The name was probably altered from the King's" to the Queen's Bagnio in compliment to Queen Anne. The above advertisement continues : "If any Persons desire to be cupp'd at their own House, he (ie., Henry Ayme] will wait on them himself, he having had the Honour to give a general Satisfaction to the Nobility in the Performance of that Art, which he has acquired to a Nicety by a long and great Practise. Note, that his Way of cupping is the very same as was us'd by the late Mr. Verdier deceas'd.' Verdier was cupper to Queen Anne. See further concerning London bagnios The Antiquary, June, 1905, pp. 226-7. 6, Elgin Court. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. MR. HODGKIN will find in W. Kirkby's 'Evolution of Artificial Mineral Waters, Manchester, 1902, pp. 24-5, some account of the above institution, which was founded upon an invention of Sir William Jennings, patented in 1678 (Letter Patent No. 200, Old Law Series). In 1683 an account of the institution was given by Dr. S. Haworth in A Description of the Duke's Bagnio and of the Mineral Bath and new Spaw thereunto belonging,' London, 8vo (B.M. 233, a. 40). E. WYNDHAM HULME. Clare, Sevenoaks. PLESHEY FORTIFICATIONS (10th S. iv. 48). Gough's History and Antiquities of Pleshey' (1803), a quarto book of 195 pages, with an appendix of 112 pages and a full index, is the most important monograph on the historic castle of Pleshey. The book contains some fine plates and a plan of the defensive works. The bridge is shown, possessing a brick gateway at its lower side. This is not now existing, but the bridge itself is in fair condition, and I see no proof that it was not in existence in the days of the murdered Duke of Gloucester, the end of the fourteenth century. Of course, ROBINIA will find much about Pleshey in Morant and other writers on Essex, but the only recent description of the earthworks was written by me (see "Victoria County History,' vol. i. p. 298). I. CHALKLEY GOULD. ROBINIA will find much information and some differences of opinion about the fortifications at Pleshey (or Plaisseis), both as to their prehistoric and later construction, in Morant's Essex,' ii. 451; Wright's Essex,' ii. 255; Salmon's Essex,' 226; Victoria History of Essex' (with plan), i. 297-9; "Excursions in Essex,' ii. 79; Gough's Camden's Britannia,' ii. 133; Essex Naturalist, x. 152; Essex Arch. Soc. Trans., New Series, Some particulars of the castle at Pleshey and its remains, as also a reference to the bridge, will be found at 7th S. x. 68, 156, 412. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. "The entrance to the keep is from the west over a venerable brick bridge of one lofty pointed arch, probably a work of the sixteenth century" (Camden's 'Britannia,' enlarged by Richard Gough, F.A.S., 1789, vol. ii. p. 54, c. 2). There is a beautiful description of this venerable relic in Gough's introduction to the History and Antiquities Pleshy,' copies of which were to be obtained, of Pleshey.' See also 'A Short Account of in 1885, of Mr. George Bohannan, at the "White Horse," Pleshy (this was printed in 1885); 'Topographical and Statistical Deby John Dutton, Tindal Street, Chelmsford, scription of Essex,' by Geo. Alex. Cooke, PP. 139-40; and Dugdale's 'British Traveller,' 1819, vol. ii. pp. 397-8. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL. CHARLEMAGNE'S ROMAN ANCESTORS (10th S. iii. 369, 432).-Perhaps the book which ASTARTE is inquiring about is 'Genealogical Tables,' by William Betham, London, 1795. Table 249 gives the 'Sicambrian, Kings, and Kings of the West Franks, from whom the Kings of France are descended.' The first is Antenor, King of the Cimmerians, A.M. 3561, B.C. 443. Table 250 gives the Kings of France, Merovingian, Carolinian, Capetingian, Velesian, Bourbonian.' Table 251 gives the Merovingian Kings of France.' Table 252 gives 'The Ancestors of the Carolingian Kings of France.' Table 253 gives the Carolingian Kings of France.' Tables 254 and 255 give the Capetingian Kings of France.' ROBERT PIERPOINT. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. The Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker, sometime and associates, and views of spots connected with its birth and ministrations, abound. Very early in its career N. & Q.' counted him among its contributors. He complains, however, of the treatment he received from the originator and first editor, and is not very largely represented in its Similar annoyances seem to have been caused him in other periodicals, and may be regarded as part of the rather morbid self-assertiveness that seemed to impress him with the notion that in treating a subject he acquired a vested interest in it, and might warn off trespassers. An agreeable feature in Hawker is his fondness for animals. In one of his letters he writes: “The mice are actually at play on my table while I write." What is said (p. 96) of Disraeli, Thiers, and Napoleon is, we fancy, inaccurate. It is news to us that Hawker at one time took opium. This may account for his remarkable fits of depression. It is a pleasant story that when a scarecrow in Hawker's clothes was put up the birds took it for him and came to it. What are we to say about Hawker's grave assertion that at an indicated spot he had seen mermaids? (See p. 167.) Now and then the biographer puts off his attitude of reverence and becomes outspoken. On p. 204 he wrote: "The fact is that in his composition there was something of the Grand Inquisitor. In the discomfiture of heresy he put aside his human and personal sympathies, and regarded opposition to himself as an offence against the Almighty through an earthly representative." It is to be feared that a view of the kind was not confined to religious heresy. Again, Mr. Byles says Hawker was sometimes unreasonable on the question of originality. Dealing with his own faults, Hawker says, with no exaggerated self-depreciation (p. 456): "I know that I am dogmatic, proud, and mysterious." Again, with strange self-oblivion, he says (p. 471) that he does not sympathize with satirical writings: "There is too much in our natures to sadden and subdue, and I do not like that men should mock men.' On the question of his claim on immortality the biographer says (p. 651), "He never did himself justice.' That estimate, with all it implies, we accept. But the book is good, and has strong claim on our readers. THE lives of Hawker by the Rev. Sabine Baring-pages. Gould and Dr. F. G. Lee, the former especially, are largely responsible for the estimate generally formed concerning the eccentric and interesting Vicar of Morwenstow. Written as these are by men who, while approaching and regarding him from different points, are in close sympathy with him, they might have been regarded as adequate in the case of one whose claims upon enduring consideration were even greater than those of the author of Records of the Western Shore,' 'Cornish Ballads, and other Poems,' and 'Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall.' Dr. Lee was in sympathy with Hawker's liturgical views and shared his vehemence of controversial utterance, while Mr. Baring-Gould was as ardent a student as his subject of folk superstition, lore, and legend. While the account of the latter, however, has won general acceptance, and been more than once reprinted, and while it is the "standard biography," if the use in this case of such a phrase can be justified, it failed to satisfy family exigences, was regarded as unauthorized, and was branded by Mrs. Hawker, in The Athenæum of 8 September, 1876, as "full of misstatements, and written by one whose personal knowledge of Mr. Hawker was scarcely that of a mere acquaintance." The work now issued belongs to another category. Occupying as it does seven hundred pages, it must be taken as adequate; and written as it is by an affectionate and admiring son-in-law, with access to all family documents and traditions, aided by very many of those who came into closest association with Hawker, and were most impressed by his fervent and assertive individuality, it fulfils all requirements, and may well, in its way, be accepted as final. When perused by one who knew Hawker best by favour-one another, all being in God's image and brother able report, and was prepared to applaud and expectant of delight, it leaves a curious impression. Portions of it reveal the figure, eccentric and in part heroic, we expected to see. The general tone of Hawker's utterances is, however, querulous and not seldom aggressive. He has a morbid sensitiveness and a regrettable amount of literary vanity. We like him best in his periods of action, when his efforts to rescue those hurled upon that stormiest of coasts are indeed heroic; and we admire the ardent and mystical piety which in his case, as in that of many of his reverend compeers, landed him in the Roman Catholic Church. His wit, on which Mr. Byles insists, approaches dangerously near rudeness or want of feeling. To some extent, then, the revelation of the man is to us disappointing. The same may not, however, be said of the book, which gives a faithful picture of the vicar and his environment, is saturated with atmosphere, and is an ideal companion for the holiday jaunt now imminent. Its illustrations constitute an eminently attractive feature, and Lord Carlisle's coloured portrait of Hawker, which serves as frontispiece, gives the best idea accessible of the subject of the book. Lord Carlisle supplies another striking portrait, while other designs present him at various periods, from his undergraduate days to within a very short time of his death. Portraits of his parents MR. R. J. WALKER'S version of Septem Psalmi Pænitentiales in Latin elegiacs, sold by Samuel Bewsher, St. Paul's School, is an admirable exercise of scholarship, one, indeed, of exceptional writer is, we think, perfectly justified in departing grace. In Christian epitaphs and sacred verse a from the best models as much as Prudentius, for instance, does from the Virgilian style, and in putting these "apples of gold in pictures of silver" Latin. But Mr. Walker, like the best modern elegance of Ovid, the grace of Virgil, in such a composers, does more. He has the fluency and line as Me, quam longa dies, inimici tristibus urgent. The whole is natural enough to be free of Macaulay's sneer about Latin verse as "a sickly exotic." Such work is the fine flower of scholarship, a delight for which, alas! few have time, but which can only be understood, as Mr. Walker says in his introductory Latin lines, by those who have practised a like art themselves. The present reviewer has done so for many years in the intervals of a busy life, and found surprising solace in an exercise which is, for one thing, a touchstone of the amount of thought and poetry in the original. Mr. Walker's versions are to be ranked with the best of modern Oxford, such as Mr. H. W. Greene's wonderful elegiac version of FitzGerald's Omar'; and when the next edition of the 'Anthologia Oxoniensis' appears, we shall expect to see two, at least, of his translations among the Carmina Sacra.' · siennes, in whom the author finds a fusion of racial types.-In The National Review the article of most literary interest is that of the Hon. Maurice Baring, entitled Racine.' Englishmen who appreciate Racine are as rare as Frenchmen who comprehend Milton. We are not quite of accord with Mr. Baring as to the secret of Racine's greatness; but we admit the beauty of his selection, and we warmly approve ROMNEY'S lovely 'Study for the Egremont Family not be with Shakespeare, and Dante, and Beethoven; his closing utterance concerning Racine: "He may Piece' forms the frontispiece to The Burlington. A but he is with Praxiteles, with Virgil, and Mozart." portrait of Pietro Aretino, from the Chigi Palace, In 'Some Old School-Books,' Miss Catherine Dodd now in the possession of Messrs. Colnaghi, has treats cleverly a fresh and an interesting subject. extraordinary interest both pictorial and literary.Is Scotland Decadent? by Malagrowther It is a remarkable work of Titian, and gives an appallingly sensual portrait of the author of the 'Sonnetti Lussuriosi,' the man whom Ariosto calls "Il flagello dei principi, il divin Pietro Aretino." A movement, to which we wish success, is on foot to secure this for our national collection. In Some Florentine Woodcuts' Mr. G. T. Clough has hit on a good subject. Very little is known concerning Florentine work of the kind. Mr. Lionel Cust's eighth article on 'Pictures in the Royal Collection' is of great excellence. THE Message of Buddhism to the Western World,' which Mr. W. S. Lilly contributes to The Fortnightly, is likely to create some stir. Mr. Lilly is naturally auxious to guard against possible misapprehension, and to impress on his readers that he goes no further than pointing out the "immeasurable superiority possessed by Buddhism, in virtue of its ethics, over the antitheistic system of contemporary Europe." A curious, but not wholly satisfactory article is sent by Mr. Charles J. Norris on First Love in Poetry.' Mr. W. H. Mallock answers the 'Two Attacks on Science, Clerical and Philosophical, and Mr. T. H. S. Escott chronicles, and in part deplores, The Extinction of Egeria.' Mr. Macdonald's French Life and the French Stage' deals at considerable length with Les Ventres Dorés' at the Odéon, and, more briefly, with Le Duel' at the Comédie Française, which we think the more original piece. Marriage and Divorce in America' supplies many striking facts which may with advantage be studied. So short are the separate items in Mr. Lawler-Wilson's Causerie on Current Continental Literature' we feel that the essay scarcely deserves its title. We can express no great delight on the appearance of a contribution such as The Financial Outlook.' Lady Paget sends to The Nineteenth Century, under the title of Vanishing Vienna, a readable, picturesque, and pleasing account of life in the capital of AustroHungary. An article better in its class we do not recall. Mr. Dominick Daly supplies a short account of Madame Tallien, the wife of, among others, the great Conventionnel, to whose influence over her second husband were due the death of Robespierre and the end of the Reign of Terror. Writing on Impressional Drama,' Lady Archibald Campbell refers to her well-remembered pastoral plays at Cannizzaro. Mr. Norman Pearson writes on The Macaronis, a subject which would repay more elaborate and exhaustive treatment; Mr. William Warrand Carlile opens out an interesting branch of study in The Origin of Money from Ornament'; Mr. T. H. Weir describes An Autumin Wandering in Morocco'; and Mr. Frederick Wedmore 'Some French and English Painting,' The Camargue,' by Mr. David H. Wilson, deals, of ourse, with the beauty of the much-discussed Arlé Tweed. lent. · whether Sir Mungo or Malachi is not denoted · WE hear with regret of the death, on Sunday last, in his eighty-sixth year, of Mr. Henry Sotheran, the head of the spirited firm of book-sellers and publishers in Piccadilly and the Strand.. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-AUGUST. MESSRS. BROWNE & BROWNE, of Newcastle, have recent purchases, principally from private libraries. These include Burns's Letters to Clarinda,' very rare, Philadelphia, 1809, 10.; David Cox's Art of Landscape Painting,' 1823. 5.; the first edition of The Greville Memoirs,' 4/. 4s. There are interest. ing items under Bewick, including first editions of Land and Water Birds,' 1804-5. 127. 12s., and 'British Birds,' Newcastle, 1797-1804, 217. Both of these are very rare. Under Cruikshank are 'Life in London,' 6., and The Battle of Waterloo,' a choice copy, 201. The rare first issue of "The Naturalists' Library," 34 vols., 1834, is 77. Under Shelley is an uncut copy of the rare first edition of Posthumous Poems, 1824, 97. A first issue of Vanity Fair' is 428. There are also a number of county histories and local books. Mr. Bertram Dobell, among books recently purchased, has Blake's Book of Thel,' 1789, 907.; a 'Hudibras,' 1678, 91. 9s.; and some rare tracts that belonged to Dr. Donne, 167. 16s. A first edition of 'Gulliver' is priced 187. 18s. Included in the catalogue are books from the library of Mr. Joseph Knight, comprising rare old plays, memoirs, and works by the best-known English and French writers from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth. Mr. Knight had many choice specimens of fore-edge painting, and Mr. Dobell was so fortunate as to secure a fine example of Edwards's work. Messrs. George's Sons, of Bristol, in their new list, No. 284, have the remaining portion of the library of Frederick W. Newman. Many of the books contain autograph notes. The collection is very characteristic. Mr. George Gregory opens Nos. 164 and 165 of his new Bath Book Catalogue with the proverb He that loveth a book shall never lack a faithful friend." We give a few of the items offered: a magnificent copy of the Cranmer Bible, 35l.; 'British Gallery of Contemporary Portraits,' 1822. 61. 6s.; Britton's 'Bath Abbey Church,' 47. Works On the Crimea include Todleben's Défense de Sébastopol,' 20%. Lavater's Physiognomy' is priced 4l. 48. Under Speeches is a choice collection, 54 vols., 1810-54, 327. There is a long list of periodicals, and a modern library of American and Canadian history. · Mr. Charles Higham has a fresh catalogue of theological books, including Mason's Spiritual Songs. 1693, very rare, 17. 10s. ; a nice fresh copy of The Pulpit Commentary,' 48 vols., 1881-99, 107. 10s. Döllinger's Gentile and the Jew in the Courts of the Temple of Christ,' 27. 17s. 6d. Milman's his tories, 15 vols., 31. 3s.; and a number of works on missions. Mr. John Jeffery, of City Road, has a very varied list of books and pamphlets. Messrs. George T. Juckes & Co., of Birmingham, send us four short lists. No. 161 contains Jaggard's reprint of the First Folio, 1807, 31. 38. ; a cheap set of The Cornhill to 1884, 21. 58.; Yarrell's' Birds,' 21. 178. 6d. Browning's 'Men and Women,' first edition, 1855, scarce, 30s.; The Secret History of the Calves-Head Club,' 1705, 5s.; The Eccentric Mirror,' 1806-7, 4 vols., 2. 2s.; and Lavater's Essays,' 1837, 21. Under John Leech is The Month, 1851, scarce, 30s. The second edition of Milton, 1673, is 47. 10s. ; and a first edition of the poem 'Richmond Hill, 1807, 10s. 6d. There is a handsome copy of The Faerie Queene,' with Crane's illustrations and Wise's bibliography, 1897, 4l. (published at 107. 158. net). A set of Chalmers's British Essayists,' 45 vols., is marked 27. 10s.. List 162 has a copy of Ackermann's 'London,' 1808-10, 207. an édition de luxe of La Fontaine, Paris, 1795, 187. 18s.; Audsley's Arts of Japan,' 1882, 51. 5s. ; Britton and Brayley's England and Wales,' 25s. for the 26 vols.; Dickens's 'Christmas Books,'5 vols.,. all first editions, 31. 39.; and a set of The Gentle man's Magazine, 1731-1843, 71. 7s. There are also many items of interest in No. 163. Mr. Alexander Macphail, of Edinburgh, has 'Criminal Trials in Scotland, 1487 to 1624,' rare, 51. 5s.; also a Collection of Acts of Parliament dealing with the Civil War in Scotland,' 37. 3s. Under Edinburgh we find Kay's 'Portraits, '4l. 17s. 6d. Under both Highlands and Jacobite are a number of works of interest. A copy of the rare fourth edition of Paradise Lost,' 1688, is priced 45s. There are a number of cheap novels for summer reading. · Part II. of Messrs. Maggs Brothers' List contains. a fine set of Macaulay, 10. 10s. ; library editions of Motley, 11 vols., 12.; Munden's Memoirs,' by his Son, extra illustrated, 1844, 167. 16s.; a complete series of "Musical Biography," 38 vols., 187. 18s.; a collection of tracts in French relating to Napoleon, Louis XVIII., &c., 23 vols., 10. 10s.; a collection of naval memoirs, 29 vols., 187. 10s. A long list under Shakespeare includes the Halliwell edition, 881. Messrs. Meehan, of Bath, have first editions of Byron and of Dickens, a separate list of which can. be obtained. Bernard Shaw's works include An. Unsocial Socialist,' price 8s. 6d., and Love among the Artists,' at the same price. Under Tennyson is the second edition of In Memoriam,' Moxon, 1850, 12s. 6d. There are a large number of works. on Russia, and also some interesting Book-plates. Messrs. James Rimell & Son have a good miscel-laneous list. There is an interesting collection of ten rare tracts relating to the American Revolution,. 1780, &c., Sl. 18s. 6d. Other items include Aubrey's rare'' Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey, E. Curll, 1719, 137.; The Gentleman's Recreation,' by Richard Blome, 1686. 12. 12s.; Bohn's extra volumes, 37. 7. ; the first London-printed edition of Burns, 1787, 47.; a collection of 77 large coloured caricatures, 1784-1829, from Sir William Fraser's collection, 107. 15s.; Daniell's Voyage round Great Britain,' 227. 10s.; and the very rare first edition of 'Adonais,' Cambridge, 1829, 31. 3s. There are interesting items under Cruikshank, and a long list of works on the Drama, including Genest's English Stage,' 1832, 97.; Prynne's Player's Scourge,' 1633, 61. ; and a collection of 500 Covent Garden Playbills, 1813-15, 47l. 178. 6d. Mr. James Roche has an unpublished manuscript by Charles Westmacott, author of The English. Spy'-Beau Brummell: the True History of this Man of Fashion,' 20 guineas. Other items includea fine tall copy of Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare,' 1807, 30 guineas. The catalogue comprises a set of eight plates by Cruikshank, Going to a Fight,' 1819, rare, 127. 12s.; a choice selection from the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery; also Arundel Society's publications. Recent purchases include the rare first edition of Ainsworth's 'Crichton," 1837, 67. 18s. 6d.; a beautiful copy of the Ter centenary edition of The Complete Angler,' Boswell and James Stuart, in which the former 127. 12s.; 'Hudibras,' with Gray's annotations, was fatally wounded. There are a number of items 1819-27, rare, 57. 10s.; and Hogarth's 'Complete under Ruskin, America, Early Railways, Music, Works,' 1822, 77. 10s. The last is marked a Law Books, &c. bargain." An extra-illustrated copy of Austin Dobson's Four Frenchwomen' is priced 29 guineas. There are also very fine books of portraits, collections of tracts and trials, &c. Mr. A. Russell Smith has a Catalogue of Engraved Portraits at very low prices. To show how varied the list is, we may mention that the portraits include Mrs. Abington, Addison, Marshal Blücher, Byron, Chaucer, Cruikshank, Nancy Dawson, Dickens reading to his daughters, Garrick, Miss Glover, Miss Glyn, John Angel James, the Rev. Wm. Jay, of Bath, and Mrs. Siddons. Although reference is made in another page to the death of Mr. Sotheran, we cannot pass on to notice the new catalogue of the firm without an expression of deep regret at the death of our old and esteemed friend. He was of the kindliest and most genial disposition, full of brightness, and as long as he remained in the firm one of the most active and energetic men in the bookselling world. Mr. Sotheran retired at the end of June, 1893, when Mr. Henry Cecil Sotheran succeeded his father. An excellent likeness of Mr. Sotheran appeared in The Publishers' Circular of 8 July, 1893. 66 Messrs. Sotheran open their Mid-monthly List with two unique relics. Tennyson's own copy of the first edition of his 'Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington' contains copious additions and alterations in his autograph, also twenty lines in Lady Tennyson's hand on an inserted slip, and a letter from Moxon offering him 2007. for an edition of 10,000. The copy is in the original wrapper, uncut, enclosed in a levant morocco pull-off" case by Riviere. The price is 120. The second relic is the first draft of the Dedication to the Queen of his Poems published in 1853. The price of this is 1257. Under America is a coloured copy of Kingsborough's rare work, 'The Antiquities of Mexico,' 105. A choice set of Archæological Reports is 91. 9s. In a list of rare Bibles we find the Ashburnham copy of the London Polyglott, 1657-69, 35l.; first edition of Cromwell's Bible, 36/.; and the Coverdale, 240/. The whole catalogue is full of important items. We can mention only a few more: Curtis's 'Flora Londinensis,' 337.: Bunyan's last work, 'The Water of Life,' 1688, 27. 2s.; an illustrated copy of Dyer's Cambridge,' 1814, 77. 10s. ; a genuine and perfect Chronicon Nurembergense,' 1493, copy of the 28. 10s.; and a set of the Chetham Society's publications, 97. 98. There are a number of Commonwealth and Revolution books; and under Edward FitzGerald are two relics: his will, four pages, large folio, 4 September, 1858, wholly in his handwriting, 847.; and his copy, with autograph, of Tucker's Pocket Dictionary of English and Persian,' 217. Mr. James Thin, of Edinburgh, has in his new list a complete set of the Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1638-1800,' 10. 10s. Grote's 'Greece,' the scarce 1872 edition, 57.; the First, the Second, and the Oriental Series of the Palæographical Society, 1873-94, 30%.; Perkins's Tuscan Sculptors,' 31. 3s.; a spotless copy of the Engravings from the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Graves, 95 guineas: a set of The Witness, 1840-51, S. 8s.; also of The Beacon, 1821, 15s. The latter paper was very scurrilous, and one of its articles was the cause of the duel between Sir Alex. The catalogue of Mr. Thorp, of St. Martin's Lane, includes among black-letter books A New Booke of Destillatyon of Waters,' 1559, 41. 4s. Mr. Swinburne's Rosamund,' with autograph poem, is 67. 68. There are also a number of other first editions of Weethe poet, including 'The Heptalogia,' 37. 3s. ver's 'Funeral Monuments,' 1767, is 18s. There are a number of books relating to the county of Kent. These include Berry's Pedigrees,' 1830. 77. 10s. ; and Boys's' History of Sandwich,' 1792, 57. 10s. We Of Mr. Thorp's Reading Catalogue, containing 320 pages and 7,426 items, The Athenæum of 22 July said: "It is not easy to imagine the specialist who will fail to find something in it of interest. fully endorse this. There are but few rarities, as this is a clearance catalogue, so that most of the books are well within the reach of the average collector. Messrs. Henry Young & Sons, of Liverpool, have a fine copy of the New Testament of Erasmus, very rare, price 157. 15s.; a tall copy of Chaucer, 1687, 107. 10s.; Dugdale's English Laws,' 1666, 5l. 5s.; Madame Sévigné's letters, Paris, 81. 8s.; Grose's Antiquities,' 67. 6s.; Turner and Dunkarton's Historical Portraits,' 12. 12s.; Humphreys's 'Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages,' 1849, 127. 12s. ; Roby's 'Lancashire,' 97. 9s.; Westall and Martin's engravings to Milton, 1794-1827, 37. 10s.; the first edition of Owen Jones's Ornamental Design, 1856, 97. 10s.; and a proof copy of Rogers's Italy," 57. 15s. 6d. The last contains a holograph note from the author to Mrs. Jameson, inviting her to one of his famous breakfasts. There is also much of interest under Rowlandson, English Scenery, Engraved Views, &c. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. To secure insertion of communications correspondents must observe the following rules. Let each note, query, or reply be written on a separate such address as he wishes to appear. When answerslip of paper, with the signature of the writer and ing queries, or making notes with regard to previous entries in the paper, contributors are requested to put in parentheses, immediately after the exact heading, the series, volume, and page or pages to Correspondents who repeat which they refer. queries are requested to head the second communication "Duplicate." D. K. T. 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