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NOTES AND QTJEKIES: ^ Hlfbium 0f FOB LITERARY MEN, GENERAL READERS, ETC. < When found, make a note of."— CAPTAIN CDTTLB. {PHICK FOURPENCE. mnnff.¥.f.yyss^SfR IV... ll Sui.criplion, SOf. U. p,,t tired a t fni. KEGAN PAUL, J™^I:J5E & C0>' LTD- SOME DISTINGUISHED VICTIMS of the SCAFFOLD. By HORACB BLEACKLBY, M.A. With 21 Illuitrationa Reproduced In Facsimile from Contemporary Prints and Broadsides. Royal 8vo, cloth gilt, IPS. 6d. net. Among the famous eases dealt with are ihi»c; of Mies Blandy, the Perreaus, William Vymip Ryland, John HadfielA the seducer of the Beauty of Buttermere, and Henry Fauntleroy. The Author has taken nothing at second hand, but. at the bibliographies In the book will show, has dived deep Into contemporary literature, and has In more than one case settled a dispute. 1 point once and for all. DAILY CHRONICLE.—" Mr. Bleackley has written these biographies of eminent criminals, with as much patient research and fine enthusiasm as though they were national worthies of an historic sort. No one will begrudge him bis hobby of collecting eighteenth-century sinners, if he presents them in this entertaining manner, and illustrates them with such fine prints as the pretent volume contains." ' MRS. Q.' and ' WINDSOR CASTLE.' Two magnificent Colour Prints In Facsimile of the Originals. • MRS. Q.' Drawn by HUBT VILLIERS and Engraved by W. BLAKB. • WINDSOR CASTLB ' Drawn by I. B. (BAHROW) and Engraved by O. MAILE. With a Contemporary Memoir of •• Mrs. Q." (Harriet Wilton) by EDWARD EGLANTINE, Btq. Imperial 4to, limited to 500 Copies, 21. 2s. net. The Memoirs of " Mrs. Q.," which once and for all definitely identifies her with the afterwards notorious Harriet Wilson, whose scandalous memoirs claimed all the most distinguished in the land as her lovers, is exceedingly scarce, and a copy of it is not even to be found in the British Museum. ANGELO'S PIC-NIC ; or, Table Talk, including numerous Recollections of Public Characters who have figured in some part or another of the stage of life for the last Fifty Years (1834), forming an endless variety of Talent, Amusement, and Interest calculated to please every person ford of Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes. Written by HIMSBLF. Illustrated with the Original Frontispiece by O. CKL'IKSHAN Iv, and 24 other Illustrations (many of them In Colour) by Contemporary Artists, some of tb*m nevpr before reproduced. Among these Artists are ROWLANDSON. COSWAY, GILLRAY, JACK BANNISTER, ANOELO Himself. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, J. K. SHERWIN, G. CRUIKSHANK. Bdltion limited to 500 Copies. Imperial 8vo, 1 vol. ill. 2». net. Also an Edition on Hand-Made Paper limited to 50 Copies, with 3 extra Plates, 61. 5>. net. ORIGINAL HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES. THE DRYDEN HOUSE MEMOIRS. A SBRIES OF REPRINTS OF HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES IN A CHEAP AND HANDY FORM. Bach Volume small crown 8vo, with Photogravure Portraits and Maps, 3>. iW. net In buckram ; 4s. &/. net In limp roan. 1. MEMOIRS of the LIFE of COLONEL HUTCHINSON. Written by his Widow, LUCY, (1615-1664.) 2. MEMOIRS and TRAVELS of SIR JOHN RERESBY, Bart. (1634-1689.) 3. HISTORICAL MEMOIRS of MY OWN TIME (1772 1784). By Sir NATHANIEL WILLIAM WRAXALL, Bart. 4. MEMOIRS and TRAVELS of MAURITIUS AUGUSTUS, COUNT DE BKHYOWSKI. Written by HIMSBLF. (1741-1786.) KEGAN PAUL, 1 BENCH, TRUBNEB & CO., LTD., Drjden House, 43, Genard Street, London, W.