The late Rev. W. E. Buckley, M.A., formerly Fellow and Tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford, and late Rector of Middleton-Cheney, Banbury, and vice-president of the Roxburghe Club, was a veritable Heber in a small way. Besides the enormous quantity of books sold in two portions (twenty-two days in all) in February, 1893, and April, 1894, several vanloads were disposed of locally, as not being worth the cost of carriage to London. His library must have comprised nearly 100,000 volumes, of which only a small proportion had any commercial importance. He managed, however, in his long career, to pick up a few bargains, notably the Columbus 'Letter' ('Epistola Christofori Colom.,' four leaves, 1493, with which was bound up Vespucci, 'Mundus novus Albericus Vesputius,' etc., 1503, also four leaves), which cost him less than L5, and which realized L315; he also possessed a first edition of Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield,' 1766, L39 10s.; Keats's 'Poems,' first edition, 1817, in the original boards, L23 10s.; Fielding's 'Tom Jones,' 1749, first edition, uncut, in the original boards, L69. The two portions of the Buckley library sold at Sotheby's realized L9,420 9s. 6d. The smallest, as well as the choicest, library sold in 1894 (June 11) comprised the most select books from the collection of Mr. Birket Foster, the distinguished artist. The first, second, third, and fourth folio Shakespeares sold for L255, L56, L130, and L25 respectively; the quarto editions of the great dramatist included 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' 1600, large copy, L122; 'Merchant of Venice,' 1600, L146; 'King Lear,' 1608, L100. Mr. Foster also possessed John Milton's copy of 'Lycophronis Alexandra,' which realized L90; an incomplete copy of Caxton's 'Myrrour of the World,' 1491, L77. The valuable and interesting dramatic and miscellaneous library of the late Frederick Burgess, of the Moore and Burgess minstrels, was sold at Sotheby's, in May-June, 1894, and included many choice editions of modern authors.