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" her sweete breath therewith." There
are allusions to the practice, too, in Ben
Jonson and other dramatists (see Cob's
last speech but one in ' Every Man in his
Humour,' in. ii.). C. C. B.
"THE BEST OF ALL GOOD COMPANY": JOHN BRIGHT (11 S. iv. 508). The series entitled "The Best of all Good Company," edited by the late Blanchard Jerrold, con- sisted of six parts. John Bright was not included among them. The parts, published at Is. each, were (1) Charles Dickens, (2) Sir Walter Scott. (3) Lord Lytton, (4) Lord Beaconsfield, (5) W. M. Thackeray, (6) Douglas Jerrold. They are still to be had, I understand, both collectively and sepa- rately, from Messrs. Houlston & Sons.
W. SOOTT.
DICKENS : MR. MAGNUS'S SPECTACLES (11 S. v. 106). The conjecture seems worth hazarding that, taken with its context, Die kens "s substitution of " green " for " blue " may have been intentional. Be it remembered, he had the green-eyed monster of jealousy in his mind as he wrote.
CECIL CLARKE.
Junior Athenaeum Club.
COUXTY BIBLIOGRAPHIES (11 S. iv. 488; v. 30 \ I now give the second portion of my list :
Derbyshire No bibliography exists. The Derby Public Library contains the "Devonshire" Collection of Derbyshire Books, the nucleus of which was presented by the late Duke of Devonshire.
Devonshire No county deserves more to be taken in hand. Numerous partial biblio- graphies exist. It remains for some one to blend the whole into one good work similar to the Bibliotheca Cornubiensis or Mr. Emanuel Green's Somerset Bibliography.
Davidson, James (of Secktor House, Axminster), Bibliotheca Devoniensis, a Cata- logue of the Printed Books relating to the County of Devon. Exeter, 1852, with Supplement. This is a very incomplete work, and yet has done good service.
Rowe (Joshua Brooking), Address before the Devonshire Association. Plymouth, 1882 (reprinted separately from the Transactions). Appendix B contains a list of histories of towns, parishes, &c., in Devonshire, either printed or in MS.
See also the same author's The Guides, Handbooks, &c., of the Three Towns, Ply- mouth, Stonehouse, Devonport (Journal of the Plymouth Institution, 1877).
Dredge (John Ingle), Devon Booksellers and Printers in the Seventeenth and Eigh- teenth Centuries. Privately printed. Ph'- mouth, 1885.
Brushfield (Thomas Nadauld), Bibliography of Sir Walter Raleigh. 1886. Plymouth,
W. H. Luke. Bibliography of Andrew Brice^
and Remarks on the Early History of Exeter-
Newspapers. Privately printed. Exeter^
1888. Richard Isacke- and his Antiquities
of Exeter. 1893.
Worth (R. N.), The Three Towns Biblio- theca : a Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets,. Papers written by Natives Thereof and Published Therein or Relating Thereto, with Brief Biographical Notices of the Principal' Authors. Plymouth, 1873. A Supplement was issued.
Wright (W. H. K.), Catalogue of the Ply* mouth Free Library with Devonshire and Cornwall Collections. 1892. A Plea for Devonshire Bibliographv. Plymouth, W. H.. Luke. 1885.
Index (Separate) to The Western Anti- quary.
Prowse (A. B.), An Index of References to- Dartmoor contained in the Devonshire Transactions, Vbls. I. to XXX. (Devonshire- Assoc. Trans., vol. xxxvii. pp. 482-567, Ply- mouth, 1905).
Adams (Maxwell), An Index to the- Printed Literature relating to the Antiquities, History, and Topography of Exeter (Devon- shire Assoc. for the Advancement of Science*. vol. xxxiii. pp. 270-308, Plymouth, 1901). An Index to- the Printed Literature re- lating to N. Devon (Devonshire Assoc., vol.. xxxiv. pp. 344-93, Plymouth, 1902).
Shaddick (H. G. H.), A Guide to the Reports, and Transactions of the Devonshire Associa- tion, First Series, Vbls. I.-XXX. Plymouth ,. Brendon & Son, 1909.
Historical Association (6, South Square* Gray's Inn, W.C.), Leaflet No. 9 (March, 1908). Contains a brief but useful Bibliography of Exeter.
Dorset There is Canon Mayo's book, to which MR. FRY refers. As the Bibliotheca Dorseti- ensis was issued in 1885, it now requires to be brought up to date.
Durham Thompson (Henry), A Reference Cata- logue of Books relating to the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, Part I. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1888.
Lapsley (G. T 1 .), The County Palatine of Durham (Harvard Historical Studies, viii.)- London, Longmans, 1900. The bibliography in this book, which occupies pp. 338-46, although not a parochial or county biblio- graphy, is a useful contribution to the- history, of the county in the Middle Ages.
Welford (R.), editor. Records of the Com- mittees for Compounding, &c., with Delin- quent Royalists in Durham and Northumber- land during the Civil War, 1643-60. Durham, Andrews & Co. (Surtees Society). Biblio- graphy, pp. 46D-61.
The Catalogue of the Library of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1896, and the Catalogue of the Free Library at Newcastle-on-Tyne are useful.
Cf. also Catalogue of Books on Genealogy and Heraldry in the Central Public Library, Newcastle-on-Tyne (by Basil Anderton). Essex Catalogue of Books, Maps, and Manu- scripts relating to or connected with the County of Essex, by A. E. Cunnington. Privately printed, 190'2.
