Mr. George Gregory's Bath Catalogue 203-4 contains recent purchases. We note Aristophanis Comœdiæ,' 5 vols., large paper, royal 8vo, levant, a fine set, 21.; Bacon's Works, 10 vols., 1824, 1. 18.; and Hume and Smollett, 13 vols., Pickering, 1826, 17. There are a number of journals, magazines, and Proceedings of Societies. American items include Reports of the Coast, Geological, and Geographical Surveys. A complete set of The Ancestor, a fine unopened copy, is 21. There is a complete set of The Illustrated London News to December, 1899, 9., besides a set of The Graphic. There are original documents in courthand with seals, with facsimile illustrations dating from 1260 to 1750, comprising wills and chantry foundations, chiefly relating to Wells, Chedder and district, and a few Exeter documents. There is also a collection of Nelson MSS. containing upwards of 250 original documents. Messrs. Jeffery & Co. send two Catalogues, Nos. 12 and 13, both containing cheap books and pamphlets. There is one item of special interest to Thackeray collectors, The National Standard of Literature, Nos. 1 to 57, all issued. A note states that Dr. John Brown, referring to The National Standard and Thackeray's connexion with it, says that "Thackeray's editorial reign began about the nineteenth number, after which he appears to have done a good deal of work, reviews, criticisms, verses, &c." (North British Review, February, 1864). There are pamphlets under America, Ireland, Slave Trade, and Woman Suffrage 1871. There is an autograph letter of Lancaster, the founder of the system of education associated with his name. A copy of The London Catalogue of Books, 1800-27,' is 10s. 6d. Messrs. Sotheran & Co.'s Price Current 715 is rich in Books on Botany, Gardening, and Husbandry, all the well-known authorities appearing. There are sets of Curtis's Botanical Magazine and of The Garden. Curtis's Flora Londinensis,' second edition, 647 plates coloured by hand, 5 vols., royal folio, half-morocco, 1817-28, is 31. 10s. ; a choice copy of Gerarde's Herbal,' levant extra, 1597, 257.; Sweet's British Flower Garden,' 7 vols., royal 8vo, half-calf, 1823-38, 21.; and a Japanese Flora with three indexes, 21 vols. in 11, half-morocco, 71. 158. Books on Freemasonry include a series of designs of the initiation ceremony, 7 coloured plates, 1812, 157. 158. There are books from the library of the author of Tom Brown's Schooldays,' and selections of foreign books from the library of the late Dr. Emil Reich, each bearing his book-plate. · The other portion of the Catalogue contains the new Library Edition of Ruskin, 38 vols., 1903-9, 257. 108. (the last volume will be forwarded to the buyer when published). Under Shakespeare we find the Fourth Folio, the third Quarto of The Merchant of Venice,' the sixth Quarto of 'Pericles,' and a choice set which includes the fourth edition of Johnson and Steevens, Malone, Douce, and others, together 23 vols., morocco with floral tooling by Lewis, 1791-1807, 751. There are a number of works under Halliwell - Phillipps. Under Shelley is a copy of the poet's second 'St. Irvyne,' the first edition, publication, fcap. 8vo, with boards as issued, but with a new parchment back, wholly uncut, in a silken cardboard case, Stockdale, 1811, 657. Mr. Sotheran in a note states that the book met with such a poor reception that the sheets were sold off as a remainder. In 1822 the holders of the sheets bound them up with a new title-page dated that year. Under Surrey is a copy of Manning and Bray, Under 3 vols., royal folio, calf, 1804-14, 217. Tennyson is the Edition de Luxe, 12 vols, levant by Rivière, 187. 188. There is a choice set of Walpole's Historical Memoirs, 20 vols., 8vo, halflevant, 1845-59, 381. Under Yvery is Anderson's 'Genealogical History,' privately printed, 1742, 127. 128. [Notices of other Catalogues held over.] MESSRS. BOWES & BOWES of 1, Trinity Street, Cambridge, invite subscriptions for an Index to the Cole MSS.,' by Mr. J. E. Foster and Mr. G. J. Gray. The MSS. in question are a large mass of documents, and a guide to their contents should be very useful to historians and antiquaries. The MSS. refer largely to Cambridgeshire, but also to other counties, and the specimen of the Index sent to us is very satisfactory as a means of readily ascertaining details concerning places or persons. THERE will be a private press view of a Thacke ray Exhibition at the Old Charterhouse, E.C., on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 28th inst. The exhibition will be opened on the 30th by Lord Rosebery. Notices to Correspondents. 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Correspondents who repeat queries are requested to head the second com munication "Duplicate." J. R. M. ("The good Ananias ”).—Noted ante, p. 395. : INDEX. ELEVENTH SERIES.-VOL. III. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, Books RECENTLY PUBLISHED, A A. (G.) on battle of Barnet, 208 Almighty dollar, earliest use of the phrase, 109, : Alnwick walking through a bog, old custom, 47 Aberdonian on dogs on brasses, 208 358; foreign, in London during 18th century, American words and phrases, 48, 172, 196, 315, 354 Elizabeth (Queen), statue in the Royal Amphisbænic book, in the Bodleian Library, Abrahams (Aleck) on Court life, 193 89, 176 Morelius (Eligius) and Gilbert Masius, 488 Theses by Principal Andrew Aidie, 246 Anderson, Simpson, and Dickson genealogies, Anglo-American mail service: its hicentenary, 5 Anon =erewhile, use of the word, 266 Churches of Yorkshire, 366, 418, 473 Progress of the Pilgrim Good-intent, 9, 58 Rhoda, a novel, 449 Sentimental Journey to Margate and Hastings, Voice from the Bush, a poem, 48, 114, 214, Wandering Nag, Irish poem, 346 White Hand and a Black Thumb, 249, 338 Anscombe (A.) on Bishop Fastida and farmhouse Gratious on Gracines Street, 212 riage, 109 Arbuthnot (Robert) = Beatrix Gordon, her father, B. (C. C.) on adder's fat as cure for deafness, 117 Archer (H. G.) on black bandsmen in the Army, 370 Chamney or Cholmondeley family, 3 Archibald (R. C.) on English mathematical diaries, 252 Mathematical periodicals, 253 Mathematical terms not in N.E.D.,' 426 Arcoul, French privateer, taken by Portland Aristotle on education, 107, 258, 433 Arkle (A. H.) on authors of quotations wanted, 196 Armiger, meaning of the word in 'Alumni Army, black bandsmen in, 287, 336, 370, 432 Arrow, broad arrow, the King's mark, 1383, 245 Arundel (Sir John) of Clerkenwell, c. 1588, 367, Ascham (Roger) and Ioannes Ravisius Textor, Ashley or Astley (Katherine), governess to Queen Ashton (Sir William), M.P. 1624, his biography, Astarte on authors of quotations wanted, 388 O dear, my good masters," 128 Scott (Sir Walter), his poet ancestor, 287 Astley or Ashley (Katherine), governess to Queen = Atrebatum Artois, ghosts in the churchyard, Attwood (J. S.) on " Or. Goldsmith, B.A.," 28 Austin (Roland) on Benjamin Bathurst, 90 County coats of arms: co. Somerset, 77 High Stewards and Recorders at the Restora- Rudder (Samuel), 244 Avoirdupois on weight of 1588, 408 Axon (Ernest) on Ainsworth the lexicographer, American words and phrases, 315 Aristotle on education, 258 Authorized Version: date of translations, 395 Danes'-blood, a flower, 16 Echoes, remarkable, 352 'N.E.D.': missing words in' Si-Simple,' 146 Rice for the complexion, 258 Siligo sprig: beckab: draget, 233 Chopin," 56 B. (E. F.) on House of Too Much Trouble,' 248 B. (E. T.) on teapoy: cellarette: gardevin, 272 B. (G. D.) on Bishop William FitzGerald, 91 B. (G. F. R.) on John Arbuthnot, physician and Barbour (Charles), 109 Burton (Rev. Thomas), D.D., 288 Collins (Essex), 389 Coryat (Thomas) and Westminster School, 254 D'Assigny (Fifield), 409 Da Costa, 389 Dann (Richard), 449 Drake (James), M.D., 109 Drake (Montagu Gerrard), 29 Duroure (Col.), 389 Falkener (John Bannister), 288 Ginger (Henry), 129 Grant (Gabriel), Prebendary of Westminster, 8 Heath (James), Royalist historian, 288 Heath (Richard), 109 Henchman (Humphrey), 288 Heylin (Richard), 29 Ibbetson, 129 Janeway (James), 129 Jarrett (Edward), 188 Johnson (Dr.) of Warwick, 188 Jones (Thomas Morres), 148 Joye (Charles), 188 Ken (Bishop), 290 Lockwood (William Joseph), 29, 254 Prior (Matthew), his birthplace, 254 Royal Blue " omnibuses, 257 Terrace, 291 Vesey (John), Archbishop of Tuam, 429 · B. (H. A.) on Anne Boleyn: Bulley Family, 8 B. (I. X.) on authors of quotations wanted, 348 White meats: wigs: afternooning, 206 B. (M. A.) on authors of quotations wanted, 147 B. (R.) on authors of quotations wanted, 92 Bedford Library, 446 Elmham (William), 193 Horses taken to church, 318 Pastrana (Julia), 179 Baddeley (Richard), 1820, his biography, 189, Baddeley (St. Clair) on Richard Baddeley, 492 Fishing in classical times, 393 Badge worn by paupers, its history, 55, 118 Bagehot (Walter) on the Crown, 307, 357 Bagnall (John), philosopher, c. 1784, his bio- Bagster (S. S.) on Ananias as a Christian name, Christian names used by men and women, 456 'Sentimental Journey to Margate': 'Rhoda,' Baillie, Anderson, and Simpson genealogies, 188 Deville, 226 English Bible, 1611, 101 Gale family, 297 Bakester (Geffery le) de Loffithe, Forfar, c. 1296, Baldock (Major G. Yarrow) on Hanoverian regi- Balfour (John), b. 1775, graduated 1789, 32, 75, Ball (H. Houston) on Abp. Euseby Cleaver, 114 'Ballad of Splendid Silence,' its historical founda- Ballantyne (James), his Kelso press, 347, 396, Bandsmen, black, in the Army, 287, 336, 370, Banks (Percival), c. 1650, his genealogy, 267 Baptismal scarf, heirloom of Fitzwilliam family, Bar sinister, early use of the term, 212 Barbour (Charles), Westminster scholar, 1674, Barn Elms Farm, 1821, its locality, 267, 313 Barnet, battle of, its site, 208, 414 Barrell (Savage) and Humphrey Cotes, 308 229, Gray's Elegy: translations and parodies, Barrow (T. H.) on black bandsmen in the Army, Babies' health affected by kittens, 18 Bacon, earliest use of the word, 1081, 465 432 Barrow (Thomas), artist, d. 1820, his descendants, Barrows long barrows and rectangular earth- Barrule on reform of the Calendar, 205 Bathurst (Benjamin), English diplomat, his Batsford (B. T.) on Talman and John Webb, Battle at Rigby, Lincolnshire, 1645, 487 Battle in Lincolnshire, 1643 (not 1655), its Battle of Barnet, its site, 208, 414 Baxter (F. W.) on the Bezant, 170 Elizabeth (Queen), her statue in the Royal Own blithering, 213 Seekers, religious sect, 255 Bacon (Francis), his Essay XVI. and Sir J. Baxter (Wynne E.) on Coroner of the Verge, 96 Davies, 124 Milton Bibles, 109 Bayley (A. R.) on Sir John Arundel of Clerken- Bedford Library, works belonging to, in 1817, 446 Bedfordshire epitaphs, collection of, 207 glass and Belfast, registers c. 1677, 70, 114; Bells of Quebec Cathedral, 1760, 389 Bennett (Richard), c. 1850, his ancestors, 228 Bensly (Prof. E.) on adders' fat as cure for deaf- |