n s. vii. JAX. 11, MS.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
The Burlington Magazine begins 1913 with
articles of more than visual interest. Mr. Whitley
after long and laborious search has discovered,
principally in the journals of the time, but also
in some MS. notes, references to the lectures on
Perspective given by Turner as professor, and
here for the first time all the information available
is set out. Yet another discovery of high interest
is communicated by Mr. W. Grant Keith in
' Some Hitherto Unknown Drawings by Inigo
Jones.' These had lain perdu s among the
architectural drawings which James Gibbs,
upon his death in 1754, bequeathed to the Bad-
cliffe at Oxford, and which had not hitherto
been closely examined, being supposed to be all
his own work. Mr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy,
in dealing with ' Indian Images with Many Arms,'
has a subject full of curious and prof ound interest,
upon which every lover of art must desire better
instruction. While grateful to him for what he
here furnishes, we wish he had taken up more
space in imparting knowledge, and less in some-
what peevish castigations and assertions which,
however true, he leaves unsupported. Mr.
Clive Bell's paper on ' Post-Impressionism and
Esthetics ' is a delightful piece of writing,
chiefly valuable for the end paragraphs, without
which one term of his explanation of the essential
in art, " significant form," would carry no sense.
The mystical relation between the real and the
visible which it is the raison d'etre of art to illus-
trate needs teaching, and is, perhaps, most
effectively taught in this fugitive way, as if a
mere addendum to a main theme. Three good
series of papers are carried on to their second
number : Dr. Schubring's study of cassoni panels
in English private collections ; M. A. J. Wauters's
' Boger van der Weyden ' ; and the very interest-
ing and well-illustrated discussion of the 'Psy-
chostasis in Christian Art,' by Mary Phillips Perry.
WE have received with pleasure from Mr. Hilary Jenkinson of the Public Becord Office, Hon. Secretary of the Surrey Archaeological Society, the announcement that it is proposed to found a Surrey Becord Society. The promoters of the scheme urge with justice that, from the point of view both of security and utility, the printing and indexing of the wealth of docu- mentary evidence amassed alike in the Public Becord Office and in private hands is an imme- diate and important need. Experience has already proved how much excellent service, supplementary to the Government work of the publication of records, may be privately rendered by the common local interest of the several counties ; and the fine list of documents proposed for publication if the Society should be formed justifies our expecting great things from Surrey in this matter.
The Society will be based upon a 10s. yearly subscription (with an entrance fee of 10.s.), with, in return, at least one volume annually. If a sufficient number of names are sent in as willing to subscribe, a public meeting will be held in London to organize the Society. We are glad to note that a good preliminary list has already been obtained.
WE learn with pleasure that our correspondent Dr. J. WMllcock is about to publish a ' Life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger ' in this, the ter- centenary year of his hero's birth. The younger
Vane, though perhaps a shadowy figure to the
general reader, is one well worth close study r
whether the point of view be that of an interest
in the circumstances of his life or of an interest
in the curiosities of human nature. We under-
stand that the volume which runs to some
400 pp. includes as an appendix documents, now
printed for the first time, relating to an obscure
plot in 1659 to entrap Charles II.
REFERRING to the review of PROF. SKEAT'S ' Science of Etymology,' which appeared at p. 498- of our last volume, our correspondent Mr. ALFREI> ANSCOMBE kindly writes to inform us that PROF. SKEAT was engaged in the preparation of a volume on ' The Place-Names of Suffolk ' also. On May 18, inviting from MR. ANSCOMBE an expression of opinion on " Hoxne," he wrote : " I am doing all the Suffolk place-names, 469 in number. I have got oiit at least 450 with almost complete safety, or with very high probability. Only a few are in doubt." On May 22 he wrote that he was finishing his * Science of Etymology,' and with characteristic humour he said he hoped there was not a single new statement in the book !
BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. JANUARY.
CATALOGUE No. 202, sent us by Mr. William
Brown of Edinburgh, contains "a number of
interesting first editions, among them Butler'*
' Hudibras,' all the three parts as they succer-
sively appeared in 1663, 1664, 1678, 25Z. ; Car-
lyle's ' Sartor Besartus,' as it was first privately-
reprinted for his friends from Fraser's Magazine,,
1834, 161. 16s. ; Cowper's two volumes of ' Poems,'
the first published in 1782, the second, containing.
' The Task,' ' John Gilpin,' and other works, in.
1785, III. 15s. ; Keats's 'Lamia,' ' Isabella,' &c. r
1820, in the original boards and uncut, having its
paper label on the back and the eight pages of
advertisements, 58Z. 10s. ; and the first edition of
Florio's ' Montaigne,' 1603, 681. Blair's ' Grave,'
with the twelve etchings from Blake's designs
(1808), and Blake's illustrations of the Book of
Job (1825), from Sir Theodore Martin's library,,
are to be sold together for 30Z. There are eight
books with Cruikshank illustrations : the most
costly, if not in itself the most interesting, is the
Egan's ' Life in London,' for which 651. is asked.
Nisbet's ' System of Heraldry ' in the 1816 edition-
costs 61. 158. ; and the ' Annals of the Kingdom
of Ireland, by the Four Masters, from the Earliest
Period to 1616,' edited, with translation and
notes, by J. O'Donovan, 1856, 121. 12s. We
noticed two attractive sets of Japanese drawings,
collections and designs for tailoring or dress-
making on twenty-three double leaves of thin
paper, intended evidently for embroidery, and
with the arfcst's name on every page. They
belong apparently to the eighteenth century, and
for the better the price is 42s., for the other 30s.
We may mention also a copy of Mr. Forbes's
edition of the ancient Irish ' Missale Drum-
mondiense,' 11. 5s. ; a copy of Dresser and Sharpe's
' History of the Birds of Europe,' including all
the species inhabiting the Western Palaearctic
Begion, 1871-96, 57Z. 10s. ; Pergolesi's ' Original
Designs of Vases, Figures, <fcc.,' 1777-92, 21Z. ;
and a copy of Coryat's ' Crudities,' 1776, 31. 15s.
At the end of the Catalogue is a list of engraved
portraits which contains several very interesting-,
items.