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and Nimue, or the True and the False." Six copies are 

 stated to have been privatelj'' circulated among friends, all of 

 which, except this, were reclaimed and destroyed by the 

 author. The variations from the text as ultimately published 

 afford a most instructive study. A highly interesting gift of 

 a similar character is a copy of Leigh Hunt's " Religion of 

 the Heart," prepared for republication under the title of 

 " Cardinomia," with copious MS. alterations by the author, 

 presented by Miss Ada Reynell. The family Bible of Jeremiah 

 Bentham, father of Jeremy and Sir Samuel Bentham, with 

 entries of the births of his children, has been received as 

 a gift from Sir Joseph D. Hooker, and a translation of 

 Pilgrim's Progress into the language of Rarotonga, printed 

 about 1845, on paper made from the bark of the native mul- 

 berry tree, has been presented by Sir George Grey, k.c.b. 



Presentations of collections of books and documents include 

 a most munificent one from the University of Upsala of about 

 eight thousand academical dissertations delivered before 

 the University during the last two centuries ; a highly 

 important collection of reports from labour bureaus in the 

 United Sta,tes, presented by the Central Bureau at Washing- 

 ton ; a set of Monte Videan books presented by E. M. Satow, 

 Esq., H.B.M. Minister to the Republic of Uruguay ; and a 

 continuation of the valuable annual donations of colonial 

 newspapers made for several years past by the Royal Colonial 

 Institute. 



. — The most important acquisitions of maps during 

 the past year have been : 'T Hoogh-Heemraetschap vande 

 Uytwaterende Sluysen in Kennemerlandt ende West- 

 Vrieslandt. Afgemeten en afgeteyckent deur J. Douw. 

 . . . A. Deur scripsit ... K. Decker sculpsit. 

 [1 : 31,000.] 16 sheets [Amsterdam, 1650 ?] 



Die Entdeckung Amerika's in ihrer Bedeutung fiir die 

 Geschichte des Weltbildes, von K. Kretschmer. Atlas der 

 Festschrift der Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde zu Berlin zur 

 vierhundertjahrigen Feier der Entdeckung Amerika's. 40 

 Tafeln in Farbendruck. W. H. Kiihl : Berlin, 1892. fol. 

 Festschrift. 1892. 4°. 



Theatre de I'Univers, contenant les cartes de tout le 

 Monde. Avec une brieve declaration d'icelles. Par A. 

 Ortelius. [91 maps, with " Augmentation III. " 24 maps.] 

 C. Plantin : Anvers, 1581-85, fol. The only other copy of 

 this edition of Ortelius's " Theatrum " at present known is in 

 Trinity College Library, Cambridge. 



Music— The accessions to the Collection of Music include 

 several works of interest and rarity. Among them mention 

 may be made of a set of four books of madrigals for five 

 voices (1604-7), published without author's name, but which 

 appear from the dedications to be unknown editions of the 



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