_Tobacconists_ (Vol. ii, p. 393.).--There was, in the old house of commons, a room called the _smoking-room_, where members tired of the debate used to retire to smoke, and in later years to drink tea or write letters. These, no doubt, were meant by the _Tobacconists_, members within call, though not actually within the house. C. _Vineyards_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--In answer to CLERICUS, I beg to say that there is a piece of land called the Vineyards situated in the warm and sheltered valley of Claverton, about two miles from Bath: it formerly belonged to the Abbey of Bath. There is also in the suburbs, on the north side of the city of Bath, a _street_ called the Vineyards; but I do not know that this ever belonged to the Abbey. G. FALKNER. Devizes. * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. Those who know Mr. Craik's happy tact for seizing on the more striking points of a character or an incident, his acquaintance with our national history and biography, his love of research, and perseverance in following up a clue, were prepared to expect both instruction and amusement from his _Romance of the Peerage_. Nor were they doomed to disappointment. Each succeeding volume has added to the interest of the work and there can be little doubt, that the favour with which the first three volumes have been received by the reading world, will be extended to the one now published, and which concludes the first series, or main division of Mr. Craik's projected work. Our space will permit us to do little more than specify its principal contents; but when we state that in the present volume Mr. Craik treats of the _great_ Earl of Cork and the Boyles; of the founders of the Fermor, Bouverie, Osborne, and Bamfylde families; that he gives us with great completeness the history of Anne Clifford, the most remarkable woman of her time; that he furnishes pleasant gossipping pictures of the rise of the families of Fox, Phips, and Petty; the history of the celebrated claim of the Trunkmaker to the honours of the Percies,--of the story of the heiress of the Percies who married Tom Thynn of Longleat Hall; and lastly, that of Ann of Buccleugh, {415} the widow of the unfortunate Monmouth, we shall have done more than enough to make our readers wish to share the pleasure we have derived from turning over Mr. Craik's amusing pages. Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will sell on Monday next, and two following days, a valuable collection of books, chiefly the property of a gentleman deceased, among which we may specify _la Vie Saint Germain L'Auxerrois_ (lettres gotheques), printed on vellum, and quite unique; no other copy even on paper being known.