for a subject that can be made to extend to any required length; so I make my bow and retire. But I will send MR. J. F. PALMER another, if he will let me know his address. WALTER W. SKEAT. "LANKY MAN" (8th S. viii. 167, 313; ix. 38). -For "Cerve" read Cerne. General Pitt Rivers is not only protector, but owner of the Cerne Giant. It is on one of the Rivers estates. H. J. MOULE. Dorchester. ARMORIAL SEAL (8th S. viii. 429; ix. 12).The sinister coat appears to be one of the coats borne by the family of Bate or Bates, though the hands are usually borne bendwise, I fancy. I have not access to an armory at present. If MR. FLOYD could send me an impression of the seal, I should be greatly obliged; and may be a hunt among my papers will give the alliance. PERCY H. BATE. Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Excursions in Libraria. By G. H. Powell. (Lawrence & Bullen.) MR. POWELL's new volume of 'Retrospective Reviews and Bibliographical Notes' is a study something akin to the well-known Mélanges tirés d'une Petite Bibliothèque' of Charles Nodier. The majority of the volumes with which critically or bibliographically Mr. Powell deals are, he informs us, in his own collection, though the resources of the British Museum have occasionally been taxed. Books written under such conditions are always a delight to the author, and have not seldom a keen interest for a book-loving public. Mr. Powell expressly declares that his book, "with all the misgivings of a first venture," is addressed rather to the collector of books as books than to him who regards them as "antiquities or objects of exoteric virtu." Enough is said concerning scarce books, though rarely the scarcest, to appeal to the lovers of editions. With its reproductions of printers' devices, of title-pages, and the like, with the pleasant insight it furnishes into books which are as much the delight of the few as they are "caviaire to the general," and with its agreeable gossip about all things and quibusdam aliis connected with books, the volume merits a welcome. We should be thankful now and then for a little more information. When Mr. Powell reproduces the title-page and the last leaf of Constantini, Lascaris de octo Orationes Partibus Nic. de Sabro,' Venice, 1539, both presenting the cat and the mouse, he might tell us that Dibdin said the books containing that device were nearly always worth looking after as containing something curious. We quote from a distant memory and with no pretence to verbal accuracy. In illustration of the truth, we take out a "Dialogo de M. Lodovico Dolce. In Venetia, Appressi Giouan battista Sessa e Fratelli," a most curious system of mnemonics, which also has a cat and mouse device differing wholly from that reproduced. Designs of Giolito, Morel, Estienne, and the like, are familiar in most libraries of sixteenth century foreign books. Concerning Estienne Mr. Powell says that his 'Traité de la " is a Conformité.' in the original edition 1566, containing passages afterwards mutilated and suppressed, historic rarity." We admit this. Not balf a dozen copies can be found. We have one, however, intact, without a carton, previously unknown and picked up for a few shillings in London. The find is chronicled in Mr. Roberts's just published Book-Hunter in London.' The book was shown to Mr. Turner, the eminent bookcollector in the Albany, who laughed incredulously at the notion of such a find, but owned, with a sigh, its genuineness. We are rather comparing notes with Mr. Powell than reviewing his book, and may, perhaps, be taxed with assertiveness. When he talks about the Froissart of Jan de Tourner as the first edited Froissart of a spotless large-paper copy as well as of earlier black-peu commune, as Brunet says-we proffer him a sight letter editions, less well edited, perhaps, but bien moins communes. We have read Mr. Powell's book through, and commend it to lovers of books. It is unequal in "La grande meurt," treatment and not free from slips: c., for La Garde meurt, and so forth. It is, however, very agreeable reading, and it introduces the reader in very pleasant fashion to many books among which will inevitably be found some to which he is a stranger. Its illustrations are excellent, and there are few bibliophiles by whom it will not be welcomed. The Tempest. Introduction by Dr. F. J. Furnivall. (Redway.) WE have here the first part of an edition of Shakspeare that offers great attractions and advantages to the student. It is what is known as the "Double - Text of a goodly imperial octavo volume are printed separate Dallastype Shakespeare." On the two opposite pages simile of the First Folio, that on the verso Knight's final texts that on the recto an exact reproduction in facmodern text. The prospectus of the scheme has been for some time before the public, and has secured the warmest and Berlin. Quite obvious are the advantages it offers. approval of Shakspearian scholars in England, America, As Mr. Horace Howard Furness says of the facsimile text, "the blessed sun himself comes to our aid, and whatever the printed page can reveal does reveal." As in facsimile, the Droeshout portrait, and Ben Jonson's a concomitant of this we have with The Tempest,' also lines, which comparatively few of the original editions supply in a perfect state. We have also reprinted in Dallastype, from the copy in the British Museum, the music of Ariel's two songs, Full Fathome Five' and 'Where the Bee Sucks,' by Robert Johnson, taken from nivall supplies an introduction, marked by his customary 'Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads,' Oxford, 1660. Dr. Furoutspokenness and erudition, by which the reader cannot fail to profit. Such notes from preceding editions, from Stevens and Malone to Henley and Furness, as are supplied are included in the glossarial index furnished by Messrs. Frederick A. Hyndman and D. C. Dallas. They include some conjectural emendations, including some from N. & Q.,' notably upon that much discussed line of Ferdinand, "Most busie lest, when I doe it." The execution of the work is excellent in all respects, typographical and other. It would not be difficult to maintain that of the various facsimiles yet attempted or accomplished this is likely to be of most genuine and widespread service. Social England Series.-The King's Peace: a Historical Sketch of the English Law Courts. By F. A. Inderwick, Q.C. (Sonnenschein & Co.) MR. INDERWICK is one of the very few members of the Inner Bar who have sought and found distinction in literature. Within the last seven years he has published no fewer than four books. His Sidelights on the 60 Stuarts' appeared in 1888, The Interregnum ' in 1891, Since writing these lines we find that the work of demolition has already begun, and the "housebreaker is in possession of the Rolls House. Is the Rolls Chapel also doomed? Lights in the Darkness. By Emily S. Holt. (Shaw.) MANY admirers of our late correspondent HERMENTRUDE may be glad to know of the publication of four posthumous stories or sketches from her pen, headed respectively Alfred the Great,' Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, Lawrence Saunders,' and Katharine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk.' They have all the characteristics of the larger works to which we frequently directed attention. West, M.D., and W. J. Walsham, F.R.C.S. Vol. XXX. St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports. Edited by Samuel (Smith, Elder & Co.) "PRACTICE versus Theory" should stand as a sub-title to a volume of hospital reports. Viewed in this light, all who are interested in chloroform administration will welcome the Notes on Chloroform - Anesthesia, by Richard Gill, for its practical utility. The article A Second Year's Surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital,* measures with the results of a year's surgery during by Henry T. Butlin, is written from the same standpoint, and compares a year's surgery under strict antiseptic which time an attempt was made to dispense with some of the rigid details of the antiseptic method. A suggestive paper on 'The Dietetic Values of Food-Stuffe prepared by Plants,' by the Rev. George Henslow, F.L.S., is worthy of attention; and the Wix Prize Essay for the year 1894, on the Life and Works of Percivall Pott," by Thomas J. Horder, B.Sc. Lond., will be read with interest by all old Bartholomew's men. The conservatism of our judicial system is strikingly shown by Mr. Inderwick in The King's Peace. Even the robes which the judges now wear are almost similar to those worn in the times of the Plantagenets. When the practice of advocacy was first introduced into this country it is impossible accurately to determine. It seems to have grown with the expansion of our legal system; but it is clear that it existed in Edward I.'s time. Why barristers still continue to wear the bands of the Commonwealth and the headdress of the Restoration Mr. Inderwick is unable to explain, though he does not fail to point out that in the two highest Courts of Appeal in this country-viz., the House of Lords and the Privy Council-the judges now sit without either wigs or judicial robes. Until the amalgamation of the Queen's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer in the Supreme Court of Judicature, which occurred in 1875, the collar of SS was worn by the chiefs of the three Courts. The history of some of these collars is exceedingly curious; but we have only space to refer to two or three. Lord Ellenborough, whose collar could be traced back through his predecessors to Sir Matthew Hale. retained it on his retirement. Lord Denman presented his to the CorporaMR. R. H. FRYAR, of Bath, announces, in an edition tion of Derby. The old Exchequer collar, the descent of which could be traced back something like a century and a half, was retained by the widow of Sir Richard limited to one hundred copies, all to be subscribed for, Richards, who died in 1823. Lord Coleridge, who suc-Tales from the Perfumed Garden of the Cheikh ceeded, as the last Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Neizaoui.' to the collar worn by Sir Edward Coke, left it as an heirloom to such of his heirs as should succeed to the title of Lord Coleridge. The collar which the present Lord Chief Justice wears belonged to his illustrious predecessor Sir Alexander Cockburn, who entailed it upon all future holders of the office of Lord Chief Justice. The perusal of The King's Peace' can be confidently MANY of our readers will learn with regret that the signatures J. D., JAYDEE, and JAMES DIXON will disappear from our pages, Mr. Dixon having died at a comparatively advanced age. We are destitute of biographical particulars, which some correspondent may perhaps be able to supply. Notices to Correspondents. We must call special attention to the following notices: address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but WE cannot undertake to answer queries privately. 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