The Royal Society's sale of books from the remains of the Howard gift included the only known copy of the Indian translation of Baxter's Call to the Unconverted, Wehkomaonganoo asquam peantogig (Cambridge, Mass.), 1664. Christie's sale of Lord Middleton's books from Wollaton Hall contained English MSS. of Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Of the Properties of Things (with The Abbey of the Holy Ghost) and Lydgate's Falls of Princes. Some rare English printed books appeared at this sale and at that by Sotheby of Lord Cromwell's books from Sprotborough Hall. But the most important volume which figured in the sale room was the Cardigan Chaucer, which was withdrawn at Sotheby's in April, and is still at Deene in Northamptonshire. This volume was stolen by a Belgian refugee, sold to a London dealer, resold to a New York dealer, and again to Vassar College. It is pleasant to record that Dr. McCracken returned the book in the most honourable and graceful way as soon as its provenance was made clear. The chief acquisitions of original editions of English books at the British Museum have been: Thomas Walkington, The Optick Glasse of Humours, 1606; Gervase Markham, The Second and Last Part of the First Book of the English Arcadia, 1613; Guarini, Il Pastor Fido, Fanshawe's version with original poems by the translator, 1648, 1647; La Calprenède, Cassandra, translated by R. Loveday, the first complete English edition, 1652; Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, Parthenissa, the London reissue of the Waterford first edition, 1655-6; John Palmer, The Catholique Planisphaer, 1658; Dryden, The Wild Gallant, one of the two editions of 1669, and probably the first; Thomas Jordan, The Goldsmith's Jubilee, 1674, the book of the Pageant of Sir Robert Vyner's Lord Mayoralty, at which Charles I and the Duke of York were present; Sir Isaac Newton, The Present State of Ireland, Dublin, 1712, an unrecorded edition; Allan Ramsay, • Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books sold by Order of the President and Council of the Royal Society (6th-8th April), Sotheby. Catalogue of Valuable Books from the Wollaton Hall Library (15th-18th June), Christie, Manson & Woods. 6 Catalogue of Manuscripts... (6th-8th April), Sotheby. Elegy on Maggie Johnston, 1717, Content, 1719, Familiar Epistles, 1719, Richy and Sandy, 1719, Health, 1724; Defoe, An Impartial History of the Life of Peter Alexowitz [Peter the Great], 1723; John Wesley, Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord [1745?]; Johnson, Journal of a Tour to the Western Islands, 2nd and 3rd editions, 1775 and 1785. A sermon preached in Hampshire in the rainy season of 1623 is worth quoting for its title: James Rowlandson, God's Blessing in Blasting and his Mercy in Mildew. The Museum also acquired some literary manuscripts: the two final chapters (one subsequently cancelled) of Persuasion, the only surviving MS. of any of Jane Austen's greater novels; autograph poems of Austin Dobson and J. E. Flecker; and letters of Dorothy Wordsworth, Maria Edgeworth, and Cardinal Manning. The Bodleian Quarterly Record continued to publish lists of desiderata, and numerous gaps were in consequence filled; the chief were Mansfield Park, 1814, presented by Mr. Justice Mackinnon, completing the Bodleian's set of the novels; Cowley's Poeticall Blossomes, 1638; Prior's Archibaldi Pitcarnii Carmen [1712]; Gay's Trivia, 1716, and Two Epistles, 1720; Savage's Love in a Veil, 1715; and a number of minor editions of pieces by Wordsworth and Coleridge. An article by Dr. R. B. McKerrow on Elizabethan Printers and the Composition of Reprints (Library, v. 357-64) is of importance to textual critics and editors. All who have made use of the Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, issued by the Modern Humanities Research Association, will regret that volume v, covering the publications of 1925, is the last to be edited by Dr. A. C. Paues. The work that she has carried on so ably for five years will now be undertaken by Miss D. Everett. INDEX Abercrombie, L., The Idea of Great Adams, J. Q.: see Northup, C. S. Adorno, Concetto, 'Italy' di Samuel Agate, J., The Contemporary Theatre, Alden, R. M., A Shakespeare Hand- Allen, P. S., Erasmus' Service to Allen, P. S. and H. M., Sir Thomas Allestree, Richard, and The Whole Anson, Elizabeth and Florence, Archer-Hind, L., introd. Johnson's Arns, K., Jüngstes England: Antho- tity of the play of Squire Trelooby Askew, H., Parents of Cyriack Skin- Ault, N., ed. Elizabethan Lyrics, Austen, Jane, 292-3; Lady Susan, Bab, J., Shakespeare: Wesen und Bailey, J., Some Notes on the Unpopu- Fall, 199; sources for Milton's ... Bauer, R., Die Iren in der Dar- Baxter, Richard, 205–6. Beach, J. W., Expostulation and Beaumont, A., The Hero: a Theory Benedetti, A., La Sicilia del Teatro Bensel, E. Van der Ven-Ten, The Bensly, E.: see Wainewright, J. B. Beresford, J., Letters of Thomas Gray, Berthold, Luise, Die Quellen für die sis, 39. Best, Charles, 203. Bibliographical Society, 118. Birkhead, Edith, Sentiment and Sen- Blackie, E. M., ed. Henry Roberts's Bloomfield, L., Einiges vom germani- Blümel, R., Die rhythmischen Mittel, Boas, F. S., Crosfield's Diary and the Bodleian Library acquisitions, 330. Bond, R. Warwick, The Art of Nar- Borowski, B., Funktion, Affekt, Glie- Bosanquet, Theodora, Henry James Boswell, James, 227, 229-30; Bos- well's Note Book, 1776-1777, 226-7. Brandl, A., Festschrift in honour of: Anglica: Untersuchungen zur eng- Bray, Sir D., The Original Order of Brie, F., Das Märchen von Childe British Museum acquisitions, 329- Britwell Library sale, 328. Broadribb, C. W., Pope: his Friend- Brown, Beatrice D., on the source of of An Holy Medytacion, 100-1. Browning, Robert, 289-90. Bruce, H., William Blake in this Brugmann, K., Die Syntax des ein- Brusendorff, A., The Chaucer Tradi- Buchan, J., The Old and New in Buck, H. S., A Study in Smollett, Burns, Robert, 233-4, 263. Bush, J. N. D., Martin Parker's Butler, Samuel, 316-18. Byron, Lord, 275-80. Cadmon, 79-80. Camp, R. W., The Artisan in Eliza- Campbell, O. F., Love's Labour's Cardim, L., trans. William Shake- Cardozo, J. L., The Contemporary Carlyle, Thomas, 298-301. Cartwright, Thomas, 205. Caxton, William, 117. Cé, C., and Servajean, H., trans. Chambers, Sir E. K., Elizabethan Stage Chapman, R. W., ed. Letters of Childers, J. S., ed. Southey's Lives Cibber, Colley, 221-2. Clark, A. F. B., Boileau and the Clark, A. M., A Marlowe Mystifica- Clark, B. H., A Study of the Modern Clark, D. L., Rhetoric and Poetry in Clark, E. M., The Kinship of Hazlitt Clark, W. S., Further Light upon the Clift, R. C. see Mead, G. C. I. Colby, E., ed. The Life of Thomas Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 270-2. Cook, A. S., Bitter-beer Drinking, 79 ; ander Neckham, 168; Spenser's Use Cowper, William, 231-2. Cox, E. Marion, trans. Louise Labé's Coxon, R., Chesterfield and his Critics, Craig, E. Gordon, on Evelyn's con- Craig, H., Shakespeare's Depiction of Craigie, W. A., The Nationality of Crawford, J. S., Milton and Aldhelm, Crawford, S. J., The Cadmon Poems, Cross, W. L., The Life and Times of Crump, G. H., A Guide to the Study Daborne, Robert, 144-5. Dam, B. A. P. van, Textual Criticism Daniel, M. S., An Elizabethan Words- Daniel, Samuel, 182, 184. Davison, E., Robert Burns: A Recon- Dean, K. W., 118. De Froe, A., Laurence Sterne and his |