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NOTES AND QUERIES. ui 8. vn. MAR. 22, ms.
when it was produced by Handel at Dublin. It
is sad to read that Arne deserted his wife. There
is some curious correspondence between Arne and
Garrick, and much that is interesting about
4 Rule, Britannia.'
MR. ELLIOT STOCK: sends us the volume of The Antiquary for last year. The fact that this volume is the forty-eighth speaks well for its popularity. The varied contents include many original articles, such as ' The Charter of Oxhey,' by R. T. Andrews ; ' Border Pele Towers,' by J. F. Curwen ; ' Orkney and Shetland Two Hundred Years Ago,' by W. Fordyce Clark ;
- Evelyn's Design for a Library,' by W. R. B.
Prideaux ; ' The " Honeysuckle " Ornament,' by C. Garlick ; ' Anna Maria von Schuurman,' by J. F. Scheltema ; and ' Scotter and Scotton,' by T. B. F. Eminson. There are, as usual, many excellent illustrations.
The Imprint for February 17th is, like the first number, an excellent specimen of what printing should be. Among coloured illustrations are beautiful reproductions of two pictures drawn by Birket Foster for his children's scrap-book.
- The Atlas Omnibus ' shows the precarious perch
for passengers on the top, without any protecting rail in front, also the difficult climb to it by small steps at the back. In the other, ' The Bear Pit at the Zoo,' we have ladies flounced and crinolined, little girls in pork-pie hats, and boys in the belted tunics and white duck trousers of the sixties. There is a delightful little poem a child's address ' To a Star ' by John Banister Tabb.
WE have received from Messrs. Mitchell their Newspaper Press Directory for 1913. It is too well known to need any extended notice. It shows, as it has done for more than sixty years, the continued progress of the Press both in Great Britain and its Colonies. The most notable events of the past year have been the amalgamation of The Daily News and Morning Leader and the starting of two new daily papers in the interests of Labour The Daily Herald and The Daily Citizen. The map of Great Britain, by an ingenious plan, indicates whether one paper, weekly or daily, or whether more than one, are published in the various towns.
BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. MARCH.
MB. P. M. BARNARD of Tunbridge Wells, in his Catalogue No. 66, has brought together a good collection of Tracts and Broadsides, for the most part from, the seventeenth century. All the entries furnish more or less interesting reading. We may mention the following as instances of wljat is to be found in them. There are several of the works of Sir Roger L' Estrange, to which a recent scholarly work has anew drawn attention :
- The Relaps'd Apostate,' for example, " Wherein
The Faction and Design are laid as open as Heart can wish " (1641, 3s. 6d.) ; ' No Blinde Guides, in Answer to a seditious Pamphlet of J. Milton's ' a first edition (1660, II. 5s.); and 'A Whipp, a Whipp' (1662, 4s. 6d.). Readers of Mr. J. B. Williams's contributions to our columns may like to know that they can here have for 10s. Hugh Peters's ' Severall Propositions to the Members of the Honourable House of Commons . . . .' (1646). We noticed also by Addison, " To
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, with
the Tragedy of Cato, Nov., 1714. To Sir Godfrey
Kneller, on his picture of the King," folio, London,
1716, first edition (21. 2s.) ; 'A Proposal for the
Advancement of Trade upon such Principles as
must Necessarily Enforce it,' folio, 1676, the first
publication of Robert Murray (11. 10s.) ; and
' The Last Advice of William Lavd, late Arch-
Bishop, to his Episcopall Brethren. . . .,' having a
curious portrait of Laud standing on his shroud,
1645 (11. 5s.).
MR. FRANCIS EDWARDS, in his Catalogue 318, sets before us 1,250 works on India. They include a number of useful books on all aspects of India at moderate prices, and also som.3 important items of more curious or unique interest. There is a set of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, from the beginning in 1832 to 1880, with Gleanings in Science added, 40Z. perhaps the most important of the sets of periodicals. Among books on the antiquities of India there are four of the works of Thomas and William Daniell, and also Fergusson's ' Tree and Serpent Worship ' (a copy of the original edition to be had for 11. , and one of the second edition for 10Z.) ; Major E. Moor's ' The Hindu Pantheon,' the original edition, 1810, 91. ; and Solvyn's ' Costume of Hindostan,' the original edition of 250 coloured etchings and folding views of Calcutta, 1799, 14Z. A copy of Gould's ' Birds of Asia,' in 7 vols., folio, 1850-83, costs 54?. ; and another good scientific item is Allan Hume's ' Game Birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon,' 1879-81, 14Z. We may also mention Williamson's ' Oriental Field Sports : Description of the Wild Sports of the East,' 1807, 19Z. ; and Tod's ' Travels in Western India, embracing a Visit to the Sacred Mountains of the Ja.ins and the Most Celebrated Shrines of the Hindu Faith between Rajpootana and the Indus,' 1839, 71. 10s.
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