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'The Old Cloak,' by Maxime du Camp, is very touching. Mr. H. H. Statham, editor of the Builder, answers, with some asperity, Mr. Shaw Lefevre's recent paper in the Nineteenth Century on 'Public Buildings of London.' The Earl of Clarendon will, of course, be heard on Party Government.' We fancy Our Library List' will before long disappear.-In Temple Bar, What Men live by,' from the Russian of Count Tolstoï, by Lady Lechmere, is an admirably characteristic specimen of the Russian author's work. Charles Lamb's Letters' should

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rather be called Lamb and Coleridge. Puns' and Thomas Campbell' are the subjects of papers.-Mr. Haweis writes in the Gentleman's on the Late John Ella,' and Mr. W. J. Lawrence gives an account of Pantomime One Hundred and Fifty Years ago. Curious Tenures' is on a subject of constant interest to readers of N. & Q.-Berkeley Castle is treated of in the English Illustrated under Glimpses of Old English Homes." In addition to good views of the place some of the fine pictures in the collection are reproduced. 'Gwalior' is the subject of an excellent paper, with illustrations, by the Hon. Lewis Wingfield. Mr. Oscar Wilde has a paper on London Models. An engraving of 'The Virgin and Child,' from the painting by Lorenzo di Credi in the National Gallery, is the frontispiece. Studies of Elementary School Life,' in Longman's, gives some essays by boys which are sufficiently comic. A Queen Anne Pocket Book' has a mildly antiquarian interest. In 'At the Sign of the Ship' Mr. Lang furnishes some variants of rhymes concerning which he might with advantage have consulted N. & Q.'-'In a Burmese Prison,' in the Cornhill, gives a grim account of life under unfavourable conditions. 'Pickwick' introduces much matter recently discussed in 'N. & Q.' The Grocer's War' tells again a very strange story.- Mistletoe and Holly' is treated of, with other subjects, in All the Year Round.

SOMEWHAT behind time appears the concluding number for 1888 of Le Livre. The most remarkable paper it contains is La Destruction Volontaire des Livres ou la Bibliolytie,' and is by M. F. Drujon. It gives an account of the books destroyed by their authors and by other individuals. The list is long, no fewer than 268 works being included in the list given, of which the first half only appears. The whole is very curious. An illustration representing a lovely binding of 'La Française du Siècle,' in the possession of the author, M. Octave Uzanne, accompanies the number.

MESSRS. CASSELL & Co.'s publications lead off with Old and New London, Part XVI. This begins about Cornhill and the neighbourhood adjacent, and gives representations of Crosby Hall in 1790, Gresham House in Bishopsgate Street, Cornhill in 1630, an excellent representation of the old India Office in 1803, Stow's monument in St. Andrew Undershaft, old Bethlehem Hospital, and other spots of interest.-Our Own Country, now at the forty-eighth part, with no sign of stoppage, deals with Flintshire and Winchester. A capital view of Winchester serves as frontispiece, and is followed by one of Rhuddlan Castle. Many striking views in Winchester are supplied. -The Illustrated Shakespeare, Part XXXVI., is occupied with 'King Richard the Third.' Full-page illustrations include the mourning of Queen Margaret, Clarence and Brakenbury, Queen Elizabeth lamenting, the Prince of Wales and Buckingham proceeding to the Tower, and the progress of Hastings to his death.-Part X. of the translation of Naumann's History of Music is occupied with the Old French school and the Netherlands to the beginning of the Renaissance. It reproduces two designs of Van Eyck from Ghent, and has a portrait of Meyerbeer.-Still in Melbourne, Picturesque Australasia, Part III., gives an animated scene on Brighton beach, not to be confounded with Brighton in

the mother country. Melbourne has also a suburb named Kew. "A vanished wonderland" is the title given to the lake district of New Zealand, to which the work then proceeds. - Part XIII. of the Dictionary of Cookery finishes the work, to which it gives title-page and index, with a useful appendix.

PART LXII. of Mr. Hamilton's Parodies gives travesties of Mr. Swinburne and Mr. G. R. Sims.

No. XVIII. of the Bookbinder (Clowes & Sons) is freely and handsomely illustrated. Some of the colour-printed book-covers are very remarkable.

Woman's World has a well-illustrated paper on' Fans,' and a second on The Princesse de Talleyrand.' There are some good views of Fontarabia, one of the most picturesque portions of northern Spain.

THE REV. W. S. Lach-Szyrma has reprinted his sermon on The Lesson of the Armada.

MR. G. BIRKBECK HILL writes from 3, The Crescent, Oxford: "I have entered into an engagement with the Delegates of the Clarendon Press to collect and edit Dr. Johnson's letters. A very large number of them are in print, but scattered through many volumes; many others still remain in manuscript. Since I published my edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson' I have, through the kindness of correspondents, received copies of not a few which I had never before seen. Many, I have reason to know, still remain hidden away in the desks of collectors of autographs. May I through your columns appeal to the owners of such letters to furnish me with copies? If they would trust me with the originals they would greatly add to the favour. The registered letter-post is a very secure mode of transmission. Whatever I receive shall be returned without delay. If only a copy is sent I venture to ask that the spelling and punctuation of the original be exactly followed. In the case of those letters which have been published, I would suggest that they should be collated by their owners, and that I should be informed of any inaccuracy. Johnson's handwriting is not always clear, and not a few errors have been committed by the copyists. As I hope to supplement this work by a similar edition of the letters of Boswell, I venture to make the same requests in his case also."

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