MESSRS. MACMILLAN & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.

Eversley Edition.

CHARLES KINGSLEY'S

NOVELS.

Messrs. MACMILLAN & CO. have the pleasure to announce a NEW EDITION of the NOVELS of

CHARLES KINGSLEY, which they will publish The METAPHYSICS of the SCHOOL. immediately under the above title.

This Edition has been planned to meet the wish expressed by many admirers of Mr. Kingsley for a really beautiful Edition of his Novels. The EVERSLEY EDITION will, therefore, be printed from new type by Messrs. R. & R. Clark, on a paper specially manufactured for this work by Messrs. John Dickinson & Co.; the binding will be done by Messrs. James Burn & Co.; and the Publishers hope that the mechanical production will be found in every respect worthy of the books themselves.

The EVERSLEY EDITION will be comprised in ELEVEN VOLUMES, Globe 8vo., and will be published at a uniform price of FIVE SHILLINGS per Volume.

By THOMAS HARPER (8.J.). In 5 vols. Vol. II. 8vo. 18s. just published. Vol. I. 8vo. 188.

"Two of the chief infirmities of the times are forcibly expressed......Nothing better has been said against the evil system of filling the youthful mind with unrelated fragments of knowledge or the growing disinclination to fix attention upon mental abstractions."

Westminster Review.

A Portrait, by Mr. LOWES DICKINSON, of The LIFE of JOHN MILTON: NarCHARLES KINGSLEY in his Study at Eversley, never before engraved, will appear as a Frontispiece in the First Volume.

rated in connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of his Time. By DAVID MASSON, M.A. LL.D.. Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh. Vol. I. New and Revised Edition. 8vo. 21s.

Vol. II. 8vo. 16s.; Vol. III. 8vo. 18s.; Vols. IV. and V. 8vo. 328.; Vol. VI. with Portrait, 8vo. 218.

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JOHN FRANCIS, at No. 20, Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.-Saturday, April 23, 1881.

OH Club. London, W. H. Dalton, 1859. Lambridge University Chess CURIOUS and SCARCE FRENCH and ENG

GLOSSARY; or, Collection of Words, Phrases, SAMUEL BAGSTER & SONS, 15, Paternoster Row, London. Customs, Proverbs. &c., illustrating the Works of English Authors, particularly Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. By ROBERT NARES, Archdeacon of Stafford, &c. A New Edition, with considerable Additions, both of Words and Examples, by JAMES O. HALLIWELL, F.R.S., and THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A. F.S.A., &o. 2 thick vo's. 8vo. a New and Cheaper Edition, cloth, 17. 18. London: J. RUSSELL SMITH, 36, Soho Square.

LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1881.

CONTENTS.- N° 70. NOTES:-An English Bookseller's Contribution to Bibliographical Literature, 341-The Hepburn MSS. a Letter of Queen Elizabeth to the Earl of Bedford, 343-Shakspeariana, 344-The Harrisons of Norfolk, 345-"Suzerain," 346

"Mum," 347-Cowslips and Primroses - Eton College
Library, 348.

QUERIES:-Clergymen hunting in Scarlet-A Charles I.
Ring-Ireland's Shakspearian Forgeries, 348-Bells of St.
Helen's, Worcester-An Ivory Amulet-John de Sprat

Arms Wanted-Morris of Fishleigh-"A Spode's Font "-
First Mention of Steam on the Thames-Horseshoes at Oak-
ham Castle-"Quest," 349—"Prunella "-Rooks forsaking
Rookeries-Angels building a Church-Dynastic Nomen-

clature-Wordsworth-Townsend "Comte d'Artois"

Botany in Anglesey-The Duke of Marlborough, 1758

Authors Wanted, 350.

pages; and it includes 22,000 numbers, representing about 35,000 books, or say 200,000 volumes, which might be valued at 90,000l. or 100,000l. A special word of praise is due to the Very complete and elaborate index of names and subjects, which consists of 229 pages in treble columns, giving about 90,000 references. But these vulgar statistical details afford no idea of the intrinsic value of the contents, describing a large number of marvellous books and manuscripts,

some of which we will call attention to further on.

This is the third and largest of the gigantic catalogues with which Mr. Quaritch has for some years been astonishing the book-buying world. But the happy possessor of the former catalogues of 1874 and 1877 should on no account part with in them, as they contain some important classes which are but poorly represented in that under our notice. In the catalogue of 1874, for instance, is to be found the richest collection of romances of chivalry ever offered for sale, arranged in a novel manner to show the literary genealogy of all the romances, together with a remarkable series of block-books and incunabula. A chief feature of the 1877 issue consisted of its Oriental literature.

REPLIES:-The Etymology of "Bedford," 350-Pheasants
England, 352-"Er" pronounced as ar"-Norborne Ber-
keley, Baron de Botetourt, 353-E. Marshall, Prebendary of
Peterborough -"Sarsaparilla"- Lady Ferrers-" Clere'
H.M.S. Ajax, 1807, 354-A Roman Inscription-" Deux-
ace," &c.-Praed or Mortimer Collins? 355-Numismatic-
Calderon de la Barca-Superstitions about Feathers, 356-
"Jolly"-Stone Altars-"Legenda Aurea "-" Zoedone"-
Growling Slow-Mnemonic Lines-Stratford-on-Avon, 357
-Allen Family-Obituary Verses- Elstree Hall - Henry
Hallywell, &c.-Books published by Subscription-Wo;
man's Tongue, 358-William Pitt-Bric-a-brac-"Head"
and "Type"-Authors Wanted, 359.

NOTES ON BOOKS:-Payne's "Lectures on the Science and
Art of Teaching"-Hope's "Popish Kingdome "-" Letters
and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII."-"Prize
Translations," &c.-"The Sacristy."

Notices to Correspondents, &c.

Notes.

AN ENGLISH BOOKSELLER'S CONTRIBUTION

We will now turn over the pages of Mr. Quaritch's latest achievement, stopping occasionally to dwell upon some of the most remarkable articles. The Catalogue fitly commences with the class of manuscripts, among them being some of very great value, leading off with an Evangelistarium, written, probably, in the abbey of St. Michael at Verdun about the year 870-a magnificent specimen of ancient art, supposed to have been executed for Charles the Bald, whose passion for fine MSS. is well known to the student of paleographical history. This is followed by a number of Greek and Latin Gospels of the tenth and eleventh centuries, remarkable alike for their antiquity and artistic merit. We then come to a Lectionarium, written about 1160 in the great Benedictine abbey of Ottobeuern in Bavaria, which remained in the abbey library until the fifteenth century; it is of unusual splendour in decoration and calligraphical beauty.

TO BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE. A General Catalogue of Books offered to the Public at the affixed prices, by Bernard Quaritch, London, 1880, is the unpretending title of a publication which is as creditable to Mr. Quaritch as it is to the English book-trade of which he is so distinguished a member. Lord Macaulay said that Nares's colossal Life of Burleigh filled him with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when first he landed in Brobdingnag and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. What would Macaulay have said of this Brobdingnagian tome? At any rate, we are sure that he would have treated it more respectfully than he did Nares, and would most likely have rushed out at once with a healthy desire to purchase as many of the books described in the Catalogue as possible. The favourite exclamation of Dominie Sampson is the first remark which arises to one's lips at the sight" Edwardi regis anglie" and "Margarete de Clere, of this more than portly tome: "Prodigious," indeed! It is 68 inches thick, which is about one inch thicker than the Post Office London Directory; it weighs 91b. 15oz.; it contains about 2,400

The English collector will find a number of objects of great interest. One is a Missale Gallicanum of the thirteenth century, which bears marks of having been written in Anjou about the time of King John's accession to the English throne. In the "Memento for the Dead" there is added a memorandum of Edmund Plantagenet, grandson of King John; and on the margin of the Memento for the Living" are the names of

comitissæ cornubie," and other persons, showing that the book must have been used in some connexion with the royal family of England. The liturgical peculiarities of the manuscript were the

Mr. Quaritch was one of the largest buyers at the sale of the famous Didot library in 1879; and, as we are on the subject of manuscripts, we will turn to another part of the catalogue, where a number of trophies of extreme interest from that great collection are described. Attention is at once attracted to a lengthy notice of "The Prayer Book of John Talbot, first Earl of Shrewsbury," in French, Latin, and English, an illuminated folio written between 1425 and 1433. The book was a wedding present from the Duke of Bedford to his friend Talbot, on the occasion of the marriage of the latter to the sister of the Earl of Warwick. This precious and genuine relic of the great English warrior renowned by Shakspeare, the Livre d'Heures which shared the fortunes of its owner on the battle-field, is worthy of preservation in a noble shrine. The manuscript is described with elaborate care in a learned dissertation which contains a variety of interesting details of the life of Talbot. Another of the Didot treasures is the S. Beati Commentarius in Apocalypsim, a splendid manuscript full of large miniatures, written in Northern Spain about 1150. According to the well-known authority Count Bastard, there is no twelfth century codex in existence which can rival this grand volume in artistic value. Another gem is a manuscript of the Apocalypse, of about 1350, containing ninety-six most beautiful miniatures of rare beauty and finish, evidently the work of one of the great Italian painters of the school of Giotto. Classical codices of early date are so excessively rare that one of Cicero de Amicitia of the ninth century demands attention. This interesting manuscript was probably written in eastern France in the time of Charles the Bald.

subject of a dissertation by Dr. Todd, of Dublin, to whom it formerly belonged. A volume containing Gregory's Homilies and four other works, written about 1230 in the house of the Grey Friars at York, is highly interesting for what it tells us of the prices of books. It is marked as having been assigned (about the year 1300) to the Friars Minors of York at the value of 5s.; one hundred years later it was given in pledge for 30s.; and two hundred years later, or about the beginning of the sixteenth century, it came into the possession of John Vicars, Rector of Newton Kyme, near Tadcaster, who added a "priced catalogue" of his library on one of the fly-leaves. We thus learn that the rector owned forty-five books or volumes, valued at 147. 6s. 11d., among the books being the works of St. Augustine, 4 vols., 31.; St. Jerome, 4 books, 1. 13s. 4d.; St. Gregory, 1 book (the present MS.), 13s. 4d.; Bede, 2 books, 10s.; Macrobius, 12d., &c. After turning over pages of lengthy descriptions of valuable manuscripts, the eye is struck by a notice of a volume containing two romances of chivalry-Lancelot du Lac and Hippomedon, written by John of Dorkingge about 1320. The excessive rarity of such specimens is well known. A little further on is one of the chief gems of the collection, being the "New Testament, translated into English by John Wyclif." This precious manuscript, written about 1390, is the only perfect codex of Wyclif's work which is ever likely to be offered for sale, as there are but seventeen genuine copies of the New Testament in existence, of which fourteen are in great public libraries, the fifteenth being that of Lord Ashburnham, and the sixteenth at Middle Hill. Mr. Quaritch's copy may be said to be unique, as it is the only perfect copy contemporaneous with We have thought our readers would be glad the reformer. Another book which deserves a to learn something of a few of the wonders resting-place in this country is Gower's Confessio described in the volume before us, but there is Amantis, written about 1400-a splendid old embarras du choix, and many pages might be manuscript, presenting a valuable text of the poet occupied in discoursing of precious manuscripts who ranks next in importance to Chaucer in early representing the various artistic schools of EngEnglish literature; it contains some characteristic land, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The verses on Richard II. which do not appear in Dr. arrangement of this catalogue is peculiarly Pauli's edition. We will now call attention to arbitrary, and doubtless obeys alone the stern perhaps the most remarkable article of the whole law of business expediency. We thus pass from collection, being Lydgate's Boke of the Sege of manuscripts to periodicals, where the journals of Troy, a magnificent manuscript in royal folio, science and art, the transactions of learned executed about the year 1425, containing seventy societies, issues from private presses, and the large miniatures illustrative of English manners various great national collections of chronicles and customs in the time of Henry V. There is form a remarkable show in a class in which sets no other such manuscript of Lydgate in existence, are difficult to procure, and almost impossible to and Mr. Quaritch must be congratulated on having make complete when imperfect. This section is owned so splendid a monument of English art and followed by one devoted to works on natural literature. The Siege of Troy has only been history, physics, mathematics, engineering, mining, printed twice at length-in 1513 and 1555-and &c., including that complicated chapter of biblioboth of these editions, which are, moreover, defec-graphy, scientific voyages and travels. The tive and incorrect, have become excessively rare; division of fine arts, which succeeds, is full of the manuscript is, therefore, nearly equivalent to objects of interest. It comprehends 220 pages, and an unpublished work by the disciple of Chaucer. is rich in books of prints, the engraved galleries