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The principal features of the Rules governing election to all Pensions are, that each candidate shall have been (1) a member of the Institution for not less than ten years preceding application; (2) not less than fifty-five years of age; (3) engaged in the sale of newspapers for at least ten years. RELIEF.-Temporary relief is given in cases of distress, not only to Members of the Institution, but to newsvendors or their servants who may be recommended for assistance by members of the Institution. Inquiry is made in such cases by Visiting Committees, and relief is awarded in accordance with the merits and requirements of each case. W. WILKIE JONES, Secretary. ABOUT 2,000 BOOKS WANTED Are advertised for weekly in 'THE PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR AND BOOKSELLERS' RECORD' (ESTABLISHED 1837), Which also gives Lists of the New Books published during the week, Announcements of New Books, &c. Subscribers have the privilege of a Free Advertisement for Four Books Wanted weekly. 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REMARKABLE COMETS: a Brief Survey most interesting Facts in the History of Cometary Asti By W. T. LYNN, B.A. F.R.A.S. SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO, LIMITED, EIGHTH EDITION, fcap. 8vo, cloth, price Sixpence. REMARKABLE ECLIPSES: a Sketch o most interesting Circumstances connected with the Obse of Solar and Lunar Eclipses, both in Ancient and Modern Tim W. T. LYNN, B.A. F.R.A.S. SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO., LIMITED, LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1906. CONTENTS.-No. 130. spelling of names or the titles of firms, &c. Two or three names added from W. C. B.'s list are indicated with his initials. N. Collington, 1790. ALRESFORD. NOTES:-Hampshire Booksellers and Printers, 481-Houses 484 Reynolds's Portrait of Gibbon, 487. QUERIES:-Geoffrey de Lusignan Robert Wingfield's Descendants-Rokewood: Style: Townsend-"Egoteles' -City of London Militia, 1716, 488-Holm and Mastick Trees Authors of Quotations Wanted - Companies of Invalids their Records-Medical Coroner-Eschylus and Milton-Eton Swishing-Christina, Queen of SwedenLake of St. Lampierre in Canton of Berne-Macaulay on the Thames Wall Family, 489-" Cera Panis "-Gordon House, Kentish Town-John Rodes - Devon Provincialisms, 490. W. Roe, 1790 Palmer, 1791. ALTON. William Pinnock, author of the familiar school- Anthony Uwins, bookseller, 1725-7. BASINGSTOKE. REPLIES:-Ballad by Reginald Heber: W. Crane, 490- NOTES ON BOOKS:-'Portraits and Jewels of Mary Botes. HAMPSHIRE BOOKSELLERS AND IN the list of provincial booksellers contributed by W. C. B. ante, pp. 141, 183, 242, there are 13 in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. In making researches some years ago into the history of journalism and the press in Hampshire I collected the names of about 100 booksellers and printers down to the end of the eighteenth century, and as this list has not hitherto been printed it may be useful to put it on record. The names have been mainly taken from the title-pages of books, which were often stated to be printed for" or "sold by" a number of booksellers in different towns. Two or three engaged in associated trades - an engraver, a bookbinder, and a stationerhave also been included; and it is curious to note how the selling of quack medicines was frequently associated with the selling of books. The following list has not, with a few exceptions, been brought down later than the year 1800; and the earliest and latest years in which each name has been found are noted, together with variations in the Thomas Peacock, bookseller, haberdasher, milliner, Ph. Jenkins, 1790. CHRISTCHURCH. COWES (WEST), I.W. Pottle, 1791. FAREHAM. GOSPORT. James Philpott or Philpot, printer, Middle Street, 1710-36. (Cf. Winchester.) John Gover, bookseller, 1735. M. Maberley, 1750. William Dawkins, printer, Middle Street, 1784. J. Grist, Gosport, and Portsmouth Common, 1788. William Harding, 1790. William Stephen Harding Wm. Johnson, succeeded Watts about 1800. R Jones, 1789-90. NEWPORT, I.W. Mr. Keeblewhite, bookseller, 1684-93. John Dun ton, a bookseller, printer, and miscellaneous J. Wise, 1768. The Miss Wises, booksellers, 1782. John Sturch, bookseller, 1782-94. 1795 6. James Robbins, printer, 1788; north side of High 903.) For booksellers and printers to Winchester College see 10th S. v. 415. Those who desire further information with regard to the printers in this list may be referred to two papers which I wrote some years ago The Early Newspaper Press of Hampshire,' read before the Hampshire Literary and Philosophical Society, Southampton, 4 March, 1889, and printed in The Hampshire Independent; and Early Hampshire Printers,' in the 'Papers and Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club,' 1891. Both papers were reprinted in pamphlet form. Gilbert and Godwin's Bibliotheca Hantoniensis,' 1891, which is marred by some inexcusable blunders, omits to record the names of the publishers of the books, and even, in many cases, the place of publication! Where the name of the printer or publisher has somehow slipped in, it is as the author of the work! Thus The Portsmouth Guide (supposed to have been written by Luke Taswell) is attributed to R. Carr; and the Rev. T. Warton's Description of... Winchester' to W. Greenville. I contributed to this work a list of Hampshire newspapers. The Supplementary Hampshire Bibliography,' by the Rev. Sumner Wilson, in the Papers and Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club,' vol. iii., 1898, pp. 306-16, also omits names of publishers, and in many cases place of publication. Any additions to the above list, or corrections, will be welcomed. FREDK. A. EDWARDS, F.R.G.S., M.J.I. 39, Agate Road, Hammersmith, W. HOUSES OF HISTORICAL INTEREST. AT 10th S. iv. 486 I alluded to some of the tablets affixed by the London County Council to houses which have become historical, and since then several houses have been thus distinguished, which I now propose to put on record for future reference. Some time towards the end of February a tablet was affixed to the front of No. 110, Gower Street, where Charles Darwin lived from 1839 to 1842. Darwin, in the former year, soon after his return from the epoch-making เ voyage of the Beagle, was married to his "in later years my father used to laugh over the "During the three years and eight months whilst we resided in London, I did less scientific work, though I worked as hard as I possibly could, than during any other equal length of time in my life." He alludes to his spells of ill-health as being the chief cause of this; but he did contrive to give much time to his work on Coral Reefs' (a work begun before his marriage), the last proof-sheet being corrected on 6 May, 1842. That year the Darwin household removed into the country, and on 14 September they were settled at Down, in Kent, where Darwin remained until his death. Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, is not one of the thoroughfares on the Surrey side of the Thames where houses of historical interest would be looked for. Yet there is one, and in this house John Rennie spent the closing years of his life. It is No. 18, and is a well-built, substantial house, telling of a period when the houses were let to a better class than they have been for many years past. Rennie resided here during the most important portion of his career, and from this house were issued many of the important engineering ventures which brought him considerable fame. He often spent fifteen hours a day at his work, and it was while living here that he designed and superintended the construction of both Waterloo and Southwark Bridges, which must tend to make this house of much interest to lovers of London. The formation of the London and East and West India Docks, and also the designing and erection of new machinery for the Royal Mint, were comprised in the same period, as were many important works outside London. A tablet has been affixed by the London County Council, recording Rennie's connexion with this house. It is placed by the side of the door, at the sight level-a great improvement, for the majority of those that have been put up are so high as to be barely readable. pictures to the Academy, the most famo being 'Salisbury Cathedral,' The Corn-Fiel Hampstead Heath,' 'Waterloo Bridge,' 'T Lock,' and 'The Valley Farm.' At Charlot Street he died suddenly, 31 March, 1837, fro heart failure. The work of the London County Counc in marking these houses is much to be cor mended. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY, Westminster. [A house in Hampstead Road bears a tab notifying that it was the residence of Cruikshar It was also that of Clarkson Stanfield.] ROBERT GREENE'S PROSE WORKS. (See 10th S. iv. 1, 81, 162, 224. 483; v. 84, 202, 3 424, 442, 463.) Upon the house now known as No. 110, Hallam Street (formerly Charlotte Street), Portland Place, a tablet has been placed recording that Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born there, his father being a teacher of Italian. Young Rossetti was something of an infant prodigy, for we learn that his first poem was written in his own handwriting towards the age of five," but his brother adds, "He may have been just six-rather than five-but I am not certain." His first picture was of his rocking horse; this is said to have been attempted at the age of about four." Drawing had a rare fascination for him, and once having started, he never dropped the I HAVE yet one more extract to make fr notion, his brother stating that he could not Primaudaye. It will be in answer to t remember a time "when it was not under- query, Has any other contemporary E stood in the family that Gabriel meant to lish writer of importance availed himself be a painter." Drawings-many of them this storehouse of research? It appears truly recognized as very childish efforts-me a reasonable conjecture that Marlo appeared in rapid succession. In 1836 the family removed to No. 50 in the same street, and after the midsummer holidays young Dante, then nearing his ninth year, was first sent to school, his previous education having been home-given. His career is well known, and need not be recalled here. Lovers of the art of John Constable will be glad to know that the London County Council has recognized his worth by placing a tablet upon No. 76, Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, where the great exponent of landscape lived and died. He began his residence there in 1822. and from a letter dated 31 October in that year we gather that he had many difficulties in getting the alterations and repairs satisfactorily carried out, and he adds :: "I have got the large painting room into excel lent order; it is light, airy, sweet, and warm. I at one time despaired of attaining either of those qualities. I have now two six-footers in hand-one of which I shall send to the Gallery-at 2007." Five years later he seems to have tired of his quarters here, and to have longed to see nature" and to be "out of the way of idle callers"; and in addition his wife's health caused him great anxiety, so he moved to a house at Well Walk, Hampstead, and let off a portion of the Charlotte Street residence. In November, 1828, his wife died at Hampstead, and, saddened by the loss, "he returned with his children to his house in Charlotte Street, but retained the one in Well Walk as an occasional residence." From his studio at Charlotte Street he sent many drew therefrom his earliest hints for his f drama, 'The First Part of Tamburla the Great,' which is believed to have fi appeared in 1587, the year in which Gre began to find T. B(owes's) translation desirable. In dealing with this import subject I am referring for Marlowe to Wa English Dramatic Literature,' Dyce's 'M lowe,' and especially to Bullen's Introduct to his edition of the dramatist. Bullen g into the question of Marlowe's sources his play at some length; from the pages The Academy (20 Oct., 1883) he quotes fr Messrs. Herford and Wagner, who h shown that "Marlowe was indebted to lives of Timur by Pedro Mexia and Pet Perondinus." Mexia's 'Silva de Varia Lecic (1543) was translated into English and kno as Fortescue's 'The Foreste,' which appea in 1571; "and there can be little doubt t the book was an early favourite of Marlowe says Mr. Bullen. Of course Mexia r have been the source whence Primaud also drew his sketch, since there was a Fre translation. I have not access to " Foreste.' It would be an interesting p of research to see if Primaudaye sup ments in any respect the account the which Marlowe drew from. The article u Timour in the Encyclopædia Britanni (ninth ed.) gives the date of Perondinus 1600, a Latin memoir. The earliest reference to Marlowe's p by name that has been quoted is f Greene's 'Perimedes' (Gosart, vii. 8), 'Addı to the Reader,' where Greene shows him |