Cambridge, and other places, where encouragement might be expected. By that means you would see in a little time if you had encouragement enough to go on in that way; and, if it failed, you might then think of selling the copy to some bookseller, though it would be certainly to great disadvantage. Therefore, I should think the best way would be, to try first what the booksellers would give for it; and, if you thought their proposals worth your acceptance, to close with them without undergoing any further trouble or hazard. For my part, I shall be very ready and industrious to promote whatever you resolve upon, either the carrying it on by subscription, or selling the copy to a bookseller, and doubt not when I go again to London to have frequent opportunities of serving you, if the book will be ready by that time for the press; for nothing can be done till it is so far finished, by reason no estimate can be made of the bulk and charge of it." From John Strype he received the following letter:— "I know not what method to propose to you in your dealing with a bookseller, for I am not very crafty in it myself. They commonly consider the number of sheets, and thereby compute the charge in paper and printing; and then expect competent gain for their own pains, and offer their reward to the author proportionable. Some are so honest as to tell you particularly the expenses; and then leave it to the owner of the copy to make his demands. If they have the encouragement of 100 or 150 subscriptions, they will venture to print. If they foresee they may vend 750, they will advance the author's reward. But in printing but 500 they say they make but little advantage. Some authors will be at the whole charge themselves, and allow a bookseller a consideration for selling them. I mention these things; but the best way is to talk with them yourself." However, printing was begun before the war came to an end. On 14 May, 1712, Thoresby set out from Leeds and after a journey of three days arrived in London, where he remained till 26 August. During this visit a certain amount of the work was set up in type and some of the engravings were made. The "undertaker" or publisher was one Atkins; there were two printers, Mr. Bowyer and Mr. James, the one in Whitefriars, the other in Paternoster Row. The rolling press (for engravings) was in Fetter Lane, and Mr. Sturt and Mr. Edwards are mentioned as engravers. Having set the printers at work Thoresby returned to his home and proceeded with his MSS. and the correction of proof, which was sent to him by post. At the beginning of the following year he notes, in his diary, the fire at Bowyer's premises and the destruction of twenty sheets of the "Ducatus". On 3 May, 1714, Thoresby again set off for London, where he arrived on the 6th, "Concerned at the bad news concerning the undertaker, Atkins, and my own book; said to be absconded". The following day he found, to his dismay, Atkins' house disposed of and his shop to let; and on the 8th, "with Mr. Nutt, the printer; heard yet more melancholy tidings from him and Mr. Ross, about Atkins' mismanagement". Then on 21 May, "Morning, with Mr. Dale to meet the creditors of Mr. Atkins relating to this book: they at first seemed to be hard upon me as to my charges, etc., expecting less; but upon summing up the whole, were more easy, concluding it would heal itself." As Hunter, the editor of the "Diary," states: "Of the embarrassments attending the publication of the 'Ducatus' the notices in the Diary' are not very distinct. It appears .. that Atkins had received much of the subscription money and had not advanced to Thoresby a £50 out of it according to agreement: that Atkins had assigned the property in the book to Nutt: and that there was much uncomfortable jarring with both these persons before any arrangement could be made with them." One source of the trouble is set out in graphic terms in the "Diary" on 21 June. "Morning. . . walked to Mr. Atkins' lodging; lost most of the forenoon with him, being at a sad dilemma to get the matter concluded betwixt him and Mr. Nutt, the printer, it being almost impossible to keep the one sober (at least capable of business) till the other get out of his bed." From this time on till the end of September the "Diary contains a great many references to visits to the printers and engravers, correction of proof, preparation of index, etc. The book made its appearance at about the end of July, 1715. The first correspondent to acknowledge the receipt of a copy was Thomas Hearne who wrote from Oxford on 7 August. Thoresby lived for another ten years; he died in 1725 at the age of sixty-seven. PROFESSIONAL PERIODICAL LITERATURE. The Library (April). British. 62. WILSON (J. Dover).-Martin Marprelate and Shakespeare's Fluellen. 39 pp. 63. BROWN (C.).—Shakespeare and the horse. 29 pp. LEE (E.). Recent foreign literature. 14 pp. 64. HESSELS (J. H.).—The so-called Gutenberg documents. 26 pp. 65. AXON (W. E. A.).—A year's use of the "Encyclopædia Britan nica". 9 PP. 66. SCHOLDERER (J. V.).-Albrecht Pfister of Bamberg. 7 pp. 62. This article, which will be concluded in a future issue, centres round the personality of Sir Roger Williams, a Welshman, and the best soldier of his day. The author's submission is that Williams was a possible, nay a likely, author of the Marprelate tracts, and the prototype of Shakespeare's Fluellen. The parallel between Fluellen and Sir Roger in their choler, bluntness, ready wit, vanity, pedantry, patriotism, bravery, and contempt for every one's opinion but their own had been noticed by the historians; but new ground is broken, and the circumstantial evidence for the authorship of the pamphlets is cleverly marshalled, the time being given as "while kicking his heels in England between his return from Sluys in June, 1587, and his departure for Portugal in April, 1589 ". 63. With reference to Prof. Neil Dodge's recent "Sermon on Sourcehunting" considers Shakespeare's description of the horse in "Venus and Adonis” as given in the following lines : His eares vp prickt, his braided hanging mane Round hoof, short ioynted, fetlocks shag, and long, Shows that a body of tradition as to the points of the horse existed in classical literature, and is repeated without essential variation in sixteenth-century literature, the object of the present paper being to bring out the large element of tradition embodied in the above catalogue of the points of the horse. The author attaches importance to F. Grisone's "Gli Ordini de Cavalcare," first published at Naples in 1550, and a few years later translated by Thomas Blundevill, published in London under the title, "A new booke containing the arte of ryding, and breakinge greate horses, together with the shapes and figures of many and diuers kyndes of byttes". 64. A continuation of former articles on the invention of printing, and of Gutenberg's connexion therewith. The present essay deals with Gutenberg's claims as based on the documents, generally supposed to be genuine, which Dr. Karl Schorbach, the Strassburg Librarian, interpreted and published in 1900. More particularly, attention focussed on the group of documents 1442-68, in which it is alleged Gutenberg's impecunious and embarrassed circumstances from 1442 onwards are demonstrated, and of two other documents (1457 and 1467-8), which show that Gutenberg was closely connected with the St. Victor Stift Monastery, near Mainz, and to his sojourn there is attributed mainly the legend of his invention of printing. 65. Notes representing the experiences of a user of the new edition of the "Encyclopædia Britannica". While calling attention to some of the lacuna, yet holds that it is the most useful of books of reference, and notable for learning, research, co-operation, and organization. 66. A review of Dr. Gottfried Zedler's "Die Bamberger Pfisterdrucke und die 36-Zeilige Bibel". Albrecht Pfister was the first printer of illustrated books, and of books in the German vernacular. Of the nine editions known to have been issued from Pfister's press it is claimed that Dr. Zedler's analysis of internal evidence from the typographical and linguistic points of view has enabled him to arrange all the nine with sufficient certainty in chronological order. Library World (April). 67. SAYERS (W. C. B.) and STEWART (J. D.).—The card catalogue. 9 pp. 2 pp. 3 pp. CLARKE (O. E.).-The L.A.A. in Paris. 68. A Senior. Seniority and promotion. 69. MCGILL (W.).-List of books published in reinforced or in special library binding. 7 pp. 67. Copiously illustrated and clear in diction, many of these rules challenge dissent or at least modification. "Enter authors under their real names when known. Make references from pseudonyms" is a case in point, and many cataloguers will contend that this is a direct encouragement to pedantry, as well as a regrettable departure from the practice of the use of the best-known name. So with the analytical entry. Our authors assume that Ames Piper has an article on football in John F. Wilson's "Cricket and how to play it" and their analytical author entry would read: "Piper (Ames) Football. Wilson (John F.) Cricket and how to play it." If, however, the little word In (italicized or not as the taste and fancy of the cataloguer may dictate) be added before Wilson, how much more clear and comprehensible does the entry become. 68. A plea for promoting over the head of his senior the assistant who, by study, observation, and initiative, would be the means of suggesting great improvements, and who would be capable of carrying them out. There are assistants, and even sub-librarians, who "are methodical, caring little how things are done in other libraries, and advocating no departure from the old methods. There is no thoughtful interest; no stirring after greater efficiency; no thirst for knowledge-except the latest football or cricket result. Yet we are impelled to the conclusion that the junior to be promoted is the possessor of rather intangible qualities, for the writer says: "It is not suggested that the Library |