DEPAETMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 27 



collection ot arrangements and compositions for the lute. The 

 book contains specimens of the work of two English musicians, 

 Anthony Holborne and John Dowland. Four other copies only 

 are known. 



Philips, Peter : " Cantiones Sacrse." 8 pts. Antwerp, 1613. 



A volume containing four collections of Motets printed at 

 Venice between the years 1645 and 1648. 



Donations. — Many valuable books have been presented 

 to the Library during the past year. Among these are the 

 following : — 



" Arms and Armour at Sandringham. The Indian collection 

 presented by the Princes of India to His Majesty King 

 Edward VIT. when Prince of Wales, 1875-1876." London, 1 910. 

 Presented by order of Her Majesty Queen Alexandra. 



" Catalogue of paintings and drawings in Buckingham 

 Palace." London, 1909. Presented by the Lord Chamberlain. 



A complete set of the books printed by the late William 

 Morris at the Kelmscott Press, consisting of fifty-four works in 

 sixty- eight volumes. Presented by Mrs. William Morris. 



Proofs of a lecture of George Meredith "• On the Idea of 

 Comedy and of the uses of the Comic Spirit," delivered at the 

 London Institution, 1st February, 1877. With MS. notes, 

 additions and corrections by the author. Presented by Miss 

 J. L. Benecke. 



" Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Vols. I.-IV. Catalogue of the 

 printed books preserved at Haigh Hall, Wigan." 4 vol. 

 Aberdeen University Press, 1910, and 



" Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Vols. V., VI. A Bibliography of 

 Royal Proclamations of the Tudor and Stuart Sovereigns, 1485- 

 1714." With an historical essay on their origin and use by 

 R. Steele. 2 vol. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1910. Presented 

 by the Earl of Crawford, K.T. 



" Facsimile of the Washington Manuscript of Deuteronomy 

 and Joshua in the Freer Collection." With an introduction by 

 H. A. Sanders. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 

 1910. Presented through the Library of the University of 

 Michigan by Mr C. L. Freer. 



" II Codice di Leonardo da Vinci della Biblioteca di Lord 

 Leicester pubblicato sotto gli auspici del R. Instituto Lombardo 

 di Scienze e Lettere da Gerolamo Calvi." Milan, 1909. 

 Presented by Mr. 0. Calvi. 



" Photographs of Palace Buildings of Peking, compiled by the 

 Imperial Museum of Tokyo. Collotyped from the negatives by 

 K. Ogawa. With explanatory notes in Japanese, English and 

 Chinese." Tokyo, 1906, and 



" Decorations of Palace Buildings of Peking. With eighty 

 plates." Tokyo, 1906. Presented by Mr. Isshiu Ogawg^, 



