold off as a remainder. In 1822 the holders of the sheets bound them up with a new title-page dated that year. Under Surrey is a copy of Manning and Bray, 3 vols., royal folio, calf, 1804-14, 217. Under Tennyson is the Edition de Luxe, 12 vols, levant by Rivière, 187. 18s. There is a choice set of Walpole's Historical Memoirs, 20 vols., 8vo, halflevant, 1845-59, 381. Under Yvery is Anderson's Genealogical History,' privately printed, 1742, 127. 12s. [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] Notices to Correspondents. WE beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print, and to this rule we can make no exception. WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately, of old books and other objects or as to the means of nor can we advise correspondents as to the value disposing of them. 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(G.) on battle of Barnet, 208 Almighty dollar, earliest use of the phrase, 109, : Alnwick walking through a bog, old custom, 47 Aberdonian on dogs on brasses, 208 American words and phrases, 48, 172, 196, 315, 354 Elizabeth (Queen), statue in the Royal Amphisbænic book, in the Bodleian Library, Abrahams (Aleck) on Court life, 193 Grange, Kilburn, 306 Wellington statues in London, 285 Aerial ship, advertised in' Athenæum' in 1835, 65 Afternooning, term in sermon, 1718, 206 Aidie (Andrew), of Danzig and Aberdeen, 1610, 246 89, 176 Ananias as a Christian name, 266, 333, 395, 453, Anderson (J. S.) on Anderson: Simpson: Dick- Anderson (P. J.) on Prince Albert on Balmoral, Boys' magazines in the fifties and sixties, Chalmers (William) of Fintray, 181 Chorley (Josiah), 287 Edwin Drood,' 307 'Gentleman's Magazine': volumes, 16 numbering of Morelius (Eligius) and Gilbert Masius, 488 Theses by Principal Andrew Aidie, 246 Anderson, Simpson, and Dickson genealogies, 188 Anglo-American mail service: its bicentenary, 5 Anon =erewhile, use of the word, 266 Churches of Yorkshire, 366, 418, 473 Progress of the Pilgrim Good-intent, 9, 58 Rhoda, a novel, 449 Sentimental Journey to Margate and Hastings, Voice from the Bush, a poem, 48, 114, 214, Wandering Nag, Irish poem, 346 White Hand and a Black Thumb, 249, 338 Anscombe (A.) on Bishop Fastida and farmhouse Gratious on Gracines Street, 212 Antiquities, London, museums of, 401, 483 Apperson (G. L.) on pauper's badge, 118 Appleyard (John), his death c. 1572, 307 Arbuthnot (John), physician and wit, his mar- Notes and Queries, July 29, 1911. B B. (A. A.) on Gladstone on the upas tree, 414 B. (B.) on Stair divorce, 1820, 174 Lawrence (Sir T.), his sketch of Mrs. Linley, Arbuthnot (Robert) = Beatrix Gordon, her father, B. (C. C.) on adder's fat as cure for deafness, 117 Arrow, broad arrow, the King's mark, 1383, 245 Arundel (Sir John) of Clerkenwell, c. 1588, 367, Ascham (Roger) and Ioannes Ravisius Textor, Ashley or Astley (Katherine), governess to Queen Ashton (Sir William), M.P. 1624, his biography, Astarte on authors of quotations wanted, 388 Scott (Sir Walter), his poet ancestor, 287 Astley or Ashley (Katherine), governess to Queen Atrebatum Artois, ghosts in the churchyard, Attwood (J. S.) on " Or. Goldsmith, B.A.," 28 Austen (Canon George) on St. William's Day at Austin (Roland) on Benjamin Bathurst, 90 County coats of arms: co. Somerset, 77 High Stewards and Recorders at the Restora- American words and phrases, 315 Aristotle on education, 258 Authorized Version: date of translations, 395 Danes'-blood, a flower, 16 Echoes, remarkable, 352 N.E.D.' missing words in' Si-Simple,' 146 Siligo sprig: beckab: draget, 233 Chopin," 56 B. (E. F.) on 'House of Too Much Trouble,' 248 B. (E. T.) on teapoy: cellarette: gardevin, 272 B. (G. D.) on Bishop William FitzGerald, 91 B. (G. F. R.) on John Arbuthnot, physician and B. (H. A.) on Anne Boleyn: Bulley Family, 8 Bruce (Michael) and Ode to the Cuckoo,' 104 B. (I. X.) on authors of quotations wanted, 348 White meats: wigs: afternooning, 206 B. (M. A.) on authors of quotations wanted, 147 B. (R.) on authors of quotations wanted, 92 Bedford Library, 446 Elmham (William), 193 Horses taken to church, 318 Pastrana (Julia), 179 Baddeley (Richard), 1620, his biography, 189, Baddeley (St. Clair) on Richard Baddeley, 492 Fishing in classical times, 393, Badge worn by paupers, its history, 55, 118 Bagehot (Walter) on the Crown, 307, 357 Bagnall (John), philosopher, c. 1784, his bio- Bagster (S. S.) on Ananias as a Christian name, Christian names used by men and women, 456 Sentimental Journey to Margate': 'Rhoda,' | Baillie, Anderson, and Simpson genealogies, 188 Deville, 226 English Bible, 1611, 101 Gale family, 297 Bakester (Geffery le) de Loffithe, Forfar, c. 1296, Baldock (Major G. Yarrow) on Hanoverian regi- Balfour (John), b. 1775, graduated 1789, 32, 75, Ball (H. Houston) on Abp. Euseby Cleaver, 114 Ballad of Splendid Silence,' its historical founda- Ballantyne (James), his Kelso press, 347, 396, Bandsmen, black, in the Army, 287, 336, 370, Banks (Percival), c. 1650, his genealogy, 267 Baptismal scarf, heirloom of Fitzwilliam family, Bar sinister, early use of the term, 212 Barbour (Charles), Westminster scholar, 1674, Barn Elms Farm, 1821, its locality, 267, 313 Barnet, battle of, its site, 208, 414 Barrell (Savage) and Humphrey Cotes, 308 229, Gray's Elegy: translations and parodies, Barrow (T. H.) on black bandsmen in the Army, 145 Babies' health affected by kittens, 18 432 Barrow (Thomas), artist, d. 1820, his descendants, 169 Barrows: long barrows and rectangular earth- Barrule on reform of the Calendar, 205 Bathurst (Benjamin), English diplomat, his Batsford (B. T.) on Talman and John Webb, Battle at Rigby, Lincolnshire, 1645, 487 Battle in Lincolnshire, 1643 (not 1655), its Battle of Barnet, its site, 208, 414 Baxter (F. W.) on the Bezant, 170 Elizabeth (Queen), her statue in the Royal Own blithering, 213 Seekers, religious sect, 255 Bacon (Francis), his Essay XVI. and Sir J. Baxter (Wynne E.) on Coroner of the Verge, 96 Milton Bibles, 109 Bayley (A. R.) on Sir John Arundel of Clerken- Bedford Library, works belonging to, in 1817, 'Church Historians of England,' 374 Dogs on brasses, 310 Emperor and painter, 296 Gentleman: armiger: privilegiatus, 232 May Day: May-games: May-poles, 371 Montfort (Simon de): translation of French Murder on Gad's Hill in 1661, 271 'Ralph Roister Doister,' 413 Romney (Sir W.), Lord Mayor, 238 Scottish titles conferred by Cromwell, 193 Walker (Bishop) of Derby, 277 Wall churches, 435 446 Bedfordshire epitaphs, collection of, 207 Belfast, registers c. 1677, 70, 114; glass and Bells of Quebec Cathedral, 1760, 389 Bennett (Richard), c. 1850, his ancestors, 228 Bensly (Prof. E.) on adders' fat as cure for deaf- Aristotle on education, 258, 433 Authors of quotations wanted, 136, 177, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy,' 383 Carlyle and Charles I., 371 Charades by Col. Fitzpatrick, 356 Colani and the Reformation, 33 Fires, historic, in ancient Rome, 410 Fishing in classical times, 350, 393 Graduation, early: Gilbert Burnet, John Put a beggar on horseback," 414 Quotations in Jeremy Taylor, 122 Rolle's Prick of Conscience,' 458 Smallpox and the stars, 211, 335 John Benson (Rev. J.), his sermon on Mrs. Booth, Bereford, Crevequer of, its locality, 149, 212 Bezant, 1761, the term explained, 107, 170 Bible, Authorized Version, 1611 notes on, 101; |