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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. OCT. 12, 1907,

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

PHOTOGRAVURE FACSIMILES OF RARE BOOKS printed in

England in the Fifteenth Century.

This series of twelve facsimiles of rare fifteenth-century books is now complete, the con- New eluding volumes just issued being The Book of Curtesye, printed by Caxton in 1477 (10*. net), volumes an d Fitz-James' Sermo die lune in ebdomada Pasche printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1495 (15#. net).

Earlier volumes of the series, already published, are : 1, Chaucer's Story of Queen Anelida

and the false Arcite (Caxton, 1477) ; 2, August ini dacti Libellus (The Schoolmaster Printer at St.

Albans, 1479) 15s. net ; 3, Lydgate's Temple of glas (Caxton, 1477) 12*. 6d. net ; 4, Betson's Ryght

Earlier profitable treatyse (Wynkyn de Worde, 1500) 15*. net ; 5, Lydgate's Assemble of goddes (Wynkyn

volumes de Worde, 1500) 17s. 6d. net ; 6, Benet Burgh's Parvus Cato, Magnus Ca<o(Caxton, 1477) 15s. net ;

7, Lydgate's Lytell Treatise of the Horse, the Sheep, and the Ghoos (Wynkyn de Worde, 1499) 10*.

net ; 8, Lydgate's Churl and the Bird (Caxton, 1478) 10s. net ; 9, The Abbaye of the Holy Ghost

(Wynkyn de Worde, 1496) 12s. 6d. net ; and 10, The Mery Geste of the Frere and the Boye

(Wynkyn de Worde, 1512) 7s. 6d. net.

Set Purchasers of complete sets are entitled to a reduction of one-fifth of the published price,

price The special set price thus being 61. net. The few copies that remain of No. 1 are now

reserved for purchasers of sets.

THE CRUSADERS IN THE EAST. A brief History of the

Wars of Islam with the Latins in Syria during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. By W. B. Stevenson, M.A.

This book is a history of the political relations between the states which the Crusaders

founded and those Moslem states with which they waged war, in other words a history of the

Demy Svo struggle between the Latins and the Moslems in Syria during the twelfth and thirteenth

2 maps centuries. In the treatment of the subject the Eastern- point of view has been emphasized and

7s 6d net the main thread of the narrative is drawn, as far as possible, from the history of the Moslem

states. The stress thus laid on the Eastern point of view and the special attention paid to the

chronology of the period are, it is thought, sufficient to justify a new work on the subject.

GEORGE GASCOIGNE: THE POSIES. Edited by John W.

Cunliffe, M.A., D.Litt., Professor of English in the University of Wisconsin, U.S.A.

This, the first of two volumes in which the complete works of George Gascoigne will be

issued, contains, besides The Posies, the addresses " To the Beverende Divines unto whom these

Crown Svo Posies shall happen to be presented," "To al yong Gentlemen," and "To the Readers-

4s Cd net Generally"; and, in addition, the essay entitled " Certayne notes of instruction concerning

the making of verse." The text of the present issue has been set up from a copy of the edition

of 1575 in the University Library at Cambridge.

JOHN BUNYAN : GRACE ABOUNDING and THE PILGRIM'S

PROGRESS. Edited by John Brown, D.D.

" Dr. Brown is the first living authority on Bunyan, and, needless to say, he has produced an edition of the works mentioned for which all careful readers of Bunyan will be grateful." Crown Svo Westminster Gazette.

"A well-printed, well-edited volume it is well that it should appear so handsomely and so cheaply." Daily Telegraph.

"The text has been carefully edited by Dr. John Brown, and presents the wonderful dreams in as perfect a state as is possible." Pall Mall Gazette.

CLUB LAW : A Comedy acted in Clare Hall, Cambridge, about

1599-1600. Now printed for the first time from a MS. in the Library of St. John's College, Cambridge. With an introduction and notes by G. C. Moore Smith, Litt.D.

Club Lain owed its origin to a long-standing feud between the University and the town

Fcap 4to f Cambridge. According to Fuller (History of the University of Cambridge, 1655), the play,

which he describes as " merry (but abusive)," was intended by the young scholars as a piece of revenge on the townsmen, individual members of the corporation of the day being personated to the life, with their characteristic gestures and expressions.

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