"William Caxton, born in that town [sc. Caxton!]. He had most of his _education_ beyond the seas, living 30 years in the court of Margaret dutchesse of Burgundy, sister to king Edward the Fourth, whence I conclude him an Anti-Lancastrian in his affection."--Thomas FULLER, 1662. "William Caxton--was a menial servant, for thirty years together, to Margaret dutchess of Burgundy, sister to our king Edward IV., in Flanders."--William NICOLSON, 1714. "Gulielmus Caxton natus in sylvestri regione Cantiae; in Flandria, Brabantia, Hollandia, Zelandia xxx annis cum domina Margareta, Burgundiae ducissa, regis Edwardi IV. sorore vixit."--Thomas TANNERUS, 1748. Now, according to Fabian, Stow, and others, Margaret of York was married to Charles duke of Burgundy in 1468; and if Caxton did not return to England about the year 1471, as Stow asserts, he was certainly established at Westminster in 1477. The _thirty_ years of the learned writers must therefore be reduced to less than _ten_ years! The discrepancy between these writers, on another important point, is not less remarkable than their agreement in error, as above-described. Pits says Caxton flourished in 1483; Fuller, that he died in 1486; and Tanner, that he _flourished_ about 1483, and _died_ in 1491. Shakspere died in 1616: in what year did he flourish? BOLTON CORNEY. Minor Notes. _A Hint to Catalogue Makers._--Among the many excellent schemes proposed for the arrangement and diffusion of common means of information, one simple one appears to have been passed over by your many and excellent correspondents. I will briefly illustrate an existing deficiency by an example. While collecting materials for a projected critical commentary on the _Timæus_ of Plato, I was surprised to find the commentary of _Chalcidius_ wholly wanting in our library at Christ Church. Subsequently (when I did not want it, having secured a better edition at the end of Fabricius' _Hippolytus_) I discovered a fine copy of Badius Ascensius' editio princeps, bound up with Aulus Gellius and Macrobius, but utterly ignored in the Christ Church catalogue. This instance shows the necessity of carefully examining the _insides_ of books, as well as the backs and title-pages, during the operation of cataloguing. Our public libraries are rich in instances of a similar oversight, and many an important and _recherché_ work is unknown, or acquires a conventional rarity, through its concealment at the end of a less valuable, but more bulky, treatise. I have been aroused to the propriety of publishing this suggestion, by purchasing, "dog cheap", a volume labelled _Petrus Crinitus_, but containing _Hegesippus_ (_i.e._ the pseudo-Ambrosian translation from Josephus) and the Latin grammarians at the end, all by the afore-mentioned printer. THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY.