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IN The Burlington an editorial article o
- Museums' contrasts the demands of small, isolatei
centres of art with the more complex requirement of the great centres of civilization. The ideal firs worked out by a few enthusiastic officials at Boston Massachusetts, is advocated as being on the whol best calculated to meet aesthetic, art-historical, am technical points of view, and as offering a solutior of the way to make museums centres for education in art. 'The pictures illustrating 'The French School in the National Gallery' in which the editor draws attention to the task which lies before Sir Charles Holrqyd in his endeavour to strengthen the Gallery at its weakest point include four Corots ; ' La Main Chaude,' by J. F. de Troy ; an interesting portrait, bearing an unmistakabij Napoleonic stamp, of Elisa Bonaparte, by David and an unautheriticated portrait of Malibran attributed to Ingres. Mr. Claude Phillips writes on ' A Watteau in the Jones Collection,' and Mr W. Rankin on ' Art in America.' Fresh light is thrown by Mr. G. T. Clough on fifteenth-century book-collecting arid the high literary purpose thai informed it ; Dr. A. Koester in a fullyi llustratec article traces the development of ' Hair-dressing among the Ancient Greeks ' from the earliest times through all the different periods of classica" activity. ' The Swing,' by Jean Antoine Watteau makes a charming frontispiece to an interesting number.
AMONG the multitude of questions dealt with in the later numbers of the Intermediate are medicine and zoology in Homer, the legend of the Wandering Jew, and the use of the word mildiou that is, the English "mildew" for a parasitic disease which attacks the vine. " The Spinning Sow " and other quaint tavern signs, such as " The Ass playing the Viol" and "The Smoking Cat," are also noticed. An interesting article in the issue for 20 July is devoted to Marcouls, the " seventh sons " who heal scrofula by touch in the name of St. Marcoul "Moreover," says the writer, " these same seventh sons cure canine madness in the name of St. Quit- terie, and tertian and quartan fevers. Arid I know ten other quite as scientific manners of curing scrofula." It appears that in Spain the seventh sons who deal with king's-evil are named " Salu- dadors," and are said to have on the tongue or the palate a distinctive mark a cross, fleur de lis, or Catharine - wheel. They specially cure hydro- phobia, but also heal scrofula through their touch accompanied by prayers.
BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. SEPTEMBER.
MR. L. C. BRAUN'S Catalogue 56 contains under Binding the Towneley copy of a fine work issued at Treviso in 1741, containing over 400 large plates, giving thousands of illustrations of numismatic and antiquarian objects, the 4 folio vols. bound in one, full morocco, 3/. 3s. The general portion includes Walpole's 'Noble Authors,' 5 vols., morocco, 1806, 3. 10s. ; ' The National Portrait Gallery of Illus- trious Personages,' with memoirs by Codke Taylor, 4 vols., II. 10s.; Knight's 'Gallery of Portraits,' 7 vols., 1833, 21. 58. ; first edition of ' The New- comes,' 16s. ; Boswell's ' Johnson,' 10 vols., Murray, 1839, 3?. 5s. ; Lowell, Riverside Edition, 11 vols., 11. 5s. ; Macaulay, Library Edition, 8 vols., 41. 10s. ; and Whistler's 'Gentle Art of making Enemies,' first edition, Heiriemann, 1890, 11. 10s. Under French
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1787, 21. ; the first edition of 'Contes et Nouvelles,'
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translated by Sainte-Hyacinthe and Van Effen,
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Mr. Frank Murray's premises at Derby are re- quired for municipal improvements, and he devotes Catalogue 229 to items at a shilling each. He in- tends to issue a large Clearance List later.
Messrs. W. N. Pitcher & Co.'s Manchester Cata- logue 161 contains a good general selection, includ- ing two first editions under Ainsworth (' Clitheroe,' 11. 17s. 6d., and 'The Spendthrift, 3 11. 10s.) and early editions of Bewick. Under Costume are 20 vols. of 'The Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion,' 1834-43, 3^. 3s. ; and under Drama Pearson's reprints of "Old British Dramatists," 27 vols., 91. 10s. A magnificent work on Herculaneum and Pompeii, with 700 engravings by H. Roux, 8 vols., imperial 8vo, French boards, Paris, Didot, 1875, is 51. 10s. There is another beautiful French book, ' Chants et Chansons populaires de la France,' 330 steel plates, brilliant impressions, Paris, 1848, 3. 3s. Other items include the Waverley Novels, 48 vols., original red cloth, 1829-33,4?.; Shakespeare, 11 vols., half-calf, Pickering, 1825, 31. 3s. ; Ben Jonson, Col. Cunningham's edition, 9 vols., cloth, uncut, 1875, 41. 10s. ; R. L. Stevenson's Works, 20 vols., new half-calf by Riviere, 17^. ; Thackeray, 26 vols., new half-calf, 1902, 11. 7s. ; Kipling, 21 Vols., half-calf, 9/. 10s. ; and Lytton, 29 vols., half -morocco, 101. 10s.
Mr. D. Webster's Leeds September Catalogue contains ' Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe,' 20 vols., Grolier Society, 61. 6s. ; and first edition of 'Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell,' 1846, 21. 2s. Under Military is ' The Journal of the Household Brigade, 1864 to 1880,' 11. 5s. ; and under Scotland, Sir Herbert Maxwell's ' Story of the Tweed,' 11. 17s. 6d. There is a long list under Australasia, besides two clearance lists.
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T. RATCLIFFE ("Radicals and Huntites "). The atter is an allusion to followers of Henry Hunt, the riend of Cobbett. Hunt presided at the meeting n St. Peter's Fields, Manchester, known as the
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820. See'D.N.B.'
CORRIGENDUM. P. 157, col. 1, 1. 18 from foot, for gobbernowl " read jobbernowl.
