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NOTES and QUERIES: % Ht^ium at %ntextommmiation FOB LITERARY MEN, GENERAL READERS, ETC. ' When found, make a not* of."—Captain Cottm, No. 104. [B»SJ2.] Saturday, December 23, 1899. {JgZ?™™. HENRY SOT^^AN_&_CO.'S LIST. COMPLETE CATALOGUE (INCLUDING GOULD'S WORKS) POST FREE. THE 1IOEK REVOLT. MILLAIS (John Guille, F.Z.S., &e.).-A BREATH from the VELDT. (Sport and Natural History In the Transvaal territory and Rhodesia.) New and Revised Edition, with all the Original Illustrations by the Author, comprising 12 Full-Page Electro-Etchings, 49 other Full-Page Illustrations, and 88 Illustrations In the Text i also a Frontispiece after tho last finished Drawing of Sir JOHN MILLAIS. 4to green cloth extra, uncut, top edges gilt, 21. 2s. net. The great demand which exist* for the First Edition of the above work, and the high prices fetched by second-hand copies, will ensure this New Edition a warm welcome from all interested in the Sport and Politics of S. Africa. It will bo found to give a lifelike presentation of the Hunting Boer. OTHER WORKS BY MR. MILLAIS. BRITISH DEER and their HORNS. With 185 Text and Full-Page Illustra- tions, mostly by the Author; also jo Electrogravurcs and Coloured Frontispiece by the Author and Sidney Steel; and a Series of Unpublished Drawings by Sir Edwin Landseer, formerly at Ardvertkie Imperial 4to. buckram, top edges gilt, 41. is. net. GAME BIRDS and SHOOTING SKETCHES. Illustrating the Habits, Modes of Capture, Stages of Plumage, and the Hybrids and Varieties which occur among them. New and Cheaper Edition. With 67 Illustration.!* by the Author, and a Frontispiece by Sir John Miiiais. 8vo. buckram, 18c. net. AUTOTYPE FACSIMILE OF TURNER'S 'LIBER STUDtORUM.' TURNER (J. M. W., R.A.).-LIBER STUDIORUM. 74 Plates (including Frontispiece and 2 Alternative Plates) reproduced in Facsimile by the Autotype Process from Examples of the best states in possession of the Rev. STOPFORD A. 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THE BIBLE and its TRANSMISSION: an Historical and Bibliographical View of the Hebrew and Greek Texts, and of the Greek, Latin, and other Versions of the Bible (both MS. and Printed) prior to the Reformation. By the SAME Large and thick folio, beautifully printed at the Oxford University Press from Bishop Fell's celebrated fount, and illus- trated with 28 fine Collotype Facsimiles from the most important MS. Codices and Primary Printed Editions. Limited to 220 Copies, of which less than 50 Copies remain. In half-white vellum extra, uncut, top edges gilt, 6J..6*. net. HENRY SOTHERAN & CO. Publishers, 140, Strand, W.C.; and 37, Piccadilly, W.