and Tullius 'De Amicitia,' both imperfect, in one volume, L60. We can only briefly allude here to some of the more important collections which have been sold in London during the past six years. In the majority of instances they were the possession of deceased individuals, who for the most part lived out of London. In February, 1889, the Hopetoun House Library, the property of the Right Hon. the Earl of Hopetoun, was sold at Sotheby's, 1,263 lots realizing L6,117 6s., the most important items in the sale being a copy of the Gutenberg-Fust Latin Bible, 1450-55, L2,000, and the _editio princeps_ Virgil, 1469, L590. The library of Mr. John Mansfield Mackenzie, of Edinburgh, sold at the same place in the following March (2,368 lots = L7,072), was one of the most important collections dispersed in recent years; it was especially rich in first editions of modern writers, in _curious_ books, and in literature relating to the drama; it included an exceedingly extensive series of Cruikshankiana, many of which realized prices which have not since been maintained. The most important lots in the sale of a selection from the library of the Duke of Buccleuch, at Sotheby's, March 25-27, 1889, were five Caxtons, viz.: 'Dictes and Sayengis of the Philosophirs,' 1477, first edition, L650; 'The Chronicles of England,' first edition, 1480, L470; the same, second edition, 1482, L45; Higden's 'Descripcion of Britayne,' 1480, L195; and the 'Royal Book, or Book for a King' (? 1487), L365. [Illustration: _Hollingbury Copse, the Residence of the late Mr. Halliwell-Phillipps._]