The lectures were not intended for publication, and were never put in print until last year, when a few were published in Modern Culture and Lippincott's Magazine. They are therefore in their original form, that of informal, face-to-face talks that bring back the lecturer's personality most vividly. They gather the sources of English poetry and show the tendencies of literary thought and expression from the days of Caedmon and Beowulf to Shakespeare's time. They connect the phases of Shakespeare's genius with the fountains of English thought, and bring the whole mass of English literature into one living organism, flowering at last in the incomparable dramatist. When they come down to Shakespeare's own day, they give a detailed picture of the social life, the manners, occupations, recreations and culture of his countrymen and associates, sketching picture after picture with spontaneity of expression and clearness of insight.

The editor, Henry Wysham Lanier, has pruned from the lectures such matter as was included in the author's Science of English Verse, and repetitions made before his two audiences. But he has added nothing, changed nothing. To the word pictures, however, the publishers have added a wealth of illustrations. Facsimiles of early manuscripts and books, portraits, views, every contemporary pictorial representation that could add to the value of the text, have been reproduced. The typography of the work is most satisfactory, and nothing has been omitted that would

make the work a delight to the eye and mind, save only an index. The table of contents is analytical and very full, and perhaps one should be content with that. But there is such a wide range of topics that one would like to see the work made as useful for reference as it is delightful for connected perusal.

THE BINDINGS OF TO-MORROW. A Record of the Work of the Guild of Women-Binders and of the Hampstead Bindery. With a Critical Introduction by G. Elliot Anstruther. London. Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders. 1902.

This volume contains fifty of the best color plates we have seen, of leather bindings, gold-tooled and inlaid. The coloring is remarkably satisfactory, as is also the gold. Forty of these plates represent the bindings of the women of the Guild of WomenBinders, in Charing Cross Road, London. The other ten are bindings done by the men at Hampstead bindery. Hampstead is not a separate bindery, but is the men's side of the Guild. The two work in coöperation, but each binding is the work of one man or woman, individuality being the key-note of the whole institution.

In a well-written introduction to this collection of bindings, Mr. G. E. Anstruther sketches the history and aims of the Guild, which has been an important factor in raising bookbinding to its present status in England as an art-craft, and has pointed out another highly suitable occupation for "the deftness of woman's hand, and the persevering industry of woman's temperament."

The work of the Guild is based on the "labor-loving" instead of the "labor-saving" principle, and time spent in doing each thing the best way is considered better than the "time-saving" accomplished by wholesale processes of duplication. Each binder is expected to do mechanically accurate work, to put her own individuality into the design, and at the same time to make the binding an expression of the contents of the book. How successfully this has been accomplished is shown by these fifty reproductions. The designs shown are of course of varying excellence, but the standard of taste is high, originality there is in plenty, and the book and its binding are often in a harmony that is apparent at once.

Each plate is faced by a description of the binding, the imprint of the book, the binder's name, and in several cases with bits of information, while in the introduction, Mr. Anstruther devotes several pages to descriptions of some of them. Altogether, it is a creditable and interesting volume, for which we have nothing but commendation.

and its typography and illustrations are excellent. Every house which has contributed toward the building of the book is given credit for its part, and in the advertising pages that take up half the volume one finds examples of the work of engravers, printers, paper-makers, ink-manufacturers, designers, binders, and everyone else that has anything to do with books or magazines at their best.

According to a Century definition of advertisement, "specific intelligence about anything," the word applies to the whole compilation. It is the first book published on the subject, and the amount of "specific intelligence" it contains is large. The information is from the best authorities. The reading matter consists of a series of practical essays, written by some of the best binders and designers in this country. The subjects range from the designing and printing of cloth cases and paper wrappers to the technicali ties of the leather cover which alone is recognized by bookmen as a “binding." "Book-lovers' Bindings" are defined and their requisites specified at some length, by J. Samuel Hodge, the Boston binder. "Pyrography as a Fine Art" has a practical paper by F. J. Pfister, who has used it very successfully on leather bindings. Ralph Randolph Adams has an authoritative paper on "Viennese Inlaying,' the renaissance of which is due to his discovery of a method by which the leather mosaic is preserved as never before. W. G. Bowdoin's essay on "Book Covers and Cover Designing"

is general in character. The other papers, including one on Cover Designing by George French, and one on Cover Papers by Harold Helmer, deal with the possibilities of the commercial cover. It is this branch of the art that belongs most to the late nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.

GOOD ORDER ESTABLISHED in Pennsylvania

and New Jersey. By Thomas Budd. With Introduction and Notes by Frederick J. Shepard, of the Buffalo Public Library. Cleveland. The Burrows Brothers Company. 1902.

The third of the "B. B." reprints is of the second issue of William Bradford's press at Philadelphia. Only recently has this old book been credited to Bradford, it having been thought an English publication. The only imprint it bore was the phrase "Printed in the year 1685." Bradford's Almanac had just appeared, and had called forth an order "not to print anything but what shall have lycence from ye Council." Thomas Budd, strenuous old Quaker, had recently published in London some criticisms of American Friends, which would have caused ye Council to think twice before granting another work of his a lycence. The book was already on the press, and by sending it out without his name, Bradford washed his hands of the responsibility. As “ of the rarest of books relating to Pennsylvania," the price of the finest of less than a dozen known copies had advanced two years ago to seven hundred dollars. Since the discovery that

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the book was Bradford's second issue, one hundred twenty-five pounds were paid by Quaritch for an uncut copy, containing two doubtful leaves.

The small Gowans reprint has not brought the book within the reach of many, and the present issue of two hundred twenty-five copies seems all too few, for Thomas Budd's treatise is to be desired by many men. It comes under the head of Americana in general, Pennsylvaniana in particular; the collector of Bradford's books must be content with it instead of the original; the collection of Quaker books must include it; it contains a speech by an Indian chief on the selling of strong liquors to Indians, that belongs in the temperance advocate's library; the Indian student will find in it The Dying-Words of Ockanichon, "whose dying Words I writ from his Mouth"; and Budd's suggestions for a law for compulsory education of the children of the provinces show him to have been a believer in manual and technical education, whose advanced theories deserve a place in any library of education.

All this variety of interests centers in a little eighty page volume, in which Thomas Budd's treatise has been reprinted with the original spelling and capitalization, and with an introduction and notes by Frederick J. Shepard, giving the bibliographical history of the treatise, helpful explanations of its language and its allusions, and biographical notes concerning its author.

AMERICAN AUTHOR.

In the October number are some personal reminiscences of Henry W. Longfellow, by Charles Lanman, including a letter from the poet telling the origin of his Wreck of the Hesperus. Mr. Lanman tells also the way that Evangeline came to be written, and several of the shorter poems, and describes a memorable visit to the home of Whittier, in company with Longfellow, Charles Sumner, and B. Perley Poore. There is an unusual portrait of Longfellow, taken in 1858.

An interesting copyright case and decision are extracted from the New York Law Journal, concerning the acquisition by J. W. Lovell of the American rights to J. M. Barrie's Little Minister.

LE BIBLIOGRAPHE MODERNE.

In the July-August issue E. Bourlier relates the history of the Walloon Library at Leyden. This collection had its origin in the archives of the Walloon synod. In the sixteenth century the records of the synod were preserved in a coffer, which in time proved too small for all the documents. When three, and later four, coffers were needed to contain the papers, these chests became bothersome and it was decreed to place them in some church in the centre of Holland. Thus the Walloon Depot was established at Leyden. In 1807 a book of sermons was added to the collection; this gradually led to the founding of the Library in 1852.

L. Auvray describes some of the treasures of Mgr. Desnoyers's collection of ancient documents at Orleans. The text is given of eight of the documents, including bulls, dowery records, grants of exchange and special privileges.

BIBLIOGRAPHER.

Sir Thomas Bodley and the Bodleian Tercentenary are the subjects of a sketch with a portrait and two old prints.

Worthington C. Ford contributes a Bibliography of the Journals of the House of Representatives of His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay, 1715 to 1726-27. Several facsimiles are given. A check-list of Dryden's Plays notes twenty-seven titles with their various editions to 1736. The title pages are reproduced of the genuine and pirated first editions of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

Some Gossip about Old Prints is contributed by Lieut.-Col. C A'Court, apropos the projected Loan Exhibition of Engraving and Etching planned for next year by the South Kensington Board of Education. It is hoped that the article will encourage private collectors to come forward and offer the loan of their treasures to the Secretary of the Exhibition. The paper is quite long and interesting.

BULLETIN DU BIBLIOPHILE ET DU

BIBLIOTHECAIRE.

Henry Harisse, in a continued article entitled "Bolognese Forgeries," relates the methods and tricks of a band of Italian scamps, who, with headquarters at Bologne and branches in various Italian towns, have been preying upon the bibliophilial world for the last twenty years. A favorite method of catching the victim was for the bookseller to frequent the railroad station, offer himself as guide to strangers, show them the sights of the town, especially the library; then, speaking of rare books, "By the way, there's a bookshop around the corner," etc., lead the victim to his shop. The various old books were shown, some authentic, some especially "prepared" for the amateur. For these rogues did not hesitate at the most daring forgeries, in the way of initials or monograms of kings, princes, or any distinguished personage whose name would add value to some old volume. Three false sixteenth century bindings fabricated at Bologne and sold as authentic, are phototyped in the August-September number. The October installment gives the origin and various wanderings of the famous forged Columbus letter.

An article on the Mercure de France, begun in the July number, seeks to gather together various scattered information on the history of this paper and its eminent contributors. The October number contains a catalogue of volumes running from 1685 to 1711.

CENTURY.

and folk-lore of divers countries. Only the one collection described, whose owner and collector is not named, is known to the writer. The owner has sought his examples all the way from Holland to the Philippines, and the most remarkable variety of materials and designs is the result.

CENTRALBLATT FUR BIBLIOTHEKS

WESEN.

Arthur Kopp contributes the leading article to the November number, on "Low German Song Prints of the 16th Century." The purpose of the article is "to enumerate and classify the sheets not as yet described and bring them into relation with the collections of known songs.' The Royal Library at Berlin has the largest collection of these old prints, possessing at least a dozen.

A scheme for a general catalogue of all nineteenth century magazine literature on art topics is suggested by E. W. Bredt. The material is to be gathered not only from German but also from foreign periodicals and is to be arranged on the plan of a card catalogue.

CHAUTAUQUAN.

A Survey of the Arts and Crafts in England, by Rho Fisk Zueblin, speaks of the work of William Morris, C. R. Ashbee, Walter Crane, Gleeson White, and the various Associations that have been formed to help the renaissance of the art-crafts.

CONNOISSEUR.

H. T. Sheringham continues his description of A Library in Miniature, devoting the second paper to books of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the eighteenth, the Royal Press at Paris and the Foulis Press at Glasgow produced a number of fine little editions in sizes under four inches. Barbou and some other printers issued a few, and the Thumb Bible was a very popular subject for miniature editions, several averaging one and five-eighths inches in height. In the nineteenth century Pickering's miniature classics were the most important. The rarest of these is the Virgil, the finest Walton's Complete Angler. Bliss, Lefevre, Jones, Richardson, and many other early nineteenth century publishers brought out diminutive volumes, while toward the end of the century "thumb" prayer-books and dictionaries became popular, and several publishers revived the miniature edition of literary masterpieces. Miniature almanacs have been known since 1508. There are toy-books, also, and children's books. The smallest book ever set from type is a letter of Galileo, published by Salmin at Padua in 1896. It is ten-sixteenths by sevensixteenths of an inch in size.

The collection of stone vases of prehistoric Egypt, loaned by Mr. Randolph Berens to South Kensington Museum, is made the foundation for a paper by Professor Sayce on the prehistoric remains of early Egypt. The men of the neolithic age were skilled in carving, and under their conquerors, the historic Egyptians, they built the pyramids and carved stone vases and implements, which are remarkable for their beauty of material and perfection of form, and for the fact that they were cut and polished entirely by hand.

A colored print by Thomas Rowlandson, which is reproduced, represents the sale of a library in the eighteenth century, probably at Baker's old auction rooms, afterward Leigh's, and now Sotheby's.

Wilfred Hargrave has discovered an error in the text of Great Expectations, and has found the original manuscript of the misprinted passage in the Wisbech Museum, proving that an omitted h has caused the muddling of a descriptive passage in chapter xxvi, where "flowing air" should read "flowing hair." The original manuscript is given in facsimile, and it is hoped the error will be corrected in future editions.

Other articles of interest to collectors are on English Lustre Ware, Craft Masonic Jewels, and the Morelli collection of paintings.

CRITIC.

The fifth paper of Charles Hemstreet's Literary Landmarks of New York concerns itself with the New York of Washington Irving, and is illustrated with two portraits and several old prints.

G. S. Goodwin concludes his study of bookreviewing by a gathering-in of the views of the reviewers themselves. Answers to a list of questions are given by Harry Thurston Peck, Richard LeGallienne, Francis W. Halsey and several other prominent reviewers. The answers contain both variety and spice.

DEUTSCHE LITTERATURZEITUNG.

Arnim Graesel's Handbook of Library Science is discussed in the issue of November 15th. The author has taken Petzholdt's Catechism and remodelled and enlarged it for modern use, producing a useful and painstaking piece of work. It contains 125 cuts and 22 facsimile prints.

EDINBURGH REVIEW.

The October issue, No. CCCII., is the centenary issue, the Review having been founded in 1802. A historical sketch of the hundred years is illustrated with fine portraits of Jeffrey, Longman, Sydney Smith, Brougham, Macauley, Napier, Cornewall Lewis, and Henry Reeve. The editorial career of Jeffrey, who, after the