to the other side; and, on the strength of the contemporary testimony of Adam Murimuth, Canon of St. Paul's (MS. Harl. 3836, f. 49, unearthed by Mr. E. Maunde Thompson), ends by declaring sub judice lis est. None the less the authorship belongs to an Englishman, and the book is, as Lowndes calls it, "the first treatise on bibliography by an English writer." Under these conditions the neglect with which it has been treated is inexplicable. It was thrice printed abroad : at Cologne in 1473, at Spires in 1483, and in Paris in 1500. Not until almost a century later appeared the first English edition, Oxford, 1598-9. Since that time, though translations have appeared and editions have been promised, the original work has not been reprinted in England until to-day. No fewer than thirtyfive MSS. have been traced by Mr. Thomas, and examined for the sake of his edition. Twenty-eight of these, in addition to all the printed texts, have, it is said, been personally examined or collated. We have now. accordingly, for the first time a text of the Philobiblon authoritative, except that the orthography of the MSS. is reduced to a classical standard. The translation is vigorous, and, without being antique or affected, has a certain pleasantly archaic flavour. A book of this class is sure of a welcome. Without joining in the raptures concerning the 'Philobiblon' in which Dibdin indulges, we may say it is a work in which scholars and book-lovers will ever delight. Very pleasant to read are the rhapsodies over books, and some things that are said concerning them have not been surpassed. Who, for instance, has written in praise of books anything better than the following sentences:-"Hi sunt magistri qui nos instruunt sine virgis et ferula, sine verbis et cholera. sine pannis et pecunia. Si accedes non darmiunt; si inquirens interrogas, non abscondunt; remurmurant si oberes; cachinnos nesciunt, si ignores" (pp. 13-14). These words are thus rendered. pp. 163-4, by Mr. Thomas: "They are masters who instruct us without rod or ferule, without angry words, without clothes or money. If you come to them they are not asleep; if you ask and inquire of them they do not withdraw themselves; they do not chide if you make mistakes; they do not laugh at you if you are ignorant." To few readers of 'N. & Q' will the book stand in need of recommendation. To book-lovers in general-and principally to a writer whose pseudonym is pleasantly familiar to every reader of N. & Q.,' to Sam. Timmins, "Ricardi Nostri Amantissimo "-the volume is dedicated. THE Antiquary, Vol. XVIII. (Stock), is above the average. It opens with a thoughtful and scholarly paper of Mr. Peacock's on Taylor the Platonist,' with a catalogue of works. Mr. Carew Hazlitt continues his studies in Early English Typography.' His notes may not be all that can be desired, but they are the best we get. Mr. J. Theodore Bent writes on Master Hallam's Mission.' 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