Miss Marta it is also the most expensive, of its line. Very few are the names of notable persons which one may reasonably expect to find here and will search for in vain. Before it takes its stand upon the shelf of reference books, as a mere convenience, it is not unworthy to be treated for a casual hour as a real book. It is rather pleasant to survey so huge and solid a phalanx of individuals who, in one way or another, count-to ascertain by what claims each is of the company-and to observe among them sundry amusing evidences of "human nature." These last come out most markedly in the entries under Recreation,' where," A large number of papers prefer to use the to mention but two instances we noted, we have a distinguished man, now, we hope, not entirely deprived of leisure, confiding to the world the truly melancholy fact that, from the age of 14 to that of 27 years, he worked eighteen hours a day without any holidays; and a lady whose work attacks the profoundest subjects, opening up to us the illuminating fact that her recreations are reading, gardening, walking, and talking to cats." Who's Who Year Book, 1914-15. (A. & C. THE object of this book, first and foremost, is to C. no of the question in other countries. The Antiquary for December (Elliot Stock) has among its contents the conclusion of Lieut.-Col. Cavenagh's articles on the South Foreland Lighthouses. He states that "the lighthouses built by Sir John Meldrum were probably of timber and plaster, on the top a lantern in which was [sic] stuck a few candles; and the first lighthousekeeper of whom we know the name is Edward Beane, who writes to the Navy Commissioners in 1652-3 that he will observe their orders as to the keeping the lights, as formerly, for the advantage of the fleet." Dr. Cox writes on Gairdner's Lollardy and the Reformation in England.' 'Were European Palæoliths sometimes Ground? forms the subject of an illustrated article by cludes his historical investigation on Dr. Nuttall. The Rev. J. B. McGovern conThe Popes of Dante's "Divina Commedia." Mr. McGovern believes that Dante made puppets of such historical personages as suited his poetical designs. "Hence he had no need of those whom he had consciously omitted; no scruple would have deterred him from conferring additional notoriety upon them had the need existed. And those he did limn upon his mighty canvas he painted with no doubtful colouring, although in some instances the mixing of his pigments was not wrought with that careful adherence to discrimination and truthfulness which literature, equally with painting, demands of a skilful and impartial artist.' MISS G. E. MITTON, the careful editor of this Year-Book, is quite right in saying that woman who takes any part in Public or Social life can afford to do without it." The plan of the work is excellent, and is so arranged that any subject upon which information is sought can be found at once. Each is treated by an expert, and these number forty-seven, all being women with the exception of the writer of the article Catholic Information,' this being by Mgr. IN The Imprint for November 27th Mr. J. H. Jackman. There are eight sections treating of Mason has an article on Type Sizes: No. 1. Education, Professions, and Social Life, and eight The Old British Bodies,' many illustrations of devoted to Philanthropic and Social Work. Each specimens being given. Mr. Goodwin writes on subject is fairly treated, although a little anger is Technical Instruction in Printing and the shown under Law with respect to the failure of Costing Educational Campaign,' and the result women to obtain admission to that profession, is given of the competition for a suitable heading and reference is made to the annual meeting of the for the firm of Selfridge & Co. The illustraBar, when Mr. Holford Knight moved a resolu- tions in the number include three colour retion approving the admission of women to productions by the Curwen Press-' Spring in membership of the Bar: "It was lost by an over- Paris,' drawn and lithographed by the late T. R. whelming majority, only some thirty or forty votes Way; The Great Hall, Hampton Court,' drawn being recorded in its favour. So much for by Ella Coates; and Book to Camden Town,' barristers." The article then shows the position | a figure of a parrot, drawn by S. T. C. Weeks MR. CECIL CLARKE writes: "Permit an expres- unpublished-made to scale, and illustrated by sion of complete concurrence with the remarks scientific descriptions in Dutch. Many of the views contained in your obituary notice of the lamented and plans are on an unusually large scale, the largest antiquary and collector Ambrose Heal (see ante, being 25 feet in length. Those of the Orange River p. 479). Some years ago Mr. Heal kindly placed are the first ever made. The whole is contained in at the disposal of the writer much interesting 6 volumes (elephant folio), and is offered for 1,2501. material anent family associations with old St. MESSRS. T. H. PARKER BROS., in response to a Pancras parish, which would probably have been otherwise unobtainable. No doubt many another general deniand, have reissued and augmented their could testify to like courtesies received at his Catalogue of Military Prints. It contains 3,422 items, and is No. 9 of their catalogues on this sub"It is gratifying to know that Mr. Heal's valu-ject. The demand for military prints increases, able collections will in due course find a permanent home at the St. Pancras Library, under the careful supervision of Mr. F. W. Avant." hands. and the frequent queries in our columns as to costumes of the various armies show how extended is the interest in them. The Catalogue is admirably arranged, with a good general index, and really forms a work of reference. There is also a Regimental Index. British portraits are arranged alphabetically, while foreign ones are placed under countries. The lists under Costumes, Household Cavalry, Cavalry, Artillery, &c., are arranged chronologically. Garrison towns in the United Kingdom are under counties, and those abroad, including Greater Britain, are under countries. Caricatures are under artists or publishers. MESSRS. HENRY SOTHERAN's Catalogue 740 is Part I. of the list of their books on Theology, and BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.-DECEMBER. MR. P. M. BARNARD of Tunbridge Wells sends us his Catalogue 80 - Autographs, Charters, and other Documents (291 items), Part I. containing autographs and papers of personal interest, Part II. early deeds and charters. Among the former we notice the following: Privy Council Letter, 4 April, 1575, with four lines in the autograph of Lord Burleigh, and signatures of Burleigh, the Earls of Lincoln, Leicester, Warwick, runs from A to Ha. It includes the libraries of the and Sussex, and Sir Thomas Smith-a notable late Canon Lowe, the Bishop of Lichfield, and Dr. group of signatures, 51. 5.; Drummond of Haw-Guinness Rogers. There are a complete set of the thornden, 91.; Francisco Foscari, Doge of Venice, Alcuin Club Collections up to 1911, 12. 128. ; D.S., 8 May, 1438, 207.; a letter of Henrietta thirty eight volumes of the Annales EccleMaria, Queen Consort of Charles I., to her brother, siastici,' in the best edition of 1738-56 (with the 30.; Josephine Bonaparte, L.S., 11 March, 1799, 51. 58.; Sir Walter Scott, A.L.S. to George Canning, exception of an Apparatus and the Indexes), 12.; with his answer, 107. 10s.; and the receipt for the mention two copies of the "Great Bible," one in the a number of very good Bibles, of which we may payment of Mary Sidney's dowry, signed H. Pem- second edition (first of Cranmer's), Apryll," 1540, broke, 3 Feb., 1577, 351. There are also letters of 751.; the other in the third (second of Cranmer's), Darwin, Macaulay, Daniel O'Connell, Cecil Rhodes, Southey, Wellington, and Wordsworth, and a number of letters and documents connected with the French Revolution. MR. ROBERT MCCLURE'S Glasgow Catalogue 24 contains works on Glasgow. There is a Steamboat Companion to the Western Highlands and the Highlands' (1820, 78. 6d.), which has a list of the first 24 steamers on the Clyde, including the Comet. Among Burns items is the first Pickering edition, 2 vols., half calf, 1830, 15s. Under Edinburgh are 63 drawings of buildings, edited by T. G. Stevenson, large folio, cloth as new (4 guineas to subscribers), 12s. 6d. Mr. McClure has a collection of historical MSS., Relationi d'Ambasciatori Venetiani a diversi Potentate,' including Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Prince her son (this Mr. McClure has transcribed and edited, and publishes at 18.). The price of the collection is 50 guineas. There are two MSS. from Sir Thomas Phillipps's collection: The Borgias-Pope Alexander VI. and his Children,' 101. 108., and an early work on Spain, Cesare Conparelli's 'Discorse della Monarchia di Spagnia,' 37. 158. As a Supplement to their Catalogue 316 Messrs. Maggs have issued the description of the Gordon collection of water-colour drawings depicting scenes, characters, and the fauna and flora of South Africa from 1777 to 1795. This was made by Col. Robert Jacob Gordon, a Dutchman of Scottish extraction-the same who reached and named the Orange River in 1778. He was no mean artist besides being a fine geographic draughtsman. The collection consists of over 400 drawings-as yet July," 1540, 307.; and seven numbers (1898-1906) of munificence of Lady Meux, 20%. We noticed also the series of Abyssinian facsimiles brought out by the the Opera Omnia of St. John Chrysostom in the edition published at Paris in the thirties of the last century, 4. 4s., and a copy of Daniel's 'Thesaurus Hymnologicus......Collectio amplissima cum Apparatu Critico,' an important work, scarce now, cheap at 51. 10s. Anastasia Dolby's Church Embroidery' and 'Church Vestments,' practically illustrated, published in 1867-8, are to be had for 6. 6s. Messrs. Sotheran have two sets of Dugdale's Monasticon Anglicanum' in the 1846 edition: one in dark-blue morocco by J. Wright, 281., the other in black morocco, 201. An interesting, if regrettable work is Zacharias Ferrerius's Hymni Novi Ecclesiastici juxta veram Metri et Latinitatis Normam,' 1525, 117. 11s. A good set of Gallandius's Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum,' 25., and a black-letter first English edition of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs,' 251., are also worth mention. [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] ELEVENTH SERIES.-VOL. VIII. SUBJECT INDEX [For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, A Aboyne (the Earl of) and Sterne, 166 Acre, great picture of its siege, 116 Adams (Rev. John), d. 1813, his epitaph, 65 Adder, "deaf adder that stoppeth her ears," Admission registers of schools, 89 Aerial post, earliest mention of, 1783, 347 66 Agonda," vegetable food of West Africa, 147 Alden (John), one of the Pilgrim Fathers, 306, Aleppo Merchant " Inn, Montgomeryshire, 317 "All Sir Garnet," origin of the expression, 70, Allen (C.), bookseller, Bristol, c. 1678, 467 Allway (Plomer), Westminster scholar, 1845, Almsdishes, mottoes engraved in, 510 Almshouses near the Strand, c. 1820, 333, 377 Ambiguous phrase, "Slav scholar," 249, 316, 395 Anonymous Works:- Angelus ad Virginem, carol, 1260, 409 Lady Anne, 50 Mensæ Secundæ, 1879, 510 Plutus, play, 1661, 170, 212 Road to Ruin: Two Royal Visits to Ireland, Sanguis Christi Clavis Cœli, 410 Secret History of Arlus and Odolphus, 1710, 69 Archer family, c. 1700, 308 Aristotle, quotation from, 89, 152 Armour, exhibition and sale of, 247 Arms. See Heraldry. 524 Books recently published:— Trollope (Anthony): his Work, Associates, Vase's (G.) A Great Mystery Solved, 500 Westminster Cathedral, edited by the Rev. Whatmore's (A. W.) Insulæ Britannica: the Whitaker, The International, 1914, 518 Who's Who, 1914, 518 Who's Who Year-Book, 1914-15, 519 Writers' and Artists' Year-Book, 519 Borrow (G.), his letters from Hungary, 447 secret," 390 Botherby," reference to, in tour in Ireland, 369 Boydell (Miss) and Deputy Ellis, 1786, 507 Braddock family, 50, 135, 328, 370 Bramble Cay, latitude and longitude of island, Bridges," Mr. Bridges," poet, his identity, 147,180 Bright (John) and the Oldham election, 1832, 105 Brooksbank, Garnett, and Neville-Rolfe families, Brown (Dr. John), Jacobus Gray in his 'Hora Browne (Sir W.), Kt., Governor of Flushing, temp. Bruce of Airth, 1608, changed surname, 7, 73 Brusanus, Prince of Hungaria, The Adventures "Bucca-boo "hobgoblin, etymology of the Buckeridge and Reynolds families, 307 Notes and Queries, Jan. 24, 1914. Burges (Col. Elizeus), Governor of Massachusetts, 471 Burnett (Archibald), his cameo of Nelson, 210 Butler (Thomas), Winchester scholar, c. 1588, 409 Byron (Lord), and the Hobhouse MS., 51; Last C Cadogan (Hon. Edward), captain in 49th Foot, Caffres and Caffraria, quotations of 1711, 106 Calcutta, list of victims of Black Hole, 28, 94 trated by, 148, 198 Calendar, Jewish, moon 252, 294, 331, 380 seen through glass," 230, Calvert (W.), Westminster scholar, 1824, 208 Cambridge University: nicknames, 1796, 246; Campbell (C.), Westminster scholar, 1774, 208 Campbell (H.), Westminster scholar, 1787, 208, 295 Cannon in Cannon Place, Hampstead, 390 66 Capital letters, rhythmical rules about, 134 Notes and Queries, Jan. 21, 1914. Books recently published:- SUBJECT INDEX. Black's (W. G.) Glasgow Cross, with a Sug- Book-Auction Records, edited by F. Kars- Bradley's (H.) A New English Dictionary: Calendar of the Fine Rolls preserved in the Calendar of Letter-Books preserved among Calendar of the Patent Rolls preserved in Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Charters: British Borough Charters, 1042- Cieza de Leon's (Pedro de) The War of Clapham (A. W.) and W. H. Godfrey's Craigie's (Dr.) Icelandic Sagas, 39 Deloney (Thomas), Works of, ed. by F. O. Dickens (Charles), The First Editions of the Dictionary of National Biography, Index and Epitome of the Second Supplement, 419 Eden's (r. S.) Ancient Stained and Painted Illustrated Dictionary Modern, English British Empire with a Reference Library and Treasury of Facts, his Fabre, Poet of Science, by C. V. Legros, 258 Folk-Lore, Vol. XXIV. No. I., 219 Frost's (W. A.) Bulwer Lytton, Errors of his Gardner's (A.) Within our Limits, 139 Greenwood's (A. D.) Horace Walpole's World, 18 Hall's (E. V.) The Romance of Wills and Hall's (H.) Westminster Cathedral, 279 Journal of the Royal Institution of Corn- Lancashire Place-Names, A Handbook of, Leeper's (A.) A Plea for the Study of the IV. Main's (F. O.) The Works of Thomas Deloney, Markham's (C. R.) The War of Quito, by Meehan's (J. F.) A Few of the Famous Inns Milne's (J.) Aberdeen, 59 Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 159 Naville's (E.) Archæology of the Old Testa- Nelson's (P.) Ancient Painted Glass in Eng- New English Dictionary: Several-Shaster, Nicoll's (Sir W. R.) A Bookman's Letters, Norman's (P.) Victoria and Albert Museum Pearce's (E. H.) Sion College and Library, 19 Shakespeare: Burbage and Shakespeare's Sion College and Library, by E. H. Pearce, 19 Spurgeon's (Dr. Caroline) Mysticism in and Steeves's (H. R.) Learned Societies Stopes's (Mrs. C. C.) Burbage and Shake- Tearle's (C.) The Pilgrim from Chicago, 499 |