We were fortunate in recently securing a very fine copy of _Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes of the Right Honourable Fulke Lord Brooke, written in his Youth and familiar Exercise with Sir Philip Sidney_, Henry Seyle, 1633. It is high time that a new edition of these very interesting and, by moments, very great poems was published. Grosart's reprint is faulty and is, furthermore, practically unprocurable. As a matter of fact a new edition was, we understand, in process of being prepared by a very able young scholar of Christ Church, when the war broke out and the would-be editor was unhappily killed. Mr. Rose had, we believe, made considerable researches and had even discovered a certain amount of new material, but he had not committed the results of his labours to paper; so that the possible new edition of Greville has perished with him. If the rest of Greville's works could be edited as well as his Life of Sidney has been by Mr. Nowell Smith we should be very well pleased. But the prospect of getting any new edition at all seems now extremely unlikely. RECENT ADDITIONS TO LIBRARIES Some early printed books of considerable interest have recently been added to the Library of the British Museum, among them a copy of Sannazaro's _Arcadia_, Venice, 1502, in a contemporary binding of boards covered with designs printed from woodblocks. _Terentius: Comediæ cum interpretatione Donati_, Baptista de Tortis, Venice, 1482. _Elegantiolae_, by Augustinus Datus, produced at Verona by an unidentified printer in 1483. _Ptolemaeus, Liber quadripartit_, Ratdolt, Venice, 1484. Maurice de Sully, Bishop of Paris: _Les exposicions des euungilles en romant_, Antoine Neyret, Chambéry, 1484. (Only four fully authenticated incunabula of Chambéry are known, of which this is the earliest and rarest. It is printed in large Gothic type and adorned with woodcuts. The Museum possesses specimens of the second, third, and fourth Chambéry books, and this is a perfect copy of the first.) _Jo: Balbus Januensis_: Catholicon, Jean du Pré, Lyon, 1492. Several examples of early Spanish printing have also been presented, as well as two first editions of Swinburne, _Laus Veneris_, Moxon, 1866, and _Dolores_, Hotten, 1867, with "The Devil's Duel: a letter to the editor of _The Examiner_," an attack on Robert Buchanan, written by Swinburne under the pseudonym of Thomas Maitland, and printed for private circulation in 1875. ITEMS FROM THE BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES