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efforts to govern, but rather of organized govern-
ment which broke down for short periods in par-
ticular localities." So Freeman has come by his
own again a gratifying fact in view of the acri-
monious attack on him published just after his
decease. Mr. R. G. Usher subjects Coke's report
of the famous interview between the great lawyer
and the king to a careful analysis, with the net
result that the "finely turned English phrases are
not Coke's, but the work of some one else." As a
piece 'of "higher criticism" the article is most
valuable, and its reasoning appears to us convincing.
In the ' Notes and Documents ' there are a few
unpublished letters of Napoleon, of no particular
interest, contributed by Mr. Fisher ; a valuable
note by Mr. Philip Sidney on the Neapolitan
Stuarts ; and a collection of most interesting letters
of Col. William Napier, by Prof. Moore Smith. Of
the reviews the most interesting is that by the
Master of Peterhouse on Mr. Fisher's 'Studies in
Napoleonic Statesmanship.'
WE learn .with much regret of the demise of
Mr. Julian Marshall, a personal friend and a toler-
ably frequent contributor to ' N. & Q.' His death
followed several operations for internal disease.
Mr. Marshall, who was in his sixty-eighth year,
was an authority on tennis and on games generally.
He had considerable knowledge of music (being a
contributor to Grove's ' Dictionary of Music ') and
of art generally, and was an assiduous collector of
books, engravings, and book-plates. The arrange-
ment of his fine collection of book-plates was a
chief solace of his later days. His special know-
ledge was employed by Dr. Murray in the * N.E.D.'
He was indeed a man of remarkable and very
varied attainments and of fine taste and judgment-
The youngest son of John Marshall, jun., of
Headingley (Leeds) and Keswick, he was one of
that family of Marshalls who owned the principal
lakes in Cumberland and Westmoreland, and was
allied to the famous Prof. Whewell, of Trinity
College, Cambridge, and Spring Rice, afterwards
Lord Monteagle.
MESSRS. E. E. SPEIGHT & R. H. WALPOLE, of Teignmouth, promise yet another series of books intended for connoisseurs and bibliophiles, to be issued in limited editions and in sumptuous form. Among works which they announce for immediate publication are Richard Jobson's ' The Golden Trade,' 1623, and Coryat's ' Crudities,' 1612, works of extreme rarity and abundant interest, which fetch long prices in the sale-room. It is as yet too early to speak of the execution, but the scheme is full of promise and is likely to find support in America as well as here.
BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES.
IN the latest catalogue of Messrs. Henry Sotheran
& Co. the first book to arrest the collector's atten-
tion is ' The Young Sportsman's Delight and
Instructor in Angling, Fowling,' c., of G[ervase]
Mlarkham], a book so rare that only one perfect
copy, according to the ' Bibliotheca Piscatoria, is
known. ' The True Art of Angling/ by J. S., Gent.,
a Brother of the Angle, 1696, is of near the same
date, and almost equally precious. Of Walton and
Cotton's 'Complete Angler' the scarcest edition
catalogued is that of 1760. A large-paper copy of
Arber's ' English Reprints ' follows, and is succeeded
by a very cheap copy of Bailey's ' Festus,' first
edition. A ' Collection of Printed Title - Pages,'
2 vols., 251. , carries us back to a period of horrible
ravage in books. A collection of Burton's ' Travels,'
46 vols., chiefly first editions, is priced 37?. 10*.
Chappell's ' Ballad Literature ' follows. An ' Ori-
ginal Deed of Trust ' of Sheridan, assigning to
William Adam certain property in Drury Lane
Theatre, is priced 52?. 10s. It should be in public
hands. Under Drama are two striking moralities.
It is curious to find under Alexandre Dumas fils,
not pere, a registry of the Compagnie des Mousque-
taires. A ' Graduate Romanum,' on vellum, from
the Plantin press, is priced 551. A collection of the
Folk-lore Society's Publications and one of Froude's-
wprks arrest attention. The " Fuller Worthies
Library," large paper, 39 vols., and Grosart's " Occa-
sional Issues" are now rarely encountered. The
Harleian Society's Publications, 52 vols., are 35?.
Papworth's ' Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of
Arms' is scarce and precious. Morris's Herrick
selection, printed with " Golden " type, leads off a-
list of Kelmscott Press productions, in which we
note Mr. Mackail's ' Biblia Innocentium.' Clutter-
buck's 'Hertfordshire' is 27?. 10-5. Mommsen is
classified as Anglophobe, which before death he
had ceased to be. An extra-illustrated Pepys is
the 1875-9 edition. A collection of Parliamentary
speeches is priced 95?. First editions of Spenser's
' Teares of the Muses ' and ' Mother Hubberd's
Tale' seem cheap at 15?. A series of Scottish
family books supply an opportunity to collectors
of such not often afforded. A Third Folio Shake-
speare, title inlaid, is 175?. Halliwell-Phillipps's
great edition is 94?. 10s., and a Collier's edition,,
with an autograph dedication to his adopted-
daughter, is 521. 10-9. A ' Mirour for Magistrates '
is the last edition, 1619 (that of 1610 with a new
title-page). Alken's sporting books are very high
priced. A collection of Sterne's works, 1760-75, is
in 22 vols. A Swinburne collection, in 31 vols., is
181. IBs. Hoare's ' Wiltshire,' presentation copy, is
100?. At the close are some valuable art works.
Messrs. Maggs issue a collection of choice en- gravings, including theatrical portraits : Bannister and Parsons, after De Wilde; Burke, by Jones after Romney, 251. ; Viscountess Bulkeley, by Bar- tolozzi after Cos way, 11?. Us. ; Clive, by Bartolozzi after Dance, 15?. 15s. ; Cruikshank, by himself ;. Charlotte Fish, by Watson after Sir Joshua; Nell Gwynne, by Val. Green after Lely ; Lady Hamilton, after Romney, 23?. 10*. ; Mrs. Hoppner by C. Knight after Hoppner, 12?. 12s. ; Miss Ingram as Ariadne, after Sir Joshua, 25?. ; Kean as Richard III., 7?. 7s. : George Morland, by Ward after Muller, 12?. 12s. ; Napoleon I., after Gerard, 67. 6s. ; Sir Hyde Parker, after Romney, 10?. 10s. ; Mrs. Sheri- dan as St. Cecilia, after Sir Joshua, 15?. 15s. ; Prince James Stuart, the first Pretender ; a series of Barto- lozzis ; Robin Hood and Clorinda, by Blake ; Elvira,, after A. Buck ; and Lesbia and her Bird, by Sir J. Reynolds. There are also a few old masters, some modern etchings, and original drawings by Burne- Jones, Blake, Thackeray, and others.
Mr. Charles Higham's list gives books from the library of the late Dean Milman, and includes a selection of Catholic and Patristic literature. Among the items are a complete set of the Ecclesiologitt ; Dean Hook's ' Lives of the Archbishops of Canter- bury ' ; the ' Roman Breviary,' translated into English by the Marquis of Bute (this is scarce
