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to be brought through iron pipes from "the coast of Essex to Copenhagen Fields"; but the project proved a failure. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

"COOP," TO TRAP (10th S. iv. 165).-Bailey's 'Dictionary' (1733) does not give coop as a verb, but two of his nouns give the sense of a trap, or a place to be caught, viz.: "A Fish Coop, a vessel of twigs with which they catch fish in the Humber"; and "Coopertura, a thicket or covert of wood."

The derivative of the modern slang "to do a coup," that is to get the best of a deal, Bailey marks as a country phrase thus: "To Coup, to exchange or swap"; while with his mark for an old word we get " Coupe, a piece cut off or out," and "Coupegorge, a cut throat," the latter being marked as from Chaucer.

As an analogous expression to silver-cooped I might again quote Bailey: "Silver squinsey [Law Term] is when a Lawyer, bribed by the adverse party, feigns himself sick, or not able to speak." G. YARROW BALDOCK.

In the West Yorkshire dialect cop, not coop, means catch, and is used actively, as of "coppin' buzzards" (=catching butterflies or moths), or passively, as Tha 'll cop it when thi mother knaws abaht it." Is not the

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same meaning common all over the country? A policeman is very generally known as a copper" (or catcher), which is contracted (especially when used for detectives) into cop. H. SNOWDEN WARD. Hadlow, Kent.

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Cop (not coop) is a word in very general use amongst the working classes. Cop means to "catch on the hop." The common term "copper," a policeman, comes from it. HARRY HEMS.

CHARLES READE'S GRANDMOTHER (10th S. ii. 344; iv. 190).-The third Mrs. Scott-Waring (formerly Mrs. Esten) died at Kensington, a reputed centenarian, on 29 April, 1865 (Gent. Mag., June, 1865, p. 803), leaving her large fortune to the Coventry family. As Miss Harriet Bennet, she was married by banns, on 24 February, 1784, at Lower Tooting Graveney, Surrey, to James Esten, with the consent of her mother, Mrs. Anna Maria Bennet, of Bennet Street, Bath. Esten was a purser to the Quebec, but, as she was not in commission his funds were soon exhausted, and his wife went on the stage. A deed of separation was executed in July, 1789, when Mrs. Esten was acting at the Dublin Theatre, and Esten sought refuge from his creditors in France, where for a while he was sup

ported by his mother-in-law. He eventually got appointed to a ship, settled in St. Domingo," W.I., and did well. In February. 1798, he was granted leave to bring in a Bill to dissolve his marriage, but after hearing his wit nesses the House of Lords rejected it ("Lords' Journals,' xli. 471, 485-7; Sporting Mag., March, 1798).

The Miss Scott-Waring who became Mrs. Frye never acted; but her niece Harriet, the daughter of Lieut. John T. Scott-Waring, did, she having married, as his second wife, named Haddy, the son of an actor-manager at Newcastle-on-Tyne a Dissenting minister. By his first wife he had two daughters, both actresses, one of whom, as Miss Carlotta Addison, still adorns the stage. GORDON GOODWIN.

GIBBETS (10th S. iv. 229, 251).-The real Caxton Gibbet, mentioned by E. W. B., had disappeared before-perhaps, long before1849, in the early part of which year I first passed that way. What is still to be seen" is a sham one, erected some forty years ago, or less, not so much to mark the site of the original as for the convenience of those who attend a well-known "meet" of the Cambridgeshire hounds. A. N.

Two valuable papers on 'Some Norfolk Gibbets,' by Mr. W. G. Clarke, were printed in The Norwich Mercury of 27 June and 11 July, 1903.

In The Times of 15 November, 1895, appeared a note entitled 'A Unique Relic.' It contained the following paragraph :

"On the summit of the Hampshire and Berkshire range of hills, at an altitude of about a thousand feet above sea-level-the greatest elevation of the chalk in England-stands a solitary gibbet known far and wide around the country-side as 'Combe Gallows,' where a man and woman were hanged for murder on the 7th of March, 1676." Then follows an interesting story.

The last case of gibbeting took place at Leicester in 1834. The irons in which the body was suspended are still preserved. In the current issue of The Northampton Mercury (15 September) occurs the following paragraph:

"The last gibbet used in England is stored away in Leicester Gaol. The local and British Museum authorities have both failed in their efforts to obtain possession of the relic, and to a corre spondent who expressed a desire to photograph it, that he cannot accede to the application." the Secretary of State has just replied regretting See 6th S. viii. 394.

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JOHN T. PAGE

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR VERSES (10th S. iv. 229).-In reply to J. E. H. I send the poem

as taken down by my late father during his stay in South Carolina in 1862, and published in his 'Errand to the South" by Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, in that year :

I.

"All quiet along the Potomac," they say, Except now and then a stray picket

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Is shot, as he walks on his beat to and fro,
By a rifleman hid in the thicket."

'Tis nothing-a private or two now and then
Will not count in the news of the battle;
Not an officer lost-only one of the men-
Moaning out, all alone, the death rattle.

II.

All quiet along the Potomac to-night,
Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming,
As their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon,
Or the light of the watch-fires, are gleaming.
A tremulous sigh of the gentle night wind
Through the forest-leaves slowly is creeping:
While the stars up above, with their glittering eyes,
Keep guard-for the army is sleeping.

III.

There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread,
As he tramps from the rock to the fountain,
And thinks of the two on the low trundle-bed,
Far away in the cot on the mountain :

His musket falls slack-his face dark and grim
Grows gentle with memories tender,
As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep-
For their mother-may Heaven defend her!

IV.

The moon seems to shine as brightly as then,
That night when the love yet unspoken
Leaped up to his lips, and when low murmured vows
Were pledged, to be ever unbroken;

Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes,
He dashes off tears that are welling,
And gathers his gun closely up to its place,
As if to keep down the heart-swelling.

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He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree,
The footsteps are lagging and weary,

Yet onward he goes, through the broad belt of light,
Toward the shades of a wood dark and dreary,
Hark! was it the night wind that rustled the leaves?
Was't the moonlight so wondrously flashing?
It looked like a rifle-"Ha!-Mary, good-bye!"
And the life-blood is ebbing and plashing.

VI.

All quiet along the Potomac to-night,
No sound save the rush of the river;
While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead-
The picket off duty for ever!

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

There are some verses by Bret Harte something like those quoted:

An hour ago, a Star was falling.

A star? There's nothing strange in that.
No, nothing; but above the thicket,
Somehow it seemed to me that God'
Somewhere had just relieved a picket.

obiit March 4. 1864.' (See That Heathen
Chinee, and other Poems,' by F. Bret Harte,
p. 94; or The Select Works of Bret Harte,'
p. 472.)
ROBERT PIERPOINT.

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[MR. W. C. L. FLOYD also forwards a copy of the verses.]

MOTOR INDEX MARKS (10th S. ii. 468; iii. 153). The explanation of the letters on motor-cars given at the latter reference is wrong. The population of a town or county originally fixed the letter which was to designate it. London, having the largest population, is marked by A. Then came Lancashire with B, and the West Riding with C. When the single letters were exfirst letter is A it shows that the place of hausted two letters were used. Where the registration is larger than where the first letter is B. The smallest English place with its own mark is Rutland, which has the letters FP. All Irish places have I for their first letter, and Scottish ones have S, except Edinburgh and Glasgow, which are represented by the single letters S and G respectively, while Lanark has V.

The letters do not show where the owner of the car lives, but only where he registered it, and he may do this in any district he likes. If, therefore, a man lives in Devon and buys a car in Coventry which he wishes to drive home, he may register it in Coventry and have the letters DU assigned him, though the letter for Devon is T. The letters LC have lately been introduced, and refer to London County.

Private motors use white letters on a black ground. Hired motors have a coloured ground, on which are not only the ordinary registration letters, but also some others which especially mark the man who lets out the cars. A. A. K.

TESTOUT (10th S. iv. 69, 131).-The English names Tait and Tate are probably derived from teste or tête. We have also the name Head. In this connexion may be recalled the honoured name of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln 1235-53. How should it be pronounced? W. R. H.

LAMB'S PANOPTICON (10th S. iv. 127, 215).— It should be noted that there was a "Panop ticon" projected by one of the Pinchbecks in Cockspur Street, which I have mentioned in connexion with that thoroughfare, in the last of my series of articles on 'Charing Cross and its Neighbourhood' in The Gentleman's Magazine (probably November). The handbill and a long letter from Pinchbeck re

The heading is 'Relieving Guard. T. S. K. lating to it may be seen in Mr. Mason's very

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valuable 'St. Martin's Scrap-Book' in the St. Martin's Library, but I forget which volume. I think the date of this handbill is about 1780. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

PREMONSTRATENSIAN ABBEYS (10th S. iv. 169, 231). There appears to be only one more house to add to the list of Premonstratensian abbeys in order to render it complete, and that is Stirwould or Stykes wold, in Lincolnshire. Originally a Cistercian nunnery, it was suppressed 27 Hen. VIII., but refounded by the king for a prioress and nuns of the Premonstratensian Order. After two years' existence it was finally suppressed with the greater monasteries.

HERBERT C. ANDREWS.

13, Narbonne Avenue, S. W.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Pedantius: a Latin Comedy formerly acted in
Trinity College, Cambridge. Edited by G. C.
Moore Smith. (Louvain, Uystpruyst; London,
Nutt.)

Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humor. Reprinted
from the Quarto of 1601 by W. Bang and W. W.
Greg. (Same publishers.)

Walden,' a satire on Gabriel Harvey, who at the
time conjecturally assigned to the performance was
at the height of his well-earned unpopularity in
Cambridge. 'Pedantius' is ascribed by Nash, in
'Strange News,' to M. Wingfield or Winkfield, the
M. being erroneously extended to Matthew. On
the other hand, the Caius MS. of the play assigns
it to Mro Forcet, in whom our editor finds Edward
Forsett, a controversialist, and opponent of Robert
Parsons. Other claims to authorship are advanced,
but Mr. Moore Smith holds that the responsibility
belongs to Anthony Wingfield or Edward Forsett,
without deciding which. In favour of the claims of
Walter Hawkesworth may be cited the Athena
Cantabrigienses' and Mr. Gordon Goodwin, the
writer of the memoir of Hawkesworth in the
"D.N.B." A good case is made out by the latest
writer, who supplies a curious chapter of literary
history. A facsimile of the title-page of the printed
'Pedantius' is given, as is a second of the illus-
tration presenting the portraits of Pedantius and
Dromodotus.

The

No less important, in a different way, are the Shakespearian studies of Herr Koeppel, which merit the close consideration of our readers, and show a wide range of study.

In reprinting the 1601 quarto of Jonson's Every Man in his Humor' Messrs. Bang and Greg have rendered a signal service to the stage. The same play is included in the reprint of the 1616 folio of Ben Jonson, the second instalment of which is eagerly expected. We dare not assume a knowledge on the part of the general reader that a wide difference exists between the quarto and the folio. The Master of Peterhouse holds that the issue of the former was surreptitious. This may well enough be, though we should be glad to know the reasons existing for the supposition. In the quarto, now reissued, the scene of the action is Italy, and Studien über Shakespeares Wirkung auf zeitgenös- the characters subsequently known as Kno well, sische Dramatiker. Von E. Koeppel. (Same Brayne-worm, Kitely, and so forth, are Lorenzo publishers.) di Pazzi Senior, Prospero, Giulliano, &c. THESE three works constitute the latest additions dialogue is also different, passages of extreme im to the " Materialien zur Kunde des älteren Eng-portance appearing in one and being excluded from lischen Dramas" of Prof. W. Bang, to the merits the other. A prologue, which first appears in the of which we drew attention 10th S. iii. 138. As we folio, is eminently Jonsonian, and contains unmishave stated, they are issued under the sanction takable references to Shakespeare. The alteraof the University of Louvain, in which great insti- tions are, indeed, too numerous to be indicated. tution Herr Bang is Professor of English Philology. Among the many claims of the series must now be mentioned the rapidity of production, the quickness with which separate publications succeed each other setting an example to our English publishing societies. First printed in 12mo in 1631, 'Pedantius' is known to be forty yearsMr. Moore Smith will have it fifty years-earlier in date. A fairly full account of the play is given in the 'Biographia Dramatica' of Baker, Reed, and Jones, 1812, a work of more authority than is generally assigned it (see under 'Latin Plays written by English Authors,' vol. iii. p. 438). The latest editor has, however, added greatly to the information previously supplied, and has furnished a long and erudite introduction, which is sound in view and ingenious in conjecture. A reference to the first performance of Pedantius' is found in the fourteenth book of Harington's translation of the Orlando Furioso,' 1591. The performance in question took place in Trinity College, Cambridge, at what date is not known, Sir John says concerning it that he "remembers" that "the noble Earle of Essex that now is was present," a form of speech which Mr. Moore Smith rightly construes as meaning that it took place at some date no longer recent. 'Pedantius is. as Nashe tells us in his Have with you to Saffron

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It is difficult to overestimate the value of the work that Prof. Bang is accomplishing, and we once more commend to our readers a publication the like of which from our own press we do not possess. Essays in the Art of Writing. By Robert LouisStevenson. (Chatto & Windus.)

THE new volume added to the authorized edition
of the works of Stevenson consists of articles con-
tributed between 1881 and 1889 to The Fortnightly
Review, The Contemporary, The Magazine of Art,
and other periodicals. So far as these are auto-
biographical-and they are so to a great extent-
they are valuable as well as delightful. When
they are expository or instructive, they are
worthy of attention, though not invariably con-
vincing. The opening sentence in the volume,
the first article in which is 'On some Technical
Elements of Style in Literature,' is at once
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exaggerated and inaccurate.
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than to

is nothing more disenchanting to man
be shown the springs and mechanism of any art."
To this we answer that there are thousands of
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many men such a process is not disenchanting at The paper consists of further extracts from the all. Such a sentence is, in fact, an instance of the Reliquiæ Trottcosienses: or, the Gabions of the kind of verbiage that is produced when everything late Jonathan Oldbuck, Esq. as Scott called his. а man writes finds inmediate acceptance and catalogue of his Abbotsford antiquities and curioprompt remuneration. We could advance other sities. Some of the books named are neither very instances of writing equally glib. When, however, rare nor in very good condition. Durfey's 'Wit and Stevenson proceeds to talk about himself he is as Mirth' is thus announced as being in five volumes,. pleasing and attractive as ever, and the book, of instead of six, and being made up from more ediwhich this is virtually the first edition, constitutes tions than one, which grievously reduces its value. a welcome and considerable addition to Stevenson Scott's comments are, however, always delightful. literature. There is, of course, in the opening An Eighteenth-Century Episode in Viennese Court portion much judicious criticism and sapient Life' deals with the Princess Eleonore Liechtenobservation; and when we come to 'Books which stein, a singularly interesting creature, who, good have Influenced Me' and subsequent essays, in- Catholic as she was, left behind her this significant cluding My First Book,' we are in a world of utterance : "When one sees the bishops, how enchantment. Few subjects are pleasanter in them- they think only of money and lands, one must selves or constitute more suggestive reading than acknowledge that religion is only preserved by a the account of the influences to which a writer of miracle." 'An Indian Retrospect and Some Comintelligence and repute has been subject. Concern- ments,' by Ameer Ali, C.I.E., deserves close study. ing himself Stevenson is often charmingly expansive,History in Public Schools,' by C. H. K. Marten, and in some of his present contributions he is at his History Master at Eton, also repays study.best. Lovers of literature generally, and admirers Reminiscences of a Diplomatist' begin in The of Stevenson in particular, must at once give these Cornhill. They depict life at St. Petersburg near characteristic essays a home in their affections and the middle of last century, and may be read with memories, and the volume containing them a place advantage as well as interest. The Rev. W. H. on their shelves. Fitchett gives, in The Picturesque Side of Trafal-scribing with remarkable fidelity and animation gar,' one of his characteristic naval articles, dethe progress of the battle. The same ground is, to a certain extent, covered by Mr. David Hannay in his Napoleon and Nelson,' a well-conceived paper,. dealing with the expression of the Emperor conwrites of The Peninsula of Gower,' and gives a cerning his great opponent. Mr. A. G. Bradley striking account of the Culver Hole, one of the most mysterious of places on the English or Welsh the question concerning the instinct for admiring. From a College Window' (vi.) opens out beauty. Mr. Shenstone sends part iii. of his New man's, is an interesting subject capably treated. Chemistry.'' Medieval Cookery,' in The GentleWhat is said is partly drawn from The Forme of Cury,' a fourteenth-century book, first printed by Pegge. Mr. MacMichael's Charing Cross, a further instalment of which appears, is, we are glad to hear, to be reprinted. In A Chat about Snuff a story often ascribed to Foote is mistold. In 'The Realm of Poetry' the "up-to-date compiler" is credited with spoiling the child's song of "Hey diddle-diddle." The compiler in question is oral repetition. We remember for sixty years the version now branded as modern.-The last number is issued of Longman's. For this we are sorry. Apart from Mr. Lang's lucubrations, amusing or erudite, which we have always been glad to hail, the general contributions have been admirably selected. Its disappearance is a sign of the times. Magazines themselves took the place of more solid literature, and are now, in turn, being supplanted by something more trivial and ephemeral than themselves. If we may read and interpret what we see, other non-illustrated magazines will in time follow in the wake, and the field will be left to the reviews and the cheap illustrated periodicals which appeal to the least exigent palates. Salut d'adieu! Our own memory can count many magazines, from Fraser and Douglas Jerrold's, which have anticipated by a long period the disappearance of Longman's.—Iu addition to fiction, which continues its speciality, The Idler has a good description of Burford; A Scramble on High Mountains,' by E. Elliot Stock; and 'The Idler's Club.'

The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs opens with an essay by Prof. C. J. Holmes on The Use of Japanese Art to Modern Europe.' Little but good can come, Prof. Holmes thinks, to Europeans, with their inborn hold on facts, from the study of the art of the East, with "its suggestiveness, its abstraction, its feeling for space and pigment and colour, and, above all, its never-failing sense of nature as a living organism." A contribution meritorious in itself receives enhanced value from the illustrations. Gabriel Metsu's Letter Reader' constitutes a fine frontispiece. Part iii. of the 'Life of a Dutch Artist in the Seventeenth Century' maintains the high level of interest and value already reached. Plate i. by Van Mieris the elder, showing a handsome and gallant artist painting a lady, is very effective. Some Notes on Medieval Palermo,' article iv. on Ecclesiastical Dress in Art,' and a newly discovered 'Altarpiece by Alessio Baldovinetti,' are all excellent.

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IN The Fortnightly appears the second and concluding portion of Mr. W. L. Courtney's tribute to Christopher Marlowe. The essayist notes many interesting points of resemblance between Marlowe and Shakespeare, and quotes many gracious things said concerning the "dead shepherd by his contemporaries and successors. To these might conceivably be added the utterances of Thomas Heywood and Thomas Nashe. Mr. Minchin writes on Sir Thomas Browne and his family, supplying many interesting passages from the Urn Burial, the Religio Medici,' and other works. We wonder whether it is by accident or design that the name of Coryate appears as Coryot, and that the famous Boston "Stump" is called "Tump." We do not echo Mr. Findon's 'Plea for the Religious Drama,' nor accept some of the opinions expressed. We read with pleasure Mr. Macdonald's' French Life and the French Stage,' and accompany Miss Harriet Munroe to the pagan festival described as the Snake Dance. -Mrs. Maxwell Scott, of Abbotsford, writes in The Nineteenth Century on 'Sir Walter Scott on his "Gabions." "Gabions are volumes not prized so much for the value of their contents as because the individual copy is in some respects unique.

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BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-OCTOBER. MR. THOMAS BAKER has a Special Clearance Catalogue. Among the items we note the Sixtine Bible, 107. 15s. ; works of Albertus Magnus, Paris, 1890, 36 vols., 4to, 407.; Duns Scotus, of the same date, 387.; Skeat's Chaucer,' 47.; and Creighton's "History of the Papacy,' 51. 15s. There are also a number of items under Jesuits.

Catalogue No. CIII. of Mr. B. H. Blackwell, of Oxford, is devoted to Educational Books, secondhand and new. We have received Part I., Classical Literature.

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Messrs. Browne & Browne, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, have the first folio edition of Don Quixote' in English, 1652, 51. 5s.; a first edition of Dickens's Sketches of Young Ladies,' 1837, 47.; a complete set of Bohn's Extra Series, 31. 10s.; a set of The Illustrated London News, 1842-98, 107.; Jesse's Literary and Historical Memorials of London, the two series, 1847-50, 61. 12s.: Kirby's Eccentric Museum,' 1820, 37. 10s.; Old Wedgwood,' by Rathbone, 1893-8, 97. 15s. (only 200 copies of this were printed); Knight's Gallery of Portraits,' 1833, 423. Rowlandson's Westminster Election,' 1784, 31. 38.; and the forty-eight-volume edition of Waverley, 1829-32, 41. 10s. The third edition of Montaigne, small folio, original calf, 1632, is 107. This copy has the rare leaf before title "To the beholder of this title." Under Coloured Plates is The New Bon Ton Magazine, 1818-21, marked very rare, 57, There is a large-paper set of Books about Books,' 1893, 77. 10s. Under America is a copy of The Poems of Philip Freneau,' first edition, very rare, Philadelphia, 1786, 51. 5s. There are also items of special interest relating to Newcastle.

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Mr. Thomas Carver, of Hereford, sends list No.37, containing a large number of works under Hereford. These include a choice and complete copy of Duncumb's Herefordshire,' the price of the five handsome volumes, royal 4to, being 15. Among general items are the édition de luxe of Kingsley's Works,' 97. 19s. 6d. ; the large-paper edition of Boswell, with introduction by Mr. Austin Dobson, 41. 4s.; Dixon's Game Birds, 27. 17s. 6d.; Cripps's Old English Plate,' 15s. 6d.; English Minstrelsie,' edited by Baring-Gould, 11. 7s. 6d.; Cambrian Minstrelsie, edited by Dr. Parry, 11.; The Decameron.' Bullen, 1903, 35s.; Lamb's Works,' edited by E. V. Lucas, 27.; Meredith's Tale of Chloe,' &c., 1894, 30s.; and Milton's Paradise Lost,' illustrated by Strang, 21. 12s. 6d. There are items on Free Trade and medical works.

Mr. Carver also issues an Educational Catalogue containing over 1,700 items to select from.

Messrs. Galloway & Porter, of Cambridge, send Catalogue No. 28, which contains many items under Classics, Mathematics, and Theology, as well as under Cambridge. There are also some shilling volumes and works in general literature at higher prices.

Mr. Charles Higham's Michaelmas Catalogue includes recent purchases of second-hand theological works, also some new books at reduced prices. Among these we note a complete set of The Ancestor, 12 vols., 21. 2s. ; also 'The Church of our Fathers," 4 vols., 27. 88.

The catalogue of Mr. John Hitchman, of Birmingham, contains a complete copy of Duncumb's 'Herefordshire,' 107. 10s.; Shaw's Antiquities of Staffordshire,' 147. 148.; Smith's Collectanea

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Antiqua,' 7 vols., 61. 6s. Dixon's Her Majesty's Tower,' 28s.; Kingsley's Life and Works,' édition de luxe, 61. 6s.; Cheshire Ballads,' 35s.: Shropshire Archæological Society's Transactions, 10. 10s.; Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum,' 1652, 5. 5s.; Burlington Fine-Arts Club Exhibition of Bookbindings, 10. 10s.; Humphreys's Art of Printing,' 27. 2s.; Robson's 'Scenery of the Grampian Mountains,' 1819, 37. 10s.; and Walpole's Letters,' Peter Cunningham's edition, 57. 10s.

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Mr. Walter T. Spencer's new catalogue of over two thousand items abounds in first editions. These include Ainsworth, 92 vols., 801.; Ingoldsby, 157. 15s.; Bewick's Birds,' 81. 8s.; 'Lorna Doone,' 20%.; Mrs. Browning's Prometheus Bound,' also "The Seraphim,' in one volume, 187. 18s.; Robert Browning's 'Paracelsus,' 21. 10s., Strafford,' 31. 12s. 6d.. and Ferishtah's Fancies, 11. 11s 'Alice in Wonderland.' in French, 61. 6s.; and Olney Hymns,' 57. 5s. Under Dickens is a long list, comprising 'The Village Coquettes,' 147. 14; Öliver Twist,' 57.5s.; Christmas Carol, '87. Ss. ; and Martin Chuzzlewit, 71. 78. Beaconsfield's novels, 36 vols., are 26.; Life in London,' 177. 177.; Adam Bede, 37. 18s. 6d.; Ferrier's Marriage,' 2., and 'The Lairds of Fife, 31. George Meredith's Poems,' 187. 187. Humphry Clinker, 51. 5s.; and Sheridan's Critic, 31. 3s. Mr. Spencer has under Shakspeare a Second Folio in a Bedford binding, 1157. ; and under Swinburne Cleopatra, Hotten, 1866, S. 8s. There is a long list under Alken, including Real Life in London,' in parts, uncut, 301. The catalogue is rich in Cruikshanks and in coloured plates.

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Notices to Correspondents.

We must call special attention to the following notices :

ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith.

WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. P. M. ("Tithe Barns ").-See 3rd S. vii.; 8th S. ii., iii.; 9th S. vi.

W. HARTE ("Titian's 'Venus with Mirror'").Your query was inserted ante, p. 127.

H. R. D. ANDERS, Jena ("King John poisoned by a Toad").-Your reply was printed ante, p. 256. B. L. MCQUILLIN, T. MATHEWSON, H. K. ST. J. S. -Forwarded.

NORTHUMBRIAN (" Reversion of Seeds and Fruits to Original Type").-Two replies were printed at 10th S. ii. 153.

E. S. DODGSON ("Miching mallicho "). - Shall appear with the next Shakespeariana.

CORRIGENDA.-P. 272, col. 2, 1. 2, for ท read ท์:

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