equally to be commended. In the case of Gounod It is related in 'John Francis and the Athenæum' there are some interesting facsimiles. The Clergy Directory and Parish Guide, 1904. (Phillips.) IN due course this best of guides to the clergy of the Established Church makes its appearance. It supplies, as before, an alphabetical list of the clergy, with their qualifications, order, appoint. ment, &c.; a list of parishes and parochial districts; the diocesan and cathedral establishments; and other kindred matter. One or two improvements in an indispensable volume may be discovered by the careful reader. In a prolonged use of the work we have not come upon an inaccuracy. WE are indebted to Mr. Henry Frowde, of the Oxford Press, for one of the hundred copies of the presentation edition of A Chart of Oxford Printing, 1468-1900, with notes and illustrations by Falconer Madan. Mr. Madan states in the preface that "an attempt has been made in this book to exhibit the fluctuations in the output of the Printing Press at Oxford, and to illustrate them by some annals, notes, and lists. A paper on this subject was read before the Oxford Architectural and Historical Society on February 7, 1888, and a lecture from notes was given before the Bibliographical Society on October 20, 1902 (see the news sheet of the latter Society for November, 1902)." Mr. Frowde invited him to reproduce the notes and a manuscript chart exhibited at the lecture in the Periodical of December, 1902, and the Council kindly allowed this to be done. "At Mr. Frowde's suggestion this larger chart has been prepared. The whole of the statistics have been computed afresh for the purpose, and almost everything in the book now issued is new. כי The first book printed at Oxford is given as December 17, 1468, but at the foot of the beautiful facsimile of its first page Mr. Madan puts a note of interrogation (1478?). The press appears to have had no connexion with the works of Caxton. The first book printed at the second press was on December 4, 1517. In 1585, with 100%. lent by the University, Joseph Barnes commenced printing; and the Oxford Press has been in continuous activity ever since. In 1636-7 the University handed over to the Stationers' Company all its rights of printing Bibles, Lily's Grammar,' &c., for three years, in consideration of receiving 2007. a year. The first type-founding at Oxford was about 1667. The actual founder seems to have been Peter Walpergen, a Dutchman from Batavia. 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