The Christie-Miller library contains many other books of extraordinary interest, among them three unique copies of works by Nicholas Breton: _A Smale Handfull of Fragrant Flowers, Selected and Gathered out of the Lovely Garden of Sacred Scripture_; _A Floorish upon Fancie_, _As Gallant a Glose upon so Triflinge a Text as ever was Written_; and _The Workes of a Young Wit Trust up with a Fardell of Prettie Fancies_. Robert Greene is represented by three unique copies, one of _Gwydonius_, and another of _Arbasto, The Anatomie of Fortune_; and the third of the earliest edition of _A Quip for an Upstart Courtier_, containing the passage, suppressed in all the later editions, in abuse of Gabriel Harvey and his brothers, which started the literary war between Greene and the pedant of Cambridge. * * * * * ITEMS FROM THE BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES It is possible, with a bundle of booksellers' catalogues, to waste more time more pleasantly than in any other way. As one idly turns the pages, catching sight here and there of a strange title or a book on some impossibly queer subject, one realises, more fully than one could do in years of social intercourse with one's fellow-men, how fantastic a thing is the human mind--a stable full of prancing hobby-horses for crochety horsemen to ride about the world. We can speculate pleasantly on the character of the practical parson who wrote the _Clergyman's Intelligencer; or, a Compleat Alphabetical List of all the Patrons in England and Wales, with the ... Benefices in their Gift and their Valuation Annexed_ (1745), for which Mr. Mayhew asks 5_s._ In the same catalogue is offered that curiosity in the history of science, P. H. Gosse's _Creation (Omphalus); an Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot_, published in 1857, two years before the _Origin of Species_. The title, _Ode to the Duke of Wellington and Other Poems, Written Between the Ages of Eleven and Thirteen Years_, by Robert Charles Dallas (1819), calls up visions of some tight-trousered infant prodigy; and we wish that the book were not an example of fine binding, and that Mr. Chaundy could part with it for less than 30_s._ Just above the infant, alphabetically and perhaps also in order of merit, we find the name of D'Adelsward, the author of a volume of poems (of which, in our ignorance, we had never heard) entitled _Les Cortèges Qui Sont Passés_. The volume, which was published in 1903, is bound in pink watered silk, and costs four guineas. We have a vision of something even more prodigious than the infant of 1819. * * * * *