_Authors and Publishers._--As "N. & Q." is, I believe, much read by booksellers as well as authors, would not both parties find great advantage by the latter advertising in your pages the completion and wished-for publication of any work on which they may have been engaged? Publishers, in this way, might hear of works which they would be glad to bring before the public, and authors be spared much unnecessary and often useless trouble and correspondence. Authors, I know, may feel some delicacy in coming before the world in this manner _before_ publication, although after that rubicon is passed, their names and productions are blazoned on the winds; but as a previous announcement in "N. & Q." may be made _anonymously_, as respects the name of the writer, although not of course as regards the nature of his work, there seems no just reason why honorable and beneficial arrangements may not be made in this way as well as by any other. To me this plan seems to offer some advantages, and I throw out the hint for the consideration of all whom it may concern.[2] ALPHA. [Footnote 2: [Any assistance which we can afford in carrying out this suggestion, which we may remark comes from one who has had practical experience on the subject, we shall be most happy to render.--ED.]] _Inscriptions on old Pulpits._--"N. & Q." has given many kinds of inscriptions, from those on Fonts and Door-heads down to those on Watch-papers; perhaps, therefore, it may not be without its use or interest to make a beginning for a list of inscriptions on old pulpits. The first inscription I quote is from Richard Baxter's pulpit, of which I have given a full description in Vol. v., p. 363.: 1. Kidderminster. Baxter's pulpit (now preserved in the vestry of the Unitarian Chapel). On the panels of the pulpit: "ALICE . DAWKX . WIDOW . GAVE . THIS." On the front of the preacher's desk: "PRAISE . THE . LORD." Round the sounding-board: "O . GIVE . THANKS . UNTO . THE . LORD . AND . CALL UPON . HIS . NAME . DECLARE . HIS . WORSHIP AMONG . THE . PEOPLE." At the back of the pulpit: "ANNO . 1621." 2. Suckley, Worcestershire; round the sounding-board (apparently of very old date): "BLESSED . ARE . THEY . THAT . HEAR . THE . WORDE . OF GOD . AND . KEEPE . IT." 3. Broadwas, Worcestershire; on the panels: "WILLIAM . NOXON . AND . ROGER . PRINCE . C . W . 1632." Round the sounding-board, the same text as at Suckley. CUTHBERT BEDE, B.A.