THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

The Library Association, founded in 1877, held their annual meeting last week in the rooms of the Society of Arts. The new president, Mr. Henry Richard Tedder, in his inaugural address, said that the object of the association was to unite all persons interested in library work for the purpose of promoting the best possible administration of existing libraries and the formation of new ones where desirable. The library journals started since the inauguration of the society were a ready means of communication between English and American librarians. The Library Association began with a roll of 140; it was now about 550. The council's report told them that a charter of incorporation would probably soon be granted by the Privy Council. The speaker mentioned a number of interesting facts to show how the modern private book collector was an important factor in the formation of the public library. In the 18th century Stanesby Alchorne, whose books were incorporated in Lord Spencer's library, and Sir John Fenn were among the first who attached value to the dramatic and poetic literature of Old England. About the same period Mr. Crofts, Colonel Stanley, and "Don" Bowle were paying attention to old Spanish literature, while William Roscoe continued the practice of collecting Italian books, which had been a favourite pursuit of English literary men for more than two centuries. The library of the late Lord Ashburnham bore witness to its owner's love of interesting books combined with a keen sense of their ornamental beauty. The first of the great modern book sales was that of the library of Henry Perkins, formed between 1820 and 1840, and dispersed in 1873. Two copies of the Mazarin Bible, one on paper, the other on vellum, were sold for £2,680 and £3,400 respectively. Amongst the valuable MSS. in the Duke of Hamilton's library were the celebrated "Dante drawings by Botticelli, now unfortunately lost to England. The late Earl of Crawford had created a representative library of all branches of literature, art, and science, both ancient and modern. In summarizing the main qualifications of a librarian, he referred to Mr. Bradshaw as an example of professional ardour and technical excellence.

Dr. Garnett, the next speaker, in alluding to the recent Panizzi centenary, said that it was gratifying to find that our adopted countryman, to whom the British Museum owed so much, was still held in high honour in his native land.

The subject of a paper read by Mr. Sidney Webb was "A New Specialist Library for Political Science. He predicted that, as the natural sciences had been the main work of the 19th, political and social science would be the chief object of the endeavours of the 20th century, and he called upon each district to collect all literary material affecting the social life of the people.

Among other papers read Mr. J. Y. W. Macalister, the hon. secretary of the Association, discussed the question of the "Durability of Modern Book Papers," and called attention to the disquieting fact that many modern books, some of them of great importance, were printed upon paper which was certain to crumble to dust in a comparatively short period. Of almost all books the worst in this respect were the Blue-books, to which the historian of the future must look for his material.

The proceedings on Thursday were of a more strictly professional nature, dealing with the management and arrangement of libraries. One interesting announcement was that of Mr. Cotgreave, of the West Ham Public Libraries, who said that he was engaged in a single-handed attempt to compile a contents subject-index on a small scale. He hoped that the example set in America, and also by the Review of Reviews in England, would lead to the production of a truly national index under the auspices of the Library Association.

Sir Edmund Verney gave at the concluding session a valuable and amusing address on "Village Libraries and the Duties of the Village Librarian." He instanced the case of Middle Claydon, where the Act had been adopted and proved most successful in its working. All that was wanted generally was an addition to the sources from which village libraries could be endowed. The village librarian must exercise a good deal of tact. She "must make herself acquainted by degrees with the literary wants and tastes of each home; she would know that a book on Cromwell and the Civil War must not be recommended to a household absorbed in gardening, or a history of the early Christian martyrs to an old lady devoted to pet cats. Each one who enters the library must have pointed out to him that it contains the very book he wants; the farmer must find a book on agriculture; the boy a manual on carving; the young woman hints on dressmaking and cooking; and the elderly spinster's attention might be drawn to scandalous revelations of the Court

of Queen Elizabeth.

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Librarians had to practise patience and perseverance, and listen with good temper to the most outrageous doctrines. In one case, a canon's daughter was regretting the time spent by the men in the tavern; but when the establishment of a reading room was suggested, objected or the ground that too much reading was not good for the lower orders. It was sufficient if they read their Bibles. The calling of the librarian was the most unselfish in the parish; it demanded the highest qualities of sympathy and self-sacrifice, but the danger was lest the lady who rose to the greatness of her opportunities should be beguiled to transfer her talents and influence to some other sphere.

Mr. Frank Campbell, of the British Museum, pleaded for endowed scholarships in the training of librarians, and Mr. W. Axon, of the Moss Side Public Library, for a complete official bibliography of all English publications. In the evening a dinner was held at the Hotel Cecil.

GOOD LUCK TO "LITERATURE "-A FIRST VOYAGE. Child of this restless age of praise and blame,

When all who hold a pen must needs outpour Heart's fruit for daws to peck at, to what shore Sails the capacious hull that dares to claim Toll of all books that name the English name?

Shall baffling tides add sorrow to the oar, Dull calms perplex or surly tempests roar, Harbour bid welcome home, or reef work shame ? One thing at least gives presage of far good,

Your helmsman's guiding star can never set, The Star of Truth that knows nor hate nor fear; And launched adventurous on October's flood, Tho' jealous winds of criticism fret, Towards a nobler dawn he dares to steer.

We hear that Mr. Stuart Reid is writing a biography of the first Earl of Durham, which will throw light on the secrets of the Reform struggles and Cabinet difficulties of Earl Grey. Many political celebrities, such as Lord Beaconsfield in his "Radical" days, will fall within the compass of the book. Mr. Reid will throw much new light on the policy of Lord Durham during his mission to Canada in 1838, having in his possession a detailed journal kept during the summer of 1838 in Canada by Lady Durham, and a full statement of the views of the most brilliant of Lord Durham's lieutenants, Charles Buller. Mr. Reid, whose address is Blackwell Cliff, East Grinstead, would be grateful for any letters of Lord Durham or other information concerning his

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Does any one read Southey now? This question, sometimes asked, usually calls forth a negative response. Southey's fame is little more than an echo with us, and probably his best chance of being known to future ages will come from the fact that De

Quincey has enshrined him in his "Society of the Lakes," and various other writings. Consequent upon the breaking up of an old library in the North many of Southey's books have recently found their way to London, and not the least important of them is his own copy of " Madoc," a fine quarto volume, in spotless condition, and well worth a place in the national collection. Together with the books have come some lengthy letters, which show that Southey was a good correspondent, even though a mediocre poet. Here is the final paragraph of one addressed to Coleridge on the first day of the present century :-" Estlin is coming to London. I supped there on Monday-they produced Cartwright's Armine and Elvira' for me to read aloud after some half-hour's superla

tive praise upon its merit. I read a little at a hand-gallop-for an easier pace would have put me to sleep-and when I had done you never witnessed such a dead flatness as ensued. Danvers cried out-and I gave such a conscientious half-scruple of praise that the next day they laid all the poor poem's failure upon my bad reading-I murdered it-this would have been like killing dead small beer."

An eminent living authority on art is said never to dress in the morning without an illuminated manuscript open on his toilet table. There are many students of medieval art who, if their enthusiasm does not carry them so far as this, take a keen interest in the subject, and welcome any means of increasing their knowledge of it. Most books illustrating the history of illumination give specimens of the best work in the British Museum and other great collections which may not always be the most representative of the decorations generally met with. Mr. Edward Quaile, of Birkenhead, who possesses a fine collection of ancient illuminated MSS., proposes to do something towards remedying this defect in a work announced by Messrs. H. Young and Sons, of Liverpool, of which 200 copies will be printed early in November. The pictures which iliustrate the volume are copied from "Books of Hours" in Mr. Quaile's own possession, and have been specially chosen as being typical of the various styles of illumination and decoration usually met with by the ordinary collector of MSS.

Politicians-or, at any rate, their secretaries-and journalists frequently find it less easy than they could wish to obtain at a moment's notice information about the political history of recent years. The same difficulty is often felt by other persons less versed in the handling of books of reference. They do not like to appear ignorant of "matters of common knowledge "such as the dates and circumstances of the rise and fall of successive Ministries since 1868, or not to know which Government was responsible for the county councils, and which for free education, or what have been the changes in our relations with foreign Powers during the last 25 years. But they hardly know where to go to obtain with the minimum of trouble at least a decent cloak of facts to veil their ignorance. Something is required which no one at present has exactly supplied.

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Mr. Justin McCarthy's, in many respects, admirable volume now brings" Our Own Times " up to date, and there are other handy books of reference, such as Messrs. Acland and Ransome's, giving chronological lists of events. But they do not entirely meet the case. What is wanted is a compendium of information on special subjects-Education, Labour, Agriculture, the Church, &c.-and on special countries all over the world, preceded by a chronicle of political events, and furnished with an exhaustive index. The foreign part, of course, might require to be thrown into a separate volume. A very large number of persons would, we are sure, be glad of such a work, and the only difficulty that suggests itself in connexion with it is the necessity of re-editing it every two or three years.

Mr. Cedric Chivers, in starting last year his "New Book List" made far the best attempt to produce a really useful bibliography of current literature that we have yet seen, containing a monthly list, with the fullest possible details of each publication, and occasional explanatory notes, arranged alphabetically according to authors' names, each entry being numbered. An alphabetical subject and title index in the middle of the book referring the student to these numbers enabled him to find at a moment's notice not only the particulars of any book published during the month, but also whether during that period a book has been published by a particular author or on a particular subject.

This numbering of the books, as Mr. Chivers says," enables us to compile and issue cumulative indexes at any desired periods and "acts as a code for ordering books at any time. At the end of the year these monthly parts are bound up together into annual volumes, with a new index, under the title "New Catalogue of British Literature." We are sorry to see that in the October List which Mr. Chivers has sent us he abandons the continuous alphabetical list according to authors, and divides the books according to subjects, the list of which is somewhat arbitrarily chosen, and does not, for instance, include "biography" as a separate heading. This very much impairs the usefulness of the book as a means of rapid reference, and the more so as we are not told on which page the different headings will be found, and, although we are promised a "cumulative author and subject and title index," it is not bound up with the October New Book List.

The "Antiquary's Library " of Messrs. Elliot Stock, which began with Mr. M. G. Watkins's useful "Gleanings from the History of the Ancients," follows it up with "Sculptured Signs of Old London," by Mr. Philip Norman, a book which was published some years ago at a high price. Mr. H. B. Wheatley writes a preface to the book. A number of other volumes are announced, the first two being "The History of Fairs," by Cornelius Walford, and "The History of Folk-lore Relics of Early Village Life, by G. L. Gomme.

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It is a satisfaction to know that M. Paul Bourget, whose "Voyageuses" appeared only three or four weeks ago from the presses of M. Alphonse Lemerre, will offer us a new novel "La Dame Bleue" in November, to be published also by M. Lemerre. And it is a satisfaction, not merely because we are to have another story from M. Bourget-this is the third volume he will have brought out this year; we had "Recommencements" in March, and it is still selling like a new book-but because this is the best possible assurance that the quarrel between him and M. Lemerre is being arranged, if it be not indeed entirely settled.

M. Lemerre is also publishing a new novel by M. Remy St. Maurice entitled" Temple d'Amour" and three short stories "Trois Nouvelles," by M. Marcel Prevost whose "Les DemiVierges," if the most popular, is not the most distinguished work he has done. At the beginning of the year M. Lemerre's name will figure on the title pages of stories by M. Paul Hervieu ("Amitié to be published in March), by Daniel Lesueur (Comediennes" for February), by M. Bonnetain ("L'Impasse, also for February, although we should have it at an earlier date

if the anthor were not busy at his post in Indo-China), by M. Rene Maizeroy ("Hors l'Amour"), and by M. André Theuriet, the new Academician whom M. Bourget is shortly to welcome at the Palais Mazarin ("Deuil de Veuve," an illustrated volume also for February).

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That exceedingly useful book by M. Joseph Texte, "JeanJaques Rosseau et les Origines des Cosmopolitisme Litteraire," published by Messrs. Hachette-a book which should immediately be translated into English-suggests other illustrations of the inherent universality of the syntax and genius of the French language. Young's Night Thoughts," in the last century, made for this reason an incredible impression in France. Young was compared to Homer and Eschylus and Pindar. Even in Italy the "sepulchral Young enjoyed hardly less celebrity. The French language in fact tends to eliminate the provincialism in the work of an English or German writer. And this is partly because, as Renan confesses in the preface of his "L'Avenir de la Science " (Calmann Levy), French cannot readily express certain ideas which a subtle writer is tempted to make it express. The French phrase cela n'est pas Francais is the petulant testimony to the French passion for clearness to which Renan had--at first against his will-to submit.

REQUÊTE A NOËL.

Point ne veux pantins ni poupées,
Ni fanfreluches, ni bijoux :
Bon Jésus, garde tes joujoux
Pour les âmes inoccupées !

Mets dans mon sabot de Noël

Le jeune espoir qui nous fait libre,
Mets le désir profond de vivre
Et la fleur qui fleurit au ciel !

Mets le dédain profond des rues,
Des foules, des dérisions;
Mets aussi des illusions
Pour remplacer les disparues.
Mets l'esprit factice et railleur
Qui fait oublier la souffrance,
Mets-y surtout une espérance
En quelque chose de meilleur !
Mets l'orgueil de la fantaisie,
Le courage-rare parfois-
De poursuivre une bonne fis
La route que l'on a choisie !

Mets le succès dans les efforts,

Le travail, sans souci ni doute,
Et, comme étoile sur ma route,
L'orgueil simple qui fait les forts!

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The visit of the King of Siam to the Guimet Museum has called attention to the founder of this Museum of Religions. M. Emile Guimet was born at Lyons in 1836. He has been a great traveller, and has visited Africa, America, China, Japan, India, &c. Having a considerable fortune, he brought back with him most valuable artistic collections and objects of all kinds with which to found a Museum of Religions. This most interesting museum he made over to the city of Paris, but he still continues to watch over it himself with the greatest care. M. Guimet is also a musician and a writer of much talent. He has noted down his impressions, of various countries in the following books:-"Croquis Egyptiens," "Aquarelles Africaines," Promenades Japonaises, "Esquisses Scandinaves," &c.

The city of Lyons seems ever ready to stretch out a helping hand to literary aspirants, and we now hear that a committee has been formed there on very original lines. The members of this committee consider that the writers of to-day take up too many different branches. Young writers, for instance, are frequently compelled to take up what pays, whilst the divine spark of their particular genius has to go on smouldering within them for years, or, perhaps, for ever; and the world is undoubtedly the loser thereby in the end. This Lyons committee proposes that other committees should be formed in France, each one of which shall patronize some specially-determined class of literature, and

Much scepticism is often expressed when stories are told of "finds" of rare books; but a story just now current is fairly well authenticated, and were it not true it is still ben trovato. It relates to Camerari's "Predestinatione," printed in Paris, in 1556, by Matthew Danidis. This particular copy was bound with the emblems of Henry II. and Diane of Poictiers, stamped on the leather cover. It belonged to a member of the De Retz family, who left his library to the Annunziata at Florence. In 1860 this library was seized by the Italian Government and sold publicly, by weight, including, of course, the rare "Predestinatione." The purchaser sold the library at the rate of a penny per volume, and the Danidis printed volume came into the possession of a bookseller, who cleaned its much-begrimed covers and came upon the coveted monogram. Mr. Gibson Craig must have acquired it somehow, as it was sold at the sale of his library; and now a London bookseller catalogues it at £210.

The mid-October number of the Nuova Antologia-the best of the Italian reviews-contains an excellent article by Signor Pasquale Villari, entitled "Due scritti inglesi sul Machiavelli.' It is a criticism of Mr. Morley's Romanes lecture on Machiavelli and of Mr. Greenwood's reply in the August number of Cosmopolis. Signor Villari is of opinion that Machiavelli's greatest merit was that he first dared to state openly the profound difference which exists between the conduct to be observed in public life as distinguished from that which should obtain in private life. Machiavelli's mistake," adds Signor Villari, that he allowed himself too frequently to employ language which was not only exaggerated but even cynical. An article in the same number, by Professor Alfredo Frassati, on Italian foreign politics and the Franco-Kussian alliance, has excited much attention both in Italy and in other countries. Our acknowledgments are due to our Italian contemporary for the cordial welcome it extends to Literature, which it regards as "' another indication that in England the political and economic movement is not dissociated from culture and literary studies."

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The third volume of Mr. Temple Scott's edition of the "Prose Works of Jonathan Swift" is in the press, and will be ready early next year. It is to include all the writings of the Dean which dealt with religion and the Church. The volume to follow will contain Swift's political writings on English affairs. The Irish tracts are to be treated separately. Mr. Scott will be extremely obliged for suggestions or for the loan of the first editions of any of Swift's pamphlets. He undertakes to return them with all care. Communications should be addressed care of George Bell and Sons, York-street, Covent-garden, W.C.

In the Preface to the " Poems of the Love and Pride of England," which Messrs. Ward and Lock are about to issue, edited by Mr. Frederick Wedmore and his daughter, Mr. Wedmore comments on the comparative absence, as far as anthologies are concerned, of any gentle body of teaching in patriotic virtue," and he adds, in part explanation, that, while the worship of Heaven and the admiration of the opposite sex have been from all recorded time a passionate love of England and a pride in her performances, is an affair of at most two or three centuries." Speaking further of the mental attitude in regard to patriotism, in certain corners of England, academic or suburban," a few years ago, Mr. Wedmore contrasts it with the present feeling, which is so much more characteristically a modern note, and suggests that a book of English patriotic verse, hardly now, under the changed circumstances, a needful stimulant, may yet do service in reminding young and old what an inheritance is ours, and what an obligation!"

Mr. Cyril Davenport has nearly completed the series of illustrations which he has been for some time preparing to illustrate the Cantor Lectures, on the origin and art of bookbinding, which he is to deliver in January next. The lectures will be divided into three divisions-Oriental, Medieval, and Modern, and in order to make each section thoroughly representative Mr. Davenport has been at considerable pains to procure the very finest examples in existence. Great difficulty has been experienced in regard to the Oriental bindings of the 15th and 16th centuries, most of which are covered with a thick glaze or varnish, possessing such a hard and brilliant surface as to render it impossible to photograph the designs. It has, therefore, been necessary first of all to copy the designs in black and white, and then photograph them, subsequently completing the photographs in the colours used in the originals. Some idea of the time and labour involved in this process may be gained from the fact that a resplendent quarto binding has to be exactly copied in every detail on a lantern slide only 2 inches long and 2 inches wide.

Mr. Gwenogvryn Evans, of Oxford, will issue at an early date several interesting volumes of old Welsh texts. An autotype facsimile of the oldest Welsh MS. (circa 1200) of the Laws of Havel Dda is now passing through the press at Oxford, and all the negatives for an autotype facsimile of the oldest Latin MS. (circa 1180) of the Laws have also been taken. The text of this MS., which has already been translated into English by An Mr. Henry Owen, B.C.L., will be printed immediately. autotype facsimile on Japanese vellum paper of the Book of Taliesin, with an introduction by Mr. Evans, may shortly be expected.

Probably towards the end of next year Messrs. Bell and Sons will issue the companion work to Mr. Blomfield's "Renaissance Architecture in England," which has just been pub- | lished. It will be written by Mr. Edward S. Prior, and will bear the title "English Gothic Architecture and Art." Mr. Prior, beginning with the transition from the style which was common to both England and Normandy, will show the growth of English Gothic and its relations to, and differences from, that of Northern France, vindicating its claim to originality and to independent development as an extension of the national genius and temperament. The illustrations to the work will consist entirely of drawings by Mr. Gerald Horsley, executed from the actual examples.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

THE NORTH-WEST FRONTIER OF INDIA.

The following list of books does not include works bearing on the advance of Russia in Asia, or on "The Eastern Question,' in so far as it includes the relations of England and Russia on the Indian border. It includes only works bearing on the relation of the British Empire in India to neighbouring tribes, and works descriptive and historical about the country and people of the North-West Frontier :

General :

OUR INDIAN PROTECTORATE, an Introduction to the Study of the Relations between the British Government and its Indian Feudatories. By C. L. Tupper, I.C.S. 1893.

HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES. May and Aug., 1893, Aug., 1894.

PROBLEMS OF GREATER BRITAIN. By Sir C. W. Dilke. 1890. INDIA. By Sir John Strachey, G.C.S.I. New and Revised Edition. 1894.

INDIA'S SCIENTIFIC FRONTIER. By Col. H. B. Hanna, 1895. (Indian Problems Series.)

INDIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS, and OUR SCIENTIFIC FRONTIER. By Sir W. P. Andrew, 1878-1880.

ASIATIC NEIGHBOURS. By S. S. Thorburn, Bengal C.S. 1894. ENGLISH COLONIZATION AND EMPIRE. By A. Caldecott. (University Extension Manuals.) 1891.

The Frontier Wars.-A few out of the enormous number of volumes published on these wars, especially the later ones, may be mentioned :

FORTY-NINE YEARS IN INDIA. By Lord Roberts. 1897.

THE RELIEF OF CHITRAL. By Captains G. J. and F. E. Younghusband. 1895.

THE CHITRAL CAMPAIGN. A Narrative of Events in Chitral, Swat, and Bajour. By H. C. Thomson. 1895.

THREE CAMPAIGNS IN AFGHANISTAN. Lt. C. G. Robertson. 1881.

THE AFGHAN WARS, 1839-42 and 1878-80. Archibald Forbes. 1892.

HISTORY OF THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, 1838-1842. By Sir J. W. Kaye. 3 vols. 1878.

THE AFGHAN CAMPAIGNS OF 1878-80. By S. H. Shadbolt. 2 vols. 1883.

Descriptive and Historical.

THE TRIBES AND CASTES OF THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES AND ОUDH. By W. Crooke. 4 vols. Calcutta. 1896.

THE NORTH-WEST PROVINCES OF INDIA, their History, Ethnology, and Administration. By W. Crooke. 1897.

THE INDIAN EMPIRE. By Sir W. W. Hunter. 1893. THE IMPERIAL GAZETEER OF INDIA. By Sir W. W. Hunter. 2nd Ed. 1887. [See Vols. I., VI., X., XI.]

THE HEART OF A CONTINENT. A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria across the Gobi Desert through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral. 1884-94. By Capt. F. E. Younghusband. 1896.

THE KAFIRS OF THE HINDOO KUSH. By Sir G. S. Robertson. 1896.

TRIBES OF THE HINDOO KOOSH. By Major J. B. Biddulph. 1880.

ABRIDGMENT OF THE HISTORY OF INDIA. By J. Clark MarshNew Edition, issued after the author's death. 1893. Afghanistan

man.

HISTORY OF AFGHANISTAN TO 1878. By Colonel G. B. Malleson. 1882.

A SHORT HISTORY OF INDIA, and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal, and Burma. By J. Talboys Wheeler. 1880. ACROSS THE BORDER, or Pathan and Biluch. By E. E. Oliver. 1890.

THE CHITRAL RELIEF EXPEDITION. 1895. Photographic Views taken during the advance of the Relief Force under General Gatacre. By Sergeant-Major Develin. 1895. See also:

THE STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. Vol. 175.

THE ASIATIC QUARTERLY REVIEW. Apr., 1894; Jan., July, and Oct., 1895.

THE UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. July, 1895.

ARCHEOLOGY.

The Ruins and Excavations of Ancient Rome. By R. Lanciani. 8x54in., xiii.+631 pp. London and New York, 1897. Macmillan. 16s. Egypt Exploration Fund : Archæological Report, 189697. With Maps. By F. L. Griffiths, M.A. 10x8in., 70 pp London and Boston, 1897.

Kegan Paul. 2s. 6d. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archeologist. By J. Romilly Allen, F.S.A. 10 × 7in., 256 pp. London and Derby, 1897. Bemrose. 12s. net.

8x54in.,

The True George Washington. By Paul Ford. 319 pp. London, 1897.

Lippincott. 7s. 6d.

The Life of Bishop Maples. By His Sister. 8x5 in., viii.+403 pp. London, 1897. Longmans. 7s. 6d. Life of E. B. Pusey, D.D. Vol. IV. by H. P. Liddon, 9×6in., xvi.+ 461 pp. London, 1897. Longmans. 18s. Verdi: Man and Musician. By Frederick Crowest. 94×6in., xiv.+ 306 pp. London, 1897.

John Milne. 78. 6d. Mary Queen of Scots: from her birth to her flight into England. By David Fleming. Cr. 8vo., 556 pp. London, 1897. Hodder. 7s. 6d. Life of Roddy Owen. By His Sister, Mai Bovill, and G. R. Askwith. 81x5lin., vii.+279 pp. London, 1897.

Murray.

EDUCATIONAL.

Italian Self Taught, Spanish Self Taught, German Self Taught. By Thimms. 3 vols. 71x4 in. London, 1897.

Marlborough. 1s. 6d. cach.

The Building of the Intellect. By Douglas M. Gane. 7×5in., ix. + 139 pp. London, 1897. Stock. Our Boys. By Rev. S. B. James. 8x5 in., 283 pp. London, 1897. Roxburghe Press. 3s. 6d.

FICTION. Revolt. A Tale for the Times. By Richard Darlley. 7×5in., 384 pp. London, 1897. John Kensit. 3s. 6d. Chirrupee. By E. Boyd Bayly. 8x6in., 47 pp. London, 1897. Hodder. 1s. A Daughter of Strife. By Jane H. Findlater. 8×5 in., 284 pp. London, 1897. Methuen. 68. Clovis Dardentor. By Jules Verne. 71x5in, 320 pp. London, 1897. Sampson Low. Katherine Cromer. By Helen Craven. 8x54in., 334 pp. London, 1897. Innes. 6s. Miss Mouse and Her Boys. By Mrs. Molesworth. 74×5in., 198 pp. London and New York, 1897.

Clear Waters. By Frederick
Langbridge. 7×5in., 62 pp. Lon-
don, 1897.
Cassell. 1s.
The Comely Maids. By Mary
Lon-
Pendered. 7×54in., 328 pp.
don 1897. Hutchinson. 3s. 6d.
By
A Prince of Mischance.
Tom Gallon. 8x54in., viii.+361 pp.
London, 1897. Hutchinson. 6s.
Lochinvar. By S. R. Crockett.
8×5 in., 447 pp. London, 1897.
Methuen. 6s.
The Vicar of Langthwaite. By
Lily Watson. 74x5lin., 345 pp.
London, 1897.
J. Clarke. 58.
Down by the Suwanee River.
By Aubrey Hopwood. 8×5 in.,
282 pp. London, 1897.
Kegan Paul. 6s.
The Green Men of Norwell.
By Mary Rowsell. 6×4in., 87 pp.
London, 1897. Simpkin Marshall.
The Craftsman. By Rowland
London
Grey. 64×44in., 198 pp.
and New York, 1897.
Ward, Lock. 28.
Rob Roy. By Sir Walter Scott.
8x54in., lxviii. +376 pp. London,
1897. Service and Paton. 2s. 6d.
The Last Days of Pompeii. By
Lord Lytton. 74x5in., xii.+400
pp. London, 1897.

Secretary to

Digby, Long. 6s.

Bayne, M.P. By W. Pett Ridge. 7x5lin., 308 pp. London, 1897. Methuen. 68. The Chronicles of Christopher Bates. By Ebenezer Rees. 8x54in., 253 pp. London, 1897.

The Roxburghe Press. 3s. 6d. The Flamp, and other Stories for Children. By E. V. Lucas. 5×3in., 160 pp. London, 1897. Grant Richards. 1s. 6d. Netherdyke. By R. J. Charleton. 8x5 in., vi.+306 pp. London and Arnold. 6s. New York, 1897.

The Laughter of Jove. By
Helmuth Schwartze. 8×5 in., 356
pp. London, 1897.
Grant Richards. 6s.

1897.

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