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Messrs. S. Drayton & Sons' Exeter List 211 contains Kelley's American Yachts, their Clubs and Races,' 25 beautifully coloured plates, signed artists' proofs, 1884, 57. 58. (published at 217.). A set of Thackeray, Library Edition, 22 vols., half-morocco, is 81. 8s.; and the best edition of Notitia Monastica,' folio, calf, 1781, 4l. 48. There are lists under Freemasonry, Ireland, Military, Naval, and Theology.

Mr. James Dunn's Edinburgh Catalogue 106 contains a complete set of a curious publication, The Castle Spectre, October, 1876, to October, 1888, edited by A. D. Forbes, 4to, half-morocco, 78. 6d. Of this only 140 copies of each number were published. The earlier numbers contain woodcuts by Ella, daughter of John Hill Burton. "The Aldine Poets,' 52 vols., Bell & Daldy, are 11. 12s. Under Dickens is the first edition of 'Master Humphrey's Clock,' 3 vols. in 1, 88. 6d. There is a list under Highlands and Highlanders. Under Hora Sabbaticæ is the reprint of articles by Sir James F. Stephen from The Saturday Review, 3 vols., 2s. 6d. ; and under Linguistic we find Anglo-Saxon and Danish works. A copy of Maclise's Gallery of Literary Characters,' 4to, is cheap at 58. There are a number of works under Scottish. A considerable portion of the Catalogue is devoted to divinity, including works by Lightfoot, Matheson, Martineau, Newman, Dr. Parker, Spurgeon, Westcott, and others. There is a Cheap List at the end.

Mr. John Orr's Edinburgh List 24 contains a most interesting collection of pamphlets and tracts, the prices being very moderate. reminiscence of a popular exhibition is Banvard's

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Adventures of an Artist,' 1849, 1s. 6d. The author was the painter of the panorama of the Mississippi exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. Altogether different is The Chaldee Manuscript,' which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, October, 1817, 28. The publication of this fell like a thunderbolt on Edinburgh. The copies were immediately bought up, and the :second edition did not contain the offensive article. See Notes by the Way,' by John C.

Francis, p. 20. There are pamphlets under mons on various occasions, some relating to the Free Church, Ireland, and Jacobite, besides serRebellion in Scotland. Under Napoleon is the Authentic Trial of Marshal Ney,' with memoir. Chinese, and others; and under Population is a Among newspapers is a collection of early Indian, Britain, 1810-11, 1821-31.' Comparative Account of the Population of Great privately printed books. There are some phlets are Wilberforce's' Appeal,' 1823, and ClarkAmong slavery pamson on Colonies." The Condition of Slaves in the British The section devoted to Maps, Views, Plans, &c., includes a map of Africa, 1652, 58. 6d. ; one of Arabia, 1802, 2s. 6d. ; a number of early American maps; Thomson's series of old large-scale maps of the Edinburgh city plans; and counties of Scotland. The first item under Old Views in Scotland is a fine portrait picture of the St. Andrews "Medal Day," 1898, with hundreds of portraits of golf notables, including Mr. A. J. Balfour, Tom Morris, F. G. Tait, &c. This was taken in front of the old Golf House, is an India

proof, and offered at 21. 58. (published at 71. 78.).

Messrs. Sotheran's Price Current 701- opens with two unique collections of Election Literature and Art: the first, 1880, contains 650 illustrations, including a fine series of portraits, 7 vols., 301.; the second relates to the General Election of 1885, 10 vols., 35l. Under America is a rare early newspaper, The Pennsylvania Packet, Jan. 2nd, 1781, to Dec. 1st, 1781, and Dec. 29th, 1781, in 1 vol. folio (five numbers wanting), halfcalf, 301. The list is rich in botanical works, including a fine copy of Curtis's Flora Lonand a tall copy of Sowerby, very scarce, 241. dinensis,' 31. 10s.; Sander's Orchids,' 45l.; general portion includes Blake's The Heaven and Hell,' 1885, 41. 4s.; Combe's CamMarriage of bridge,' 2 vols., 4to, very scarce, 157, 158.; Lysons's an uncut copy of Nichols's 'Leicestershire,' 1251.; with over 150 plates, 1813-22, 521. 108.; and the Magna Britannia,' further illustrated first edition of Paradise Regained,' original sheep, entries include the Second Folio, with the extraa tall and perfect copy, 751. The Shakespeare ordinarily rare Smethwick title-page (the editor of Lowndes could only cite the example now in the Lenox Library, New York), 2201.; also the Third Folio, 2001., and two copies of the Fourth Folio. There are works under Costume, Entomology, Heraldry, London, Military, Music, Ornithology, &c. Music includes a set of Handel's Works, edited by Arnold, 41 vols., royal folio, tree calf, 1785-97, 177. 178.

inference as to the presence or absence of hedges, and the accuracy of a surveyor's plan can hardly be expected from an artist's sketch.

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roads, and then ventured to proceed only because fourteen members of the House of Commons, who were going up in a body to Parliament with guides and numerous attendants, took him into their company.' "-P. 372.

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The first part of this statement has been several times circumstantially controverted. The authority given for the second is Nelson's 'Life. This is what Nelson says:—

Mr. Bull wrote and published this his learned and judicious Treatise, of the Defence of the Nicene Faith, during the time he was Rector of Suddington, where he had now continued about twenty-seven years; and for twenty years of that time had no other preferment in the Church, but those two parishes united after the manner that hath been already related, the income whereof did not amount to above 1007. a year, clear of taxes. He found himself very early under a necessity of making such a provision of books, as might enable him to carry on his theological studies, which cost him several hundred pounds, for he was placed at a distance from any public library, which is a great advantage to those who can enjoy such a benefit. family grew numerous by a large stock of children, who were to be maintained and educated; his friends were always received with great hospitality, and the poor with a charity that bordered upon profuseness; with all this he had several great losses, and had no great talent in that wisdom which consisteth in managing an estate to the best advantage; by these means he was reduced to great straits, and by degrees, was under a necessity of selling his patrimonial estate, to maintain himself in the service of the Church."Ed. 1713, p. 347.

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Scotch gentry, who must of necessity be at the Parliament at the time appointed, we ventured upon our journey (being fourteen in company); having the post and a guide, we found some part of the road better than we expected."-3 Jan., 1709.

8. Vanbrugh....described with great humour the way in which a country gentleman....went up to London. On that occasion all the exertions of six beasts, two of which had been taken from the plough, could not save the family coach from being imbedded in a quagmire."-P. 376.

What Vanbrugh says is :

They have added two cart-horses to the four old geldings."- Journey to London,' I. i. He does not mention a quagmire.

9. "Cotton seems, from his 'Angler,' to have found room for his whole library in his hall window."-P. 392, foot-note. Nothing can be inferred as to the number of Cotton's own books from the fact that Piscator says to Viator (chap. x.): “I will myself dress you this dish of fish for your dinner; walk but into the parlour [not the hall], you will find one book or other in the window to entertain you the while." Churchill Babington has already pointed out that, even if a personal application could be given to the passage, Cotton would have most of his books in a library or study.

10. "For the copyright [of the Fables] Dryden received 2501."-P. 401.

that the sum was 250 guineas for the first The contract to which Macaulay refers says edition. Dryden also received some hundreds for the complimentary Epistles and Dedications; and his widow received fifty guineas for the second edition.

11. "The second edition was not required till the author had been ten years in his grave.' P. 401.

Dryden died in 1700; the second edition was published in 1713.

IV. QUERIES.

1. In a foot-note on p. 282 some lines are said to be quoted from Great Britain's Beauty, 1671.' I have failed to find this poem in the Catalogue of the British Museum (probably because I do not know the author's name), but the title closely

resembles an entry in Lowndes : 'Great Britain's Glory, or a brief Description of the Splendor and Magnificence of the Royal Exchange.. presented to the Merchants of London,' 1672.

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Raleigh....served during many years as a 2. soldier in France, the Netherlands, and Ireland."P. 300.

Did Raleigh ever serve in the Netherlands ? and can his service in France and Ireland be said to extend over years"?

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3. From him [Sir Christopher Mings] sprang by a singular kind of descent a line of valiant and expert sailors. His cabin boy was Sir John Narborough, and the cabin boy of Sir John Narhorough was Sir Cloudesley Shovel."-P. 303. Is there any proof that Narborough ever was cabin boy to Mings? and is there any proof that Shovel began his career under Narborough ?

4. "Patrick [preached] at St. Paul's, Covent Garden."-P. 330.

John Patrick, the champion of Protestantism, was a preacher at the Charterhouse from 1671 till his death in 1695. When was he connected with St. Paul's?

5. The Christian name of Heming, the "ingenious projector" who devised a plan for lighting London, is given (p. 361) as Edward. The 'D.N.B.,' which quotes Macaulay's account as sole authority, gives the name as Edmund. Which is right? Neither Christian name nor surname is mentioned in the lines On the Late Invention of the New Lights,' published in State Poems continued from the time of O. Cromwel to the year 1697 (1719), p. 243.

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6. "If the King notified his pleasure.... that a libertine baronet should be made a peer the gravest counsellors after a little murmuring submitted."—P. 364.

foot-note:

Macaulay supports his statement by a See....Clarendon's account of the way in which Sir George Savile was made a peer."

Clarendon gives ('Life,' ed. 1759, iii. 566) an account of the unsuccessful attempt of the Duke of York to induce Charles to make Savile a viscount. Does he anywhere give an account of a successful effort?

Miss Foxcroft in her Life of the First Marquis of Halifax' (i. 39) quotes the passage from Clarendon to which Macaulay refers, and adds in a foot-note: "He does not seem to realize that the Savile in question is identical with Halifax." To me it is inconceivable that Macaulay did not realize the identity. My own theory is that he did

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The main fact is that there are two ancient cradles which have long belonged to Gloucestershire, and both have equally claimed to be that in which Henry V. was rocked as an infant. Since, however, the Badminton cradle, though extremely interesting, cannot be older than the sixteenth century (and is probably no earlier than Elizabethan days), it would seem unnecessary to refer further to it in this connexion. Nevertheless, this Tudor cradle came from the Vaughan family at Courtfield, near Ross, co. Monmouth, whither Henry V. was taken to be nursed as a weakly infant. Probably to this fact has been due the tradition that this cradle had been the royal one. Courtfield lies at a distance of about seven miles from Monmouth. The cradle left Courtfield about 1830, and became the property of the Duke of Beaufort at Troy House,

With regard to the earlier cradle, there seems no reason to question the pedigree given to it in the sale catalogue. It had belonged to the Rev. Peregrine Ball, Vicar of Newland, co. Glos., 1745/6-94. He, it is believed, claimed that it had descended to him from an ancestor who had performed the duty of male-rocker to the infant prince, and who Hence this bore the same name of Ball. cradle also must have been once at Courtfield, where Lady Montacute, heiress of Thomas de Monthermer, had care of the child. In The London Magazine of March, 1774 (p. 135), it is described as the cradle of Edward II., though doubtless in error.

Mr. Ball's son gave his heirloom to Mr. Whitehead of Hambrook, Frenchay, near Bristol, whence it probably came into the collection of Mrs. Barnes of Redland Hall, at the sale of which (22 Oct., 1833) the Rev. It is Mr. G. W. Braikenridge purchased it. described in Grose's Antiquarian Reperstory (vol. ii. pp. 371–2), 1808, and in Bingley's Tour through North Wales,' 1774, as well as in Coxe, 1801.*

The cradle measures 3 ft. 9 in. in length, is 3 ft. high, and is slung from a post at each end. It is surmounted by an eagle. There is no heraldic device it. upon

Inquiries made at Newland and at Monmouth elicited not only no trace of the Rev. Peregrine Ball, but denials of his having been a vicar there; nevertheless, he appears duly (Mr. F. S. Hockaday tells me) in the rediscovered Diocesan Registers of co. Glos. as having been presented to Newland by the Bishop of Llandaff, 11 Feb. 1745/6.

The cradle is to be seen in the Hall of the Armoury at Windsor.

ST. CLAIR BADDELEY.

The Doctor's comment runs thus :—

"I know not how the commentators understand this important passage, which, in Dr. Warburton's edition, is marked as eminently beautiful, and, in the whole, not without justice. But Shakespeare seems to have confounded a man's shoes with his gloves. He that is frighted or harried may put his hand into the wrong glove, but either The author shoe will equally admit either foot. seems to be disturbed by the disorder which he describes."

In a long and interesting letter to The Nation, dated 19 Aug., 1908, Mr. Thomas Seccombe refutes Prof. Raleigh's conclusions. Inter alia Mr. Seccombe says:

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The lowest organizations of footgear, such as slippers (it should be superfluous to point out), are made without heels, and are interchangeable. For other reasons, the most highly organized forms of footgear, such as waders and jack-boots, are on the straight principle. The also made jack-boot, for instance, which was at one time peculiar to the tribe of postilions, would have lost half its utility, so great was the friction of the right calf against the pole, had not the legs been interchangeable. But in the intermediate forms of shoe, or low,' high-low,' the tasselled Hessian (dear to the heart of Jos. Sedley), and the lesser people' of the boot tribe generally, no such lawless state of indifference can have ever prevailed; and it is absurd to suppose that Johnson was oblivious of distinctions which were made in mediæval armour, and were universally observed by the whole race of cordonniers from the time of St. Crispin downwards. Johnson slightly confuses counsel, it may be confessed, by using the word 'shoe' a synonym for slipper,' an effeminate word for which he experienced a contempt similar to that he felt for the word 'liqueur,' and for the French character."

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Mr. Seccombe adds the interesting news that

the boot with which Johnson by kicking a stone refuted Berkeley is said to be preserved in the library of Mr. A. M. Broadley, and, like his extra-illustrated edition of Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Thrale in 35 volumes elephant folio is said to be destined for the birthplace of the illustrious Imlac at Lichfield."

I note that slippers may be called "interchangeable," but that the ordinary person, either in King John's time or our own, would probably get the habit of putting one foot into one definite slipper, which would so fit it as to make the other seem less apt. In the first place, one foot is, I believe, generally bigger than the other, so that the wrong slipper would feel uncomfortable on it. Callosities, too, of a painful nature existing on one foot only might be unduly pressed by a slipper which usually

went well on the other foot.

I am not sufficiently expert in boots to say what is the footgear worn by Johnson

Garb' which figures between pp. 220 and