NOTICES OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES.

W. Carew Hazlitt. Second Series of Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature, 1474-1700. London : B. Quaritch, 1882. 8vo, pp. x.-717. Price £1 168.

Supplementary to the same writer's Handbook, 1867, and Collections and Notes, 1876. The three works contain about 21,000 titles of English works of more or less rarity, and are useful as containing materials for bibliography, although something more than the mere accurate copying of title-pages and exact description of collations should be understood by the word bibliography.

Bibliography of Robert Browning, from 1833 to 1881. Compiled by Frederick J. Furnivall. London: Published for the Browning Society by N. Trübner and Co. 1882. 8vo, pp. 117-74.

Price 5s.

This consists of additions to the Bibliography in Part I. of the Browning Society's Papers, 1881, including-1. Browning's Acted Plays; 2. Fresh Entries of Criticisms on Browning's Works; 3. Fresh Personal Notices of Browning; 4. Notes on Browning's Poems and Furnivall's Bibliography; 5. Short Index; and Mr. Nettleship's Classification of Browning's Poems. The pages are chiefly occupied with extracts from various sources relating to Mr. Browning and his writings, and the compilation reflects great credit upon the industry of Mr. Furnivall. But it is a subject of regret that so much bibliographical energy would be wasted in collecting scraps of uninstructive gossip about a man of genius, who, however great may be his literary power, is still a living personage, and whose proper place in the hierarchy of fame has yet to be fixed. Mr. Browning is happily still with us, and as a crowning glory to his career may yet give to the world a series of epics upon the members of the society which bears his name. Manchester Bibliography for 1881. By Charles William Sutton. Manchester, 1882. 8vo, pp. 157-175.

This, the second of Mr. Sutton's annual Manchester Bibliographies, is reprinted from the April number of the Manchester Quarterly, and exhibits the compiler's usual care and accuracy. Of the books recorded the number actually produced in Manchester is 323, and of those written by natives or residents of the city but printed elsewhere the number is 42. Mr. Sutton classifies them, and it appears that the most numerousof the classes is Politics, Commerce, and Social Questions, numbering 56. Omitting periodicals, History, Biography, and Travel come next with 43, and in the third place Music, with 40 publications.

The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and By Mrs. Oliphant. Beginning of the Nineteenth Century.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. 3 vols., 8vo. Price 368.

This finds a place on the lucus a non lucendo principle. Mrs. Oliphant's work may be interesting to persons with a taste for harmless reading, but, as literary history without bibliography is valueless, it cannot prove of much use as a book

of reference.

May's British and Irish Press Guide. 1882. London: F. L. May and Co. 8vo, pp. xvi.-256 and cover.

Price 1s.

This is the ninth year of this very full and useful handbook of our newspaper and periodical literature. It registers no less than 2,137 newspapers published in the United Kingdom, besides 930 periodicals and 384 annuals, &c. There are a dictionary of subjects, &c., with the organs representing them, and a list of societies and their respective publications, besides a number of very interesting maps showing the localization of newspaper literature. Altogether the book contains a really wonderful amount of information. We observe that, although our MONTHLY "Transactions." NOTES is duly registered, no mention is made of our

Library of Harvard University. Bibliographical Contributions. Edited by Justin Winsor, Librarian. No. 15. List of American Authors in Geology and Palæontology. By J. D. Whitney. Cambridge, Mass.: Univ. Press, 1882. La. 8vo, pp. 11.

This list is reprinted from the Bulletin of Harvard University, and includes the names of persons born or of long residence in the United States who have contributed to the progress of geological or paleontological science. The following are announced to appear in the same form:-References in Analytic Geometry, by J. M. Peirce; Calendar of the Arthur Lee MSS. at Harvard; Bibliography of Fossil Insects, by S. H. Scudder; Classified Index to the Maps in Petermann's Geograph. Mittheilungen, 1855-81, by G. R. Bliss, Jun. ; and list of the most useful reference books, by Justin Winsor.

Catalogue of French Books offered for Sale by Dulau and Co., 37, Soho Square, W.C. London: Dulau and Co., 1882. Sm. 8vo, pp. 326.

A useful price-list of modern French literature.

Bibliographie Belge: Journal Général de l'Imprimerie, de la Librairie et des Industries qui s'y rattachent; publié sur les Documents fournis par le Ministre de l'Intérieur. 1re Année. No. 1, 15 Avril, 1882. Bruxelles, 1882. La. 8vo.

This proposes to issue a list of every publication brought out in Belgium. Das Zeitungswesen sonst und jetzt; Von Detler Freiherr von Biedermann. Leipzig: Friedrich, 1882. Sm. 8vo, pp. 109.

Price 2s.

An interesting little work written in a popular manner. The bibliographical part leaves much to be desired, however.

Biografia del Cardinale Angelo Mai; da Benedetto Prina. gamo: Giaffieri e Gatti, 1882. 8vo, pp. 107.

One of the chapters of Professor Prina's interesting volume is devoted to Mai's labours at the Vatican.

Angelo Mai e Giacomo Leopardi ; da Dott. Elia Zerbini, Bergamo: Giaffieri e Gatti, 1882. 8vo.

Both of these works were issued on the occasion of the celebration of the centenary of the great Cardinal-Librarian at Bergamo, in February last. In 1820 Leopardi addressed an eloquent canzone to Mai on his discovery of the De Republica of Cicero.

Anuario Bibliográfico de la República Arjentina: Ano II., 1880; Director Alberto Navarro Viola. Buenos Aires, 1881. Sm. 8vo, pp. 409, and 1 leaf unnumbered.

A list, with critical notices, of the books published during 1880 in the Argentine Confederation, which has become one of the most flourishing States of South America. Under bibliography eight books are described.

The following Indexes have recently been issued:-General Index to the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. Vols. I.-X., 1835-79. London: Printed for the Society, 1881. 4to, pp. 98, price 10s. And General Index to the Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club, first series. Vols. I.-VI., 1868-81. London : Published for the Club by D. Bogue, 1882. 8vo, pp. 22, price 6d. The latter was compiled by our member, Mr. Alpheus Smith, the Librarian of the Club.

In the (New York) Publishers' Weekly for April 8th appears thé commencement of a bibliography of books and articles relating to literary property, copyright, &c., compiled by Mr. Thorvald Solberg. The list has been looked over by Mr. Spofford, the Librarian of Congress.

In Mr. Stanford's announcement of his new map of Central Equatorial Africa it is notified that a bibliography will be published of the authorities upon which the map is based. It would be well if all maps of little known localities were accompanied with a similar list.

An interesting International Exhibition of the Graphic Arts and of Book Manufacture is to be held at Leipzig in the course of the summer. The articles exhibited will be displayed under the following sections:-1. An historical exhibition showing the progress in the making of books from 1450 to 1850; 2. Typography and printing in relief; 3. Other graphic arts; 4. Bookbinding in conjunction with printing; 5. Manufacture of machinery for printing purposes; 6. Machinery and tools for all of the above-named industries.

MM. J. de Beauchamps and Ed. Rouveyre are going to bring out a "Guide du Libraire-Antiquaire et du Bibliophile: Vade Mecum à l'usage de tous ceux qui achètent ou vendent des libres." The periodical will appear in two monthly parts of 16 pages, each with two or more plates of bindings, book-plates, rare title-pages, &c.

M. Ch. Rossler, of Havre, is preparing a bibliography of all documents, plans, prints, &c., relating to that town.

A bibliography of the numerous works of the late Paulin Paris is being compiled by his son, M. Gaston Paris.

Prof. Comparetti has been deputed to draw up a catalogue of the papyri discovered at Herculaneum.

The third fasciculus of the Bibliographie de l'Oratoire, par le Père A. M. P. Ingold, librarian of the Oratory, has lately been issued. The last part reaches to Morin.

A lengthy bibliographical notice by M. A. Fage is included in his recent edition of the Euvres de Baluze. Tulle: imp. Grauffon, 1882. Sm. 8vo, pp. 119.

Prof. Paul Meyer succeeds the late M. Quicherat as Director of the Ecole des Chartes.

A bibliography of the philosopher's writings and of works on his life and doctrines is prefixed to The Philosophical System of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati: translated by Thomas Davidson. London: Kegan Paul and Co., 1882. 8vo.

An article on "The Boke of St. Albans," in the Bibliographer for May, states that the only perfect copies known of the first edition are those in the collections of Earl Spencer and the Earl of Pembroke. The remainder of the article is occupied with the relation of an apocryphal story told o the glorification of the

We

imaginative bookseller who purchased the Littlecote copy. may remark that the Powderham copy referred to in MONTHLY NOTES of March is quite as perfect as that of Earl Spencer.

NOTES AND QUERIES.

AUTHOR WANTED ("MONTHLY NOTES," Vol. iii., p. 64)." The Perils of the Nation" was written by Robert B. Seeley. See Allibone and the Advocates' Lib. Catalogue.-C. W. S.

BOOK WASH AND VARNISH.-Our binder has given me the following recipe for the wash used by him in cleaning bookbinding :-Dissolve about two ounces of kid glue in a pint of water, add halfteaspoonful of oxalic acid, and about twelve drops of strong ammonia. Use warm with a sponge. Is there likely to be any harm to the leather from the infusion of oxalic acid? He uses the following varnish: -Spirits of wine, shellac, and benzoin. Use as much shellac as the spirits will dissolve. About a quarter of a pound of benzoin to a quart of spirits. Half-a-pound of shellac in a quart of spirits will make the varnish moderately thick.-C. W. S.

CORRESPONDENCE.

A WORD OF CAUTION.

SIR,-A man is going the round of the Libraries stating that he is an Assistant Librarian out of employment, and in search of work anything, so long as it will enable him to live. He represents himself as having been employed in different Libraries according to the town which he happens to be honouring (?) with his He told me that he had been engaged at one of the presence. Manchester Branch Libraries, and at Manchester last year he stated that he had been employed at Leicester. He accounts for being out of employment by saying that he left Library work to accept a clerkship at the Cape; the climate brought on fever, and he was sent home again, and, on inquiry, he told me that he had been back in England eight weeks. Mr. Sutton writes me that he paid Manchester a visit last summer-a little discrepancy here. He is an arrant scoundrel, a professional beggar, who has gone about the country pretty well, and seems to have learnt a great deal of the personal history of Librarians; but when he is catechised about technicalities, the imposture is at once disclosed. I might tell much more, but enough. Forewarned is forearmed; if he should visit any members of the Association they will know how to act. Yours, &c., Doncaster.

J. B.

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Contents:-Official Notices-June Monthly Meeting: Paper by Mr. Ernest C. Thomas, "Library Statistics of Europe "-"Opening of the Birmingham Libraries" "The Thomlinson Library," by W. J. Haggerston.-Library Notes-Catalogues and Reports-Notices of Bibliographies-Correspondence.

THE next Monthly Meeting of the Association will be held at the London Institution, Finsbury Circus, on Friday, July 7th, 1882, at 8 p.m., for the transaction of business.

After the Monthly Meeting will be held a Meeting of the Committee (of the whole Association) appointed to prepare illustrations to the Cataloguing Rules.

The Committee on Size-Notation will also meet.

The date of the Annual Meeting at Cambridge, has been definitely fixed for Tuesday, the 5th September, and probably three following days. A meeting of Cambridge residents has been held, and a Committee appointed to make the necessary local arrangements. The Council will be glad to receive offers of Papers as early as possible.

The following letter has been received from Mr. Edward Edwards, in acknowledgment to the intimation that he had been elected an Honorary Member of our Association :

12, Iffley Road, Oxford,
10th May, 1882.

DEAR SIR,-My most cordial and respectful thanks are offered to the Library Association for the honour they have done me in placing my name upon their roll as an Honorary Member, a distinction which I highly prize.

The one regret that mingles with my feelings of satisfaction upon the occasion is, that I can scarcely hope to testify my sense of the obligation conferred upon