other school of the same period is fully recognized abroad. The Rev. R. L. Gales is rather scrappy on The Christian Lore of Angels,' and might have referred to books which supply more detail. A Dog of Constantinople,' a canine autobiography by Mr. Gilbert Watson, is capital reading, and affords a change from the Imperial affairs with which The National is apt to be overweighted. BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. SEPTEMBER. MR. L. C. BRAUN's Catalogue 65 contains the 1775 edition of Ariosto, 4 vols., half-calf, 31. 108.; Stockdale's edition of Gay's Fables, 1793, 31. 108.; and 'Paris à travers les Ages,' by Hoffbauer, text by Fournier and others, 3 vols., large folio, green morocco, 41. 48. There are first editions of Vathek,' 1786, and Leigh Hunt's 6 Men, Women, and Books. French Literature includes Béranger's memoirs, with a 3-page autograph letter by the poet. There are works under Bibliography and Printing, Natural History, Poetry, and Old and Curious. A MS. of the first English newspaper, The English Mercurie, No. 51, Whitehall, July 26th, 1588, is 21. 28. A note in it says, "There is a MS. copy n the British Museum, but not a printed one, a printed copy not known to exist. This is an exact copy of the one in the British Museum." The catalogue closes with engraved views and portraits, including many views of old London. Mr. Richard Cameron's Edinburgh Catalogue 232 contains the facsimile issue of the Kilmarnock edition of Burns, 11. 5s.; the Édition de Luxe of Burton's Book-Hunter,' 168. 6d., and Payne Collier's 'Criticisms on the Bar,' which, the 'D.N.B.' says, injuriously affected his prospects a lawyer. Under Heraldry will be found Nisbet's Heraldic Plates,' originally intended for his System of Heraldry,' 1l. 168. 6d. Under Edinburgh Theatre there are playbills of 1843-4 and it is needless to say there are plenty of works of Scottish interest. as Messrs. S. Drayton & Sons of Exeter send two Catalogues, Nos. 218 and 219. The first is a general list. We note a set of The Ancestor, il. 108. Under Dickens are first editions of A Child's History' and' Nicholas Nickleby,' and under George Eliot the first edition of Silas Marner.' Under English Coronation Records is Mr. Wickham Legg's work, 1. 18.; under Augustus Hare, The History of My Life,' 6 vols., 178. 6d. (out of print); and under Dr. Johnson, 'The English Poets,' 68 vols., calf, 1779, 17. 15s. There are many works relating to Devon, including Ellacombe's Church Bells,' 27. 108. There are also lists under Egypt, Assyria, and Palestine, and other subjects. " 1881, 27. 28.; under Hogarth, the_1821_edition Their Catalogue 160 is devoted to Engraved Portraits. These include John Ayres, teacher of writing, who introduced the Italian hand into England; the Duke of Bridgewater, the great Promoter of inland navigation; Combe, author of The Tour of Dr. Syntax'; Frost, the Chartist; and Halley, the predicter of the return of the celebrated comet. 57. 158. ; Mr. Charles J. Sawyer's Catalogue 22 contains a fine copy of the first edition of Goldsmith's Traveller, 157. 158.; a largest-paper copy of Boydell's Thames, 2 vols., full morocco, 211.; the second issue of the first edition of La Fontaine, a sound, tall copy of the 'Nuremberg Chronicle,' all the woodcuts coloured, 1493, Under bibliography are the works issued by the 57. 128. 6d.; and Ackermann's 'Oxford,' 137. 10s. Grolier Club. There is the complete unexpurgated edition of Balzac. Dickens items include the first editions of Copperfield,' Martin Chuzzlewit,' and 'Master Humphrey's Clock.' There is an extra-illustrated copy of Pilkington's Painters,' and a collection of Kent drawings and views from the Hovenden Collection. An unpublished MS. written by Zechariah Cozens, being an Ecclesiastical Topographical History of Kent,' 2 large volumes, is priced 351. Among autographs are a letter of Carlyle's to Weinman referring to Hun"Eastern Questions,' gary, &c., and enclosing my poor contribution," 1871, 17. 2s. 6d. ; and one of Scott's to William Hawes inviting him to Abbotsford, 1824, 37. 108. Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications must be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Catalogue 219 is devoted to Modern Theology. Mr. W. M. Murphy's Liverpool Catalogue 157 opens with a beautiful set of Burton's Arabian Nights,' Benares, 1885, 157. There is a nice example of painted fore-edges, Melampus,' a poem, 1781, 4l. 48. A copy of The Century Dictionary is priced 61. 108. 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