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testimony is supplied in the Hastings corre- spondence by Hastings's care for Buchanan's daughter, who was, or course, his own step- daughter. The girl was sent nome for educa- tion, and apparently placed in the charge of Mrs. Forde, wife of one of the Supervisors appointed with Vansittart. This laay writes in 1773 that Miss Buchanan was apprenticed, but ran away from her place three months before her time was up. Her guardian then took her home, and engaged dancing-masters for her, to qualify her for returning to India ; but she tired quickly of gentility, and at her own wish was sent to the care of her grand- mother and aunt at Arklow, where she crowned her misdeeds by running off with a corporal. After this there is a long blank in her history ; but in 1797-8 she reappears in the correspondence, a shameless and per- sistent beggar, as Elizabeth Finley or Findley. Hastings made her an allowance of 20Z. a year through his brother-in-law Woodman, and she makes perpetual efforts to anticipate it or get it increased.

Having cleared up this matter as fully as is at present in my power, may I venture to repeat my request for fresh information to any reader who can throw light on the marriage of Capt. (or Lieut.) John Buchanan, of Craigieven, and thus establish the identity of the first Mrs. Hastings ?

SYDNEY C. GRIER.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHING AND BOOK- SELLING (10 th S. i. 81, 142, 184, 242, 304, 342). I venture to send some notes of omissions in the above which readily occur to mind, others to follow when you have space. All, I think, will form useful additions to a great store of material awaiting the deft hand of an Edmund Gosse to weave it into a history of a very complex trade.

Publishing and bookselling alone confine one to a somewhat narrow, if not mercenary, outlook upon a business of great antiquity and vast ramifications, although I admit the mere production and vending of books cannot fail to be of interest to many inside and out- side the trade.

The subject seems shorn of half its romance if you purposely exclude authorship, print- ing, actions at law, formation of libraries, adventures of rare books and manuscripts, and all the other inextricable bypaths of literature. Why not make the scheme broad and comprehensive]

Baxter, J. The Sister Arts: Paper Making, Printing, Bookbinding. Lewes, 1809. Plates. Crown 8vo.

Blackburn, Charles F. Classified Catalogue of

General Educational Works in use in the United


Kingdom and its Dependencies in 1876, so arranged as to show at a glance what works are available in any given branch of Education. 1876. 8vo.

Rambles in Books. 1893. Portrait. Crown 8vo. 500 copies printed.

Book and News Trade Gazette. Edited by Kendall Robinson. 1894-5. 4to. Came to an end after seventy-three numbers had been issued.

Book Auctions. Vide Book Queries, articles under heading ' At the Rooms.'

Bookbinder. (Periodical.) Consult indices.

Bookmart : a Magazine of Literary and Library Intelligence. Pittsburgh, U.S., 1884 and on. (Periodical.) Royal 8vo.

Book Queries : a Trade Medium for Books, Prints, Manuscripts, Book - plates, Autographs, &c. (Periodical, edited by VVm. Jaggard.) Liver- pool, 1894-1902. 4to and royal 8vo. Consult indices.

Bo wen, H. C. Descriptive Catalogue of Historical Novels and Tales. 1882. 8vo.

Bowes, Robert. The Cambridge University Press, 1701-7. Vide Camb. Antiq. Soc. ('Comm.' vol. vi. p. 362).

Brassington, W. Salt. History of the Art of Book- binding. 1894. Illustrated. 4to.

British Bookmaker. (Periodical.) A journal of the book-making crafts. Illustrated. Consult indices.

Brown and Watt. Catalogue of Books illustrating the History of Alchemy and Early Chemistry. Liverpool, 1890. Crown 8vo. Privately printed.

Bullock, C. F. Life of George Baxter, Engraver, Artist, and Colour Printer. 1901. Illustrated. 8vo.

Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature, edited by David Patrick. 1903. Illustrated. 3 vols. royal 8vo.

Clegg, J. Bookmen : Members of Learned, Anti- quarian, and Literary Societies in the United Kingdom. Rochdale, 1896. Crown 8vo.

Dickson and Edmond. Annals of Scottish Printing. Cambridge, 1890. Illustrated. 4to.

Directory of Second-hand Booksellers. Edited by

Arthur Gyles. Nottingham, 1886. Crown 8vo.

Ditto, edited by J. Clegg. Rochdale, 1888,

1891, 1894. Crown 8vo. As each issue differs

materially it is advisable to consult all.

Downing, William. Free Public Libraries from a Bookseller's Point of View. Birmingham, 1886. Crown 8vo. Privately printed.

Duff, E. Gordon. Early Printed Books. 1893. Illustrated. 8vo.

English Printing on Vellum to the Year 1600. Privately printed. 1902. 4to.

Garnett and Gosse. History of English Literature.

1903. Illustrated. 4 vols. royal 8vo. Hearne. Bibliotheca Hearniana: Excerpts from

the Library of Thomas Hearne. 1848. Portrait. 4tp. 75 copies only printed (for private dis- tribution).

International Book Finder. (Periodical, edited by Henry Kimpton.) 1890-3. Afterwards amalga- mated with Book Queries, which see.

Jaggard, William, Elizabethan publisher. A Cata- logue of such English Books as lately have been, or now are, in printing for publication. HilS. 4to.

Jaggard, William. Bibliography of Engineering Works (in Donaldson's 'Engineers' Annual').

1904. Crown 8vo.