_French Book-Plates._ A Handbook for Ex-Libris Collectors. By Walter Hamilton, Hon. Treas. of the Ex-Libris Society. With numerous fac-similes. London: George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1892. _Catalogue des Incunables de la Bibliothèque Publique de Besançon._ Par Auguste Castan, Conservateur de la Bibliothèque de Besançon. Publication Posthume faite sous les auspices de la Société d’Emulation du Doubs. Besançon, J. Dodivers, Grande Rue, 1893. Mons. Castan was born in 1833; he died in June, 1892. _La Bibliothèque de Fontainebleau_ et les Livres des Derniers Valois à la Bibliothèque Nationale. (1515-1589.) Par Ernest Quentin-Bauchart. Paris, Em. Paul et Guillemin. _Les Relieurs Français_ (_1500-1800_). Biographie critique et anecdotique. Précedée de l’Histoire de la Communauté des Relieurs et Doreurs de Livres de la Ville de Paris et d’une étude sur les styles de reliure. Par Ernest Thoinan. Paris, Em. Paul et Guillemin. This useful work on the subject of bookbinding gives biographical details of more than 1,700 French binders, with their signatures and notices of their principal works. The armorial stamps on French bindings are frequently of great assistance in identifying nameless plates. _Archives de la Société Française des Collectionneurs d’Ex-Libris._ Paris, Emile Paul et Guillemin, Rue des Bons-Enfants. (In progress.) The organ of the French Society of Collectors of Book-plates. The first part was published in December, 1893, and it has appeared monthly ever since. Many illustrations of great beauty and interest have been issued with the _Archives_, but specially printed on plate paper. _Ex-Libris Ana, et Ex-Libris Imaginaires_ et supposés de Personnages célébres, anciens et modernes. Paris, L. Joly, Editeur, 19, Quai Saint-Michel, 1893-1894. This little publication contained some valuable historical articles and reproductions of old plates. The Ex-Libris Imaginaires were grimly humorous and satirical, especially those of Rabelais, La Fontaine, Rollin, Marat, Danton, E. A. Poe, Dumas fils, Charcot, and Ernest Renan. _Les Bibliophiles Rémois_ leurs ex-libris et fers de reliure suivis de ceux de la Bibliothèque de Reims. Ouvrage illustré de 70 gravures. Par Henri Jadart Conservateur adjoint de la Bibliothèque de Reims Secretaire général de l’Académie. Reims F. Michaud, Rue du Cadran-Saint-Pierre. 1894. This work is extracted from the proceedings of the Académie de Reims, and only 150 copies were printed. It contains biographical notices of the principal book collectors of Reims, and its vicinity, with their armorial bearings, descriptions of their book-plates, and the stamps on their bindings. It also gives an alphabetical collection of mottoes with the families to whom they belong, and a bibliography of the Catalogues Rémois.