duction to the study of English literature and literary criticism," by Prof. James Baldwin, of which the first volume (poetry) has just been issued by John E. Potter and Co., of Philadelphia. A third volume (Cholecyanin-Dzondi) of the great Index catalogue of the Surgeon-General's office has appeared. It includes 9,043 author-titles, representing 10,076 volumes, and 7,386 pampilets, as well as 8,572 subject-titles of separate works, and 28,846 titles of articles in periodicals. In the Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, No. 63, commences a list of Franklin's works (a) as owned by the Library, (b) as not owned and desired. The subjects treated in the Reference Lists of the Providence Public Library for October are Daniel Webster and the Gregorian Calendar. The Literary News for October contains "Notes on Reading," by Arthur Penn. It having been urged against the alphabetico-classed system of numbering books that it did not admit of a shelf list, Mr. Schwartz meets objectors with an article on "a new form of shelf list,” in the October number of the Library Journal. A list of the novels, plays and poems, illustrated with vignettes, and published within 1825 and 1840, is included in "Les vignettes romantiques; histoire de la littérature et de l'art, 1825-40; par Champfleury [Jules Fleury]," (Paris: E. Dentu, 1882. 8vo, 450 pp., 140 vignettes and 10 plates, price 50 frs.). A bibliography of the writings of the antiquary Jules Quicherat, containing 363 numbers, appeared in the Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes, Tome XLIII., 1882, pt. 4. The eleventh edition of "Histoire de la littérature grecque; par Alexis Pierron," (Paris: Hachette, 1882, sm. 8vo, pp. viii-656, price 4 frs.) contains a bibliographical appendix. The publication of the Annales du Bibliophile Belge (Olivier) is to be resumed. An appendix to the first volume of the following work contains a bibliography of the poet's writings: "Ferdinand Freiligrath, ein Dichterleben in Briefen, von Wilhelm Buchner," (Lahr: M. Schauenburg, 1882, 2 vols. 8vo). A list of the printed works of the maestro is appended to “Carl Maria von Weber, sein Leben und seine Werke dargestellt von August Reismann" (Berlin: Oppenheim, 1882, 8vo.) A good catalogue of the interesting exhibition of objects connected with the history of printing at Vienna can be purchased for two shillings: "Katalog der historischen Ausstellung von Wiener Buchdruck-Erzeugnissen, 1482-1882," (Wien: Frick, 1882, 8vo, pp. viii-133). A bibliography of the writings of Filippo Pananti has been added to a new edition of his "Rime e prose, con un cenno sulla sua vita per cura di Pietro Gori (Firenze: A. Salani, 1882, sm. 8vo, pp. 480, price 2 lire). As foreign cataloguers always delight in ignoring the fashion among us to give surnames as forenames, one may perhaps excuse the placing of a work by the English surgeon Mr. Spencer Wells in the Bibliografia Italiana" for November 15th under Spencer, but Walter-Scott, as a new compound name, under Walter in the very same number is rather too severe a rebuke to our insular peculia rities. FORTHCOMING BIBLIOGRAPHIES, ETC. Mr. W. Satchell is preparing a list of all the topographical works not in the British Museum, a book which will complete Mr. Anderson's excellent Book of English Topography. Mr. Satchell also proposes to index papers in antiquarian and other periodicals and transactions. A bibliography of North American philology is being prepared by Mr. J. C. Pilling, of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology. Originally intended merely as a card-catalogue for official use, the compilation has gradually assumed proportions which seem to justify its publication. It will be arranged alphabetically under authors' names, and will consist of a catalogue of writings in or upon any of the languages of North America. There are at present about 4,500 cards, representing perhaps 3,000 titles. The work of classifying these materials linguistically is to be left to a future work, which will embody the results of an attempt to classify the North American tribes upon the basis of language. Mr. Poole writes on November 18th, "Returned the last proof of my index to-day. The publishers will have it out surely and promptly in December. They are rushing the printers. I have just received 534 printed pages. It will make a beautiful book." We are glad to be able to announce the publication of a most important work on the history of binding, a subject which has never been treated with the skill and patience it deserves. Some recent English books, it is perhaps unnecessary to add, are singularly inadequate. The title will be "Histoire de la reliure et des relieurs Français." The writer, M. Er. Thoinan, has taken great pains to draw up precise genealogical accounts of the different members of the great binding families, such as Derome, Padeloup, Le Monnier, &c. The firm of Dante at Florence has begun the publication of a Collezione di curiosità inedite o rare, which is to contain a reprint of the "Index bibliothecae Laurentianae an. 1536," edited by Signor Alvisi. Two new works of Signor Giacomo Manzoni are announced by Romagnoli, of Bologna. The titles are "Studi de bibliografia analitica," and "Annali delle edizioni sonciniane." London: TRÜBNER & CO., Ludgate Hill. Single Numbers, Threepence each. Annual Subscription, post free, 3s. 6d. Library Association OF THE United Kingdom. LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS COUNCIL. HENRY BRADSHAW, Librarian, University of Cambridge. Vice-Presidents. GEORGE BULLEN, Keeper of the Printed Books, British Museum. J. D. 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