Mr. Ashdown, and Mr. John T. Page gives us 'The Death and Resting-place of the Great Lord Bacon.' Mr. Howlett, who writes on St. Alban's Abbey, observes a discreet reserve concerning the altera tions that have of late been effected. He says, with the vagueness of an ancient oracle, "In the present day opinion is much divided on the subject; but when time shall have obliterated all prejudice, the recent work will then stand forth for what it is really worth." We will take Mr. Howlett's word for thus much. Mr. W. R. Willis deals with Markets and Market Laws,' and Mr. Lewis Evans with Witchcraft in Hertfordshire. A strange engraving of the ducking of a witch (who was drowned) and her husband is among the illus trations. The Shakespeare Reference Book. By J. S. Webb. (Stock.) IF this book were but a first part we might comprehend it. A Shakspeare reference book of fewer than 120 pages can scarcely be regarded as final. The arrangement, moreover, strikes us as quaint and eccentric. We find under 'Pat,' "It will fall pat, as I told you," and under 'Harp,' "Harp not on that string, madam.' MR. ROBERT HUDSON, an old friend and contributor to N. & Q.,' died on Monday, the 20th ult., at his house at Lapworth, at the comparatively early age of sixty-four. He was a member of the Library Association from its formation, and at one time was president of the Birmingham Old Library. Mr. Hudson had gathered, by close examination of ancient deeds, materials for a history of Lapworth parish. THE Oxford University Press has nearly finished printing the first part of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri. which is being edited by Messrs. B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt for the Egypt Exploration Fund. The volume contains 158 texts, including the early fragments of St. Matthew's Gospel, Sappho, Aristoxenus, Sophocles, and other lost and extant from the first to the seventh century of our era. classics, with official and private documents dating MR. FOX-DAVIES has in preparation, and will publish in the autumn, the third edition of his very valuable Armorial Families,' an admirably illus trated book, the worth of which is shown by the fact that it will have passed through three editions in four years. It will contain a compendium of all armorial bearings legitimately in use and a list of all entitled to bear them. THE number of the Antiquary for June is especially good. The series of papers upon Old Sussex MR. BERTRAM DOBELL will shortly issue the first Farmhouses and their Furniture' finishes, and the part of a Catalogue of Early Printed Dublin concluding paper gives some very interesting illus-Books, 1601 to 1700,' by E. R. McC. Dix, with an trations. We wonder whether the author, Mr. J. introduction and notes by C. Winston Duncan. Lewis Andrá, knows that the looking glass of We should like to see the list extended. Pirated which he gives an engraving, and which dealers as many of them are, the Dublin books of the last usually misname "Chippendale," is to be found in century have an interest of their own, and deserve many cottages in the northern part of Lincolnshire. to find their bibliographer. The example given of a Bible-box" will, we fear, send the dealers as a cloud of locusts down into Sussex. Miss F. Peacock sends a curious photograph representing scenes from the life of the Prodigal Son in late sixteenth or very early seventeenth century tapestry. It is of Flemish make. WE have received the sixth number of the Public Library Journal, a quarterly magazine issued by the committees of the Cardiff and Penarth Libraries and the Cardiff Museum. It contains much useful information, no little of which will interest those who live outside the Principality of Wales. The Cardiff authorities have most wisely felt it to be their duty to form a special collection of books in the Welsh language. From small beginnings it has grown to be a very valuable gathering. We are glad to find that a separate catalogue of these books is about to be taken in hand. This will be of great service to Celtic students. We hope that the library admits works in the other Celtic tongues. All of them are sisters, or at least cousins. It would be a great thing for Wales if there were one place within its borders where the whole literature of the race might be studied. Mr. John Ward has contributed a paper on Roman Cardiff, which we have found interesting. WE have received a tabular sheet-pedigree (Mitchell & Hughes) of the descendants of the Rev. Thomas Maddock, rector of Coddington, Cheshire, who died 12 Feb., 1825. It seems to be very carefully compiled. The persons named therein are numerous, and the necessary information is given in every case. This interesting document is illustrated with well-engraved arms of the families of Maddock, Scott, Rokeby, Grey, and Edgecumbe. 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