York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1881. 2 vols. 8vo. Half embossed leather, top edges gilt. 42 Illust., see each Vol. a. c. Index 2 col. Vol. II. 385-392.

... A narrative of travels in, (not a book upon,) Japan in 1878. The volumes consist mainly of letters written on the spot for Miss Bird's sister and a circle of personal friends. In many of the districts described the writer was "the first European lady "who had been seen by the Inhabitants." The journeys on horseback covered more than 1400 miles in the Interior, and the illustrations (with three exceptions) are engraved from sketches made by the Authoress or from Japanese photographs. Before the Introductory Chapter there is a "Glossary of Japanese Words for which actual English equivalents do not exist," and a number of Aino words are given in Appendix A (Vol. II. pp. 359–363).

Birrell, Augustine.-OBITER DICTA. First Series. New York: [263] Charles Scribner's Sons. 1887. 16mo. Cloth, top edges gilt.

.. A Series of seven Essays on the following subjects:—

Birrell, Augustine.-OBITER DICTA. Second Series. New York:

[264] Charles Scribner's Sons. 1887.

gilt.

16mo.

Cloth, top edges

... A Series of eleven Essays on the subjects stated below. Those on Milton and Pope are published for the first time; the remainder have appeared in Magazines:

The Essay on Book-buying is admirable, and yet, winding up with the thought of books being scattered, has a melancholy twinge about it.

Bishop, Mrs. See Bird, Isabella L.

Bishope, George.-NEW ENGLAND JUDGED, Not by Man's, but the [265] Spirit of the Lord: and the Summe sealed up of NewEngland's Persecutions. London: Robert Wilson. 1661.

Small 4to. Morocco extra, edges gilt. Binding by R. de
Coverly.

The Nature of the Book is further and fully explained on the Title-page, which recites that it is “A Brief Relation of the Sufferings of the People called Quakers in "those Parts of America from the beginning of the Fifth Moneth 1656 (the time of "their first arrival at Boston from England) to the later end of the Tenth Moneth, 1660. "Wherein the Cruel Whippings and Scourgings, Bonds and Imprisonments, Beatings "and Chainings, Starvings and Huntings, Fines and Confiscation of Estates, Burning "in the Hand and Cutting of Ears, Orders of Sale for Bond-men, and Bond-women, "Banishment upon pain of Death, and Putting to Death of those People, are shortly "touched; With a Relation of the Manner, and Some of the Other most Material Proceedings; and a Judgement thereupon. In Answer To a Certain Printed Paper, In"tituled, A Declaration of the General Court of the Massachusets holden at Boston "the 18 October, 1658. Apologizing for the same." (Signatures A to Y in 4's.) This is followed by "An Appendex to the Book, Entituled, New England Judged: Being "Certain Writings, (never yet Printed) of those Persons which were there Executed. "Together With a Short Relation, of the Tryal, Sentence, and Execution, of William "Leddra. Written by Them in the time of their Imprisonment, in the Bloody Town "of Boston." London: Robert Wilson. 1661. (Signatures Z to C. C. in 4's.) Some of the head-line pagination is faulty.

Bispham, H[enry] C[ollins] (1841-1882).—PEN AND INK Sketches. [266] Philadelphia. [s. n.] 1866. Oblong folio.

edges gilt.

Morocco,

A Series of Pen-and-Ink Sketches signed H. C. Bispham and all dated 1866. This young Artist's forte lay in the delineation of wild animals and cattle. The subjects are as follows:

1. "Sherman's Bummers": Two soldiers riding and smoking on their forage.

2. "The Autocrat of the table": A cat and kittens.

3. "No interference!" Two dogs' heads, one with a stolen duck in his mouth.

4.

"Whose dog are you?" A little dog snarling, over a bone, at one many times his size.

5. "The Tiger's Lair": A man attacked and thrown down by a tiger.

6. "The Christmas Dinner": A labourer carrying a well-stocked basket, his dog dancing in front of him.

7. "Travelling companions": A man fiddling to his dancing dog, the little monkey resting behind the fiddler.

8. "Don Quixote charging the sheep."

9. A one-armed and a one-legged soldier "fighting their battles o'er" over their grog. 10. "The bugle call": A mounted soldier sounding the call.

II. "Contentment": A cattle piece with cows, etc.

Black, Adam and Charles.-[Atlas.] BLACK'S GENERAL Atlas [267] of the World: New and Revised Edition: embracing the latest discoveries, new boundaries, and other changes,

accompanied by introductory letter-press and Index. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1884. Atlas folio. Half morocco, edges gilt. Index 6 col. at end 70 pp.

... Collation: Frontispiece, Flags of all Nations: Title: Contents: Introduction (Physical Geography), pp. 5-32: Seventy-seven Maps, numbered I.-LV. (with 22 extras).

Black, Adam and Charles.-[Atlas.] GENERAL ATLAS of the [268] World, containing upwards of Seventy Maps Engraved on

Steel in the first style of art by Sidney Hall, William Hughes, etc. New Edition, embracing all the latest discoveries obtained from Government Surveys and Expeditions, Books of Recent Travel, and other sources, including the North West Passage discovered by H. M. Ship Investigator. With Introductory Chapters on the Geography and Statistics of the various countries of the World and a complete Index of 65,000 names. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1854. Atlas folio. Half morocco, edges gilt. Index 6 col. at end 63 pp.

... On the inside covers are extra Plans showing the Crimea and Cronstadt, the Atlas being published at the period of the Anglo-Russian War. After the Title are given (1) List of the Maps in their actual order in the Atlas and (2) List of the same arranged alphabetically, and an "Introduction" (12 pages).

Black, Adam and Charles.-LIFE OF SCOTT, Sir Walter.

British Poets.

See

Black, Adam and Charles.--[London.] BLACK'S GUIDE to Lon[269] don and its Environs. Illustrated by Maps, Plans, and Views. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 1863. 12mo. Half morocco.

Black, Charles Christopher.- MICHAEL ANGELO BUONARROTI, [270] Sculptor, Painter, Architect. The Story of his Life and Labours. (With Portrait.) London: Macmillan and Co. 1875. 8vo. Half morocco, top edges gilt. 20 Illust. a. c. Index 2 col. 257-262.

... After the Contents is given a List of the Popes during the time of Michael Angelo (1475-1564). Among the Illustrations is the Marble Statue of Moses in the Church S. Pietro in Vincoli at Rome. The Book does not claim to be ranked as a "Biography" but only as a "Story" of the usually accepted facts of the Artist's Life

as hitherto known. The Appendix (pp. 137-256) contains a variety of useful matter, notably :

Chronology of the principal Events in Michael-Angelo's life
A Memorandum as to his Manuscripts

Classified Catalogue of his Principal Works :—

Sculpture
Painting

Architecture

Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Models in England .
Catalogue of his Drawings in the Principal Foreign Galleries
Translations of his Sonnets

Bibliography of himself and his Works.

Black, William.-GOLDSMITH, OLIVER. See English Men of

Letters.

Blackburn, Henry.-ACADEMY NOTES, 1880: with 126 Illustra[271] tions, 112 being facsimiles of Sketches by the Artists. London: Chatto and Windus. 1880. 8vo. Half morocco, top edges gilt.

This was No. VI. of this interesting record of the Academy's Annual Exhibition. The object of the annual brochure is to record “the principal features of each "year's Exhibition."

Blackburn, Henry.-BRETON FOLK, an Artistic Tour in Brittany. [272] With 170 Illustrations by R. Caldecott. London: Sampson Low & Co. 1880. 8vo. Half blue morocco, edges gilt.

... This does not profess to be a description of the antiquities "nor even a book of "folk-lore," but is a pleasant series of gossipy sketches which bring the people of that old-world nook of Europe and their homes, fêtes, and customs very vividly before the minds of those who have been fortunate enough to ramble through that exceedingly interesting but "nonprogressive" district.

A Map of Brittany preceding the " Postscript for Travellers" at the end of the book is very useful.

Blackmore, R. D.-LORNA DOONE, A Romance of Exmoor. New [273] York: Harper & Brothers. [n. d.] 12mo. Cloth.

... This has deservedly run through many editions, and the author quotes, with justifiable pride, in the Preface to the sixth Edition, his delight “at hearing from a "recent visitor to the west, that'Lorna Doone,' to a Devonshire man, is as good as "clotted cream, almost!" Were a list to be prepared of the twenty best novels, by twenty writers, in the English language, this would undoubtedly be included among the number.

Blackwood, William and Sons.-Ancient CLASSICS for English [274] Readers. Edited by the Rev. W. Lucas Collins. Edin

burgh: William Blackwood and Sons. 1870-1874. 20 vols. in 10, small 8vo. Leather back, marbled sides and edges.

... There are 22 Classics included, which are briefly described below in alphabetical order.

ÆSCHYLUS (525-456 B. C.). By Reginald S. Copleston. 1870. ... Æschylus, the first of the three great tragic poets of Greece, was born at Eleusis in Attica, and died from the blow of a tortoise which a soaring Eagle dropped upon the Poet's bald head.

Mr. Copleston gives outlines of the seven Tragedies of Eschylus, which are all that are extant of the seventy he is said to have written, viz: Prometheus bound; The Female Suppliants; The Persians; The seven Chiefs against Thebes; and The Story of Orestes told in, The Agamemnon; The Choephori or Libation bearers; and The Eumenides.

ARISTOPHANES (444-380 B. C.). By the Rev. W. Lucas Collins. 1872.

·.· Aristophanes, the most celebrated comic Poet of Greece, was probably born at Athens. He wrote about fifty comedies of which eleven (some of them in a more or less imperfect form) are extant.

The extant Comedies are noticed at length by Mr. Collins, though he has not criticised them according to the order of their production: They are, The Acharnians (425 B. C.): The Knights (424): The Clouds (423): The Wasps (which gained the first Prize) (422): The Peace (421 or 419): The Birds (414): Lysistrata (411): Thesmophoriazusæ or the Women's Festival (also 411): The Frogs (405): The Female Parliament (392) and The Plutus (388 B. C.).

:

[Cæsar.] THE COMMENTARIES of Cæsar (100-44 B. C.). By Anthony Trollope. 1870.

·.· Mr. Trollope incorporates with the biography detailed accounts of Cæsar's historical works, namely, the seven books of the Commentaries on the Gallic, and the three books concerning the Civil, War.

CICERO (106-43 B. C.). By the Rev. W. Lucas Collins. 1871. ... Mr. Collins gives first, six chapters dealing with the biography of this Roman Orator, Philosopher, and Statesman, who was born at Arpinum (now Arpino) and died from assassination near his Formian Villa.

He then treats of Cicero's character as a Politician and Orator, and devotes the last four chapters to his Correspondence, his Essays on "Old Age" and "Friendship," his Philosophy, and his Religion.