September 1, 1923 677 Capuchin Mission Macmillan Ord India and its missions. Crowell Heath Junior English. Buhlig, R. 96c. Lengthened shadow, The. Locke, W. J. $2 Dodd Light and colour. Houstoun, R. A. $2.50 Longmans Losing gain, The. Upright, B. $2 W. J. Watt Mass. General Hospital Training School, History of the. Parsons, S. E. $3.50 Whitcomb & Barrows Master Tyll Owlglass. Mackenzie, K. R. H. $3 Dutton Materia medica, A manual of. Blackwood, A. Maurice. Scribe, A. E. 75c. Mr. Evans. Alington, C. A. $2 Little, B. Macmillan Chetty, D. G. $1.50 Dutton Noble New Testament story-land. Adams, L. M. $I Dutton Union Press Number projects for beginners. McLaughlin, K. L. and Troxell, E. $1.60 Lippincott Odyssey, The. Homer. $3 Old Testament story-land. Adams, L. M. $I Union Press Nat'l Pr. Co. Out of the past. Postgate, R. W. $1.50 Omaha, The story of. Sorenson, A. $7 Houghton Parents' manual, A. Groszmann, M. $2 Century Patrolling in Papua, Humphries, W. 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On the topmost ledge of Slide Mountain, the highest peak in the Catskills, the Winnisook Club has dedicated a tablet to the memory of John Burroughs. Modern first editions will make a very important factor in the auction sales of the coming season in this city. The Victorian period of English literature will be especially well represented. Kate Douglas Wiggin, who died in London a few days ago, was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, whom, as a small girl, she met on his trip to the United States. She went to England in June as a delegate to the Dickens Fellowship from New York. Among the special editions of the Riverside Press to be published in November is Archibald Anderson's "Washington's Southern Tour," limited to 1,000 copies. This story of Washington's journey to the Southern States in 1791, derived from his journals and letters, and from other sources, gives the reader an interesting view of the South in the early days of the Republic. The story comes from Berlin of the theft from the Marien-Bibliothek, in Halle, of the unique manuscript of Luther's Catechism. The theft was traced to a high official who was known as a book lover and collector and a frequent visitor to libraries. A search of his home brought to light 180 old books, some of great rarity, which had mysteriously disappeared in recent years, the total value of which reached a very high figure. A new edition of Amiel's "Journal Intime," in three volumes, edited by Bernard Bouvier, has appeared in Paris, and French critics are unanimously of the opinion that the earlier twovolume edition, translated into English by Mrs. Humphry Ward, must be superseded by the new edition, which contains twenty-five per cent of unpublished material, and a new arrangement and a more perfect text of the hitherto published portion. The new edition, however, is only a fragment, for it is estimated that the whole journal would make seventy volumes like those now being published. The task of deciphering the old Latin manuscript of the Bible at the museum of the His panic Society of America, in New York, is to be resumed next month by Dr. E. S. Buchanon, paleographer, whose first translations started a controversy that is still raging among Biblical scholars. In his earlier findings Dr. Buchanon said that there was no basis for belief in the day of judgment, in baptism, in hell, and in the sacraments. Dr. Buchanon has explained that it was with the permission of Archer M. Huntington that he was to have free access to the vellum which Mr. Huntington owns and that he would take up the work where he left off seven years ago. An announcement has just been made that the old home of Eugene Field in Chicago has been sold and is to be torn down to make way for a residential hotel. The library, containing some 4,500 volumes, will be sold at Anderson's during the coming season. The famous Field collections, aside from the library, will be divided among the members of the family. Mr. Field when abroad made it a rule to buy a cane in every town he visited. This collection of And European walking sticks is still intact. everything else which he gathered is still preserved from the large pine cones given him by the Governor of Louisiana to the queer old clocks which he prized so highly. There are also collections of bottles, jade, china, rock crystal, silver, bronzes, and statues. His letter books fill several shelves. These relics are considered so intimate and precious that the family will not part with them. In the exhibition to be held here this fall or the recent work of Muirhead Bone, the English artist, will show about a dozen dry point etchings and a number of crayon and water color drawings of New York views which he made during his recent visit to this country. It may not be well known to the majority of art lovers, tho it is generally known among collectors of etchings, that to obtain a new print by Bone one must be listed among the first twenty-eight to forty subscribers to his output. The same is virtually the case with James McBey and D. Y. Cameron, two other outstanding contemporary British etchers, who it is said limit their editions of prints to fewer than two score. This is viewed as good judgment because it maintains a high quality of their work and does not have the tendency to oversupply their market. If the interest in prints continues to grow, these editions will probably be increased a little. The tendency now, however, is to a close limit surely not to exceed the immediate demand. 3 In an article on "Celebrating the Tercentenary of the First Folio" in The International Book Review, Paul Kaufman gives much bibliograph-, ical information of interest. Among the association copies, he mentions the Torbutt copy discovered early in this century. Worn and patched, imperfect as it is, unique and romantic associations make it one of the most interesting books of the world. This copy was the original which the Stationers' Company sent in accord with the agreement with Sir Thomas Bodley to the library at Oxford now bearing his name. There it was bound in 1624 and fastened to the shelf in the reading room with a chain several feet in length, as customary with the more valuable books. And there it remained until the Third Folio of 1663 with seven additional plays made it supposedly superfluous. It was then sold off, and early in the eighteenth century appeared in the library of Richard Torbutt, of Ogston Hall, Derbyshire, where it escaped unnoticed until G. M. R. Torbutt brought it forth in the original binding in 1902. It was soon identified as the copyright original of the Bodleian Library, whence it was returned through the generous loyalty of Oxford men at a cost of £3,000, after an absence of 260 years, and where it now fittingly reposes for all time. Stories periodically come from Washington of the discovery of valuable autograph letters, documents and historical papers. This time it is a package of letters containing seven written by Washington, and others by Lafayette, Jefferson, Monroe, and Jay. All belong to the Revolutionary War period and some of them are of special historical interest. They were found by Walter Tyler Page, clerk of the House of Representatives, on the musty record shelves of the House this summer. In a letter written November 18, 1781, relating to the Battle of Yorktown, Washington says: "I thank you for your kind congratulations on the capitulation of Cornwallis. It is an interesting event and may be productive of much good if properly improved but if it should be the means of relaxation, and sink us into supineness and security, it had better not have happened. Great Britain for some time past has been encouraged by the impolicy of our conduct to continue the war and should there be interference of European Politics in her favour, peace may be further removed from us than we expect, while one thing we are sure of and that is, that the only certain way to obtain Peace is to be prepared for War. Policy, interest, economy, all unite to stimulate the States to fill the Continental Battalions, and provide the means of supporting them. I hope the present favorable moment for doing so will not be neglected." When the French War Library and Museum are moved into permanent quarters at the Chateau de Vincennes next year, an entire room will be appropriated to American books that have been written in regard to different phases of the great conflict. There are already 8,000 volumes in the American collection and it is still growing rapidly. The museum has one of the most complete collections of war posters in existence and prizes it very highly. The Germans, it is estimated, have written 25,000 volumes in regard to the war, the French coming next with upwards of 15,000 volumes. This library was undertaken by the French government to develop a work started by a wealthy Frenchman, who early in the war began assembling books, pamphlets, reF. M. H. ports, etc. Catalogs Received Miscellaneous books. R. (No. 15; Items 580.) Fletcher, Ltd., 23, New Oxford St., W. C. 1, London, England. Miscellaneous books from a private collection, (No. 392; Items 822.) James G. Commin, 230, High St., Exeter, England. New and second-hand books and manuscripts in and on the languages of India and further India. (Items 1922.) Luzac & Co., 46, Great Russell St., W. C. 1, London, England. Remarkable autographs. (Catalog FF; Items 38.) 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