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REVIEWS. 225 Conspectus Incuna bulorum : an Index Catalogue of fifteenth century books, with references to Hams Repertorium, Copingers Supplement, Protfors Index, P e Heche fs Catalogue, Campbell's Annales and other bibliographies. By R. A. Peddie. Part ii (C-G). London: Graf ton & Co., pp. vii-x, 145-310. It is pleasant to welcome a new instalment of Mr. Peddie's Conspedtus, which we had given up as dead, so long is the interval which separates it from its predecessor. The new part gives refer- ences to eighty-four different sources of informa- tion, and is free from some slight blemishes we noticed in the first instalment. Save for thus being a little better, it invites no new criticism. The longest heading in it is that of Cicero, which extends to fifteen columns. Taking twenty-four as an average number of entries to a column this would give some 360 fifteenth century editions, a very respedlable total. Of course, most of these were printed in Italy, in the case of the Epistolae Familiares something like fifty editions out of fifty- three, though it is interesting to note that in the case of the De Seneflute and De Amicitia almost all the localized editions come from Germany or the Low Countries. The most singular heading in the book is that of the Conjuratio malignorum spirituum. Of this, twenty-eight editions are regis- tered, all without place or date, five of these by Hain, two by Copinger, six by Pellechet, eight by Reichling, six by the German Commission for a General Catalogue of Incunabula. In not a single