tunity of obtaining, by means of the "Students' Edition," a cheap and complete set of the various productions with which he has enriched our language. Guide de l'Amateur d'Objets d'Art et de Curiosité; ou Collection des Monogrammes des principaux Sculpteurs en pierre, métal et bois, des Ivoiriers, des Emailleurs, des Armuriers, des Orfèvres et des Médailleurs du Moyen-Age et des Époques de la Renaissance et du Rococo. Par Dr. J. G. Théodore Graesse, Second Directeur du Grüne Gewölbe à Dresde, etc. (Dresden; London, Nutt.) Those of our readers who are acquainted with the combined industry and intelligence displayed in the various bibliographical works of Dr. Graesse, will congratulate such of their friends as are lovers of virtu that the learned Second Director of the Green Vault at Dresden has brought his varied knowledge to bear upon the illustration of their favourite pursuits. Some years since Dr. Graesse published a Guide de l'Amateur de Porcelaines et de Poteries, ou Collection complète des Marques de Fabriques de Porcelaines et de Poteries de l'Europe et de l'Asie, of which a revised and enlarged edition appeared in 1868. This he has now followed up by a similar work on the monograms to be found on enamels, mosaics, works in ivory, &c.-a work which he has been induced to undertake in consequence of being frequently applied to for information on such points. Both works are of very moderate extent; and probably do not contain all that will be looked for in them; but, based as they are on the personal researches of a man like Dr. Graesse, they cannot fail to be of value and interest to all those for whose special use they have been compiled. A Century of Scottish Life. Memorials and Recollections of Remarkable Persons, with Illustrations of Caledonian Humour. By the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D., F.S.A. Scot., &c. (Nimmo.) Dr. Rogers' Century of Scottish Life is so designated by him, because it embraces memorials and anecdotes of remarkable Scotchmen during the last hundred years. It is his fourth publication illustrative of Caledonian life and manners, and exhibits in a very striking fashion pictures of a state of society fast passing away. Dr. Rogers loves a good story, and tells one well; and many excellent anecdotes, cleric, civic, and rural, are scattered through his pages. That the book will rival in popularity the Reminiscences of the author's friend Dean Ramsay, whose work he tells us has reached "the nineteenth edition," we will not venture to suggest; but the reader who takes up The Century of Scottish Life must be hard to please, who does not find in it much to interest and amuse him. MORE than fourscore years have elapsed since the Daily Universal Register (established in 1785) changed its name to The Times, respecting which it was said in the Prospectus, of which we published a fac-simile in "N. & Q" of Jan. 6, 1866, that the title of "Times" had been chosen as being "at once more laconic and comprehensive of its design." The change was made on New Year's Day, 1788. Five years later the circulation of the paper did not exceed 1,000 copies! We hear that a history of the above-named journal, from its foundation to the passing of the Reform Bill, is now in progress, and is likely to appear in the autumn. THE death of Mrs. Elizabeth Abell, on the 29th ult. is reported. In her maiden days, as Miss Balcombe, she was known to every reader of the memoirs of the First Napoleon's career, as the young lady whose sprightliness and sympathy were among the few things which rendered his latter days in exile at St. Helena supportable. EARLY TYPOGRAPHY AND RARE MSS.-The seventh portion of the very valuable and extensive library of the Rev. Thomas Corser, M.A., F.S.A., of Stand Rectory, near Manchester, was sold on Monday and Tuesday last, continuation of the important series of early English at the rooms of Messrs. Sotheby. It comprised a further poetry, beautifully illuminated Hora and other curious MSS.; an extensive series of the works of John Taylor, the Water Poet; specimens of early typography, including a magnificent copy of "Vitas Patrum," by Wynkyn De Worde, 1495, and many curiosities of literature. The "Vitas," "translated out of Frensche into Englysshe by Wyllyam Caxton of Westmynstre, late deceased, and finysshed it at the laste daye of his lyfe," fetched 142 guineas. THE death is announced of Dr. Alexander Keith Johnston, the eminent geographer, in his sixty-seventh year. Dr. Johnston was honorary or corresponding member of the principal geographical societies of Europe, Asia, and America, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; and the University of that city in 1865 conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL.D. His writing on medical geography procured him the diploma of the Epidemiological Society of London, and for the first physical globe he was awarded the medal of the Great Exhibition of London, in 1851. MR. W. D. CHRISTIE, formerly minister in Brazil, bas been elected one of the three trustees of the London Library, in the place of Mr. Grote. The other two trustees are Earl Stanhope and Lord Lyttelton. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES Particulars of Price, &c., of the following books to be sent direct to the gentlemen by whom they are required, whose names and addresses are given for that purpose : ANNALS OF IRELAND; Four Masters, by Conellan. 4to. 1847. Wanted by Mr. Charles Sotheran, 6, Meadow Street, Moss-Side, near Manchester. MACBETH, edited by Jennens about 1770. By itself or in a volume of Plays. MACBETH, by Davenant, 1674, or later. Wanted by Mr. A. R. Smith, 36, Soho Square, London. DRAKE'S HISTORY OF YORK. GOULD'S BIRDS OF EUROPE. 5 Vols. WALTON'S SACRA BIBLIA POLYGLOTTA. 6 Vols. Wanted by Mr. Thomas Beet, Bookseller, 15, Conduit Street, Notices to Correspondents. AGATHOS is referred to Brunet's Manuel du Libraire, s. v. "Th. Bartholini” (i. 675, ed. 1860.) H. H. (Brandon.)- We cannot undertake to write private letters to Correspondents. OLD SONG.-The Hunting Song, consisting of thirteen quatrain verses, is too long for quotation. It is printed in Songs of the Chace, 1811, 12mo, p. 268. It commences— "Scarce the hounds were in cover, when off Reynard flew." W. S. WALKER, who asks for the purchasing power of the pound sterling in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, is referred to twenty articles on the value of money at different periods in the first three Series of "N. & Q." 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