sier et autres)_, Paris, 1659, with a morocco binding of the
seventeenth century, ornamented with _fleurs-de-lis_, fetched fourteen
thousand francs; La Fontaine's _Fables Choisies_, five volumes, Paris,
1678, 1679 and 1694, bound by Boyet, eleven thousand nine hundred and
fifty francs; _Les Fais de Jason_, par Raoul Le Febvre, printed at Lyons
about 1480, seven thousand six hundred francs; _Le Livre appelle
Mandeville_, Lyon, 1480, six thousand two hundred and fifty francs; _Les
OEuvres de Guillaume Coquillant_, Paris, 1532, five thousand four
hundred and fifty francs; and _Les OEuvres de Moliere_, eight volumes,
Paris, 1739, with additional plates, five thousand francs. Among the
books at the English sales the exceptionally fine and large copies of
the _Tewrdannck_, Nuremberg, 1517, and the Aldine _Poliphili
Hypnerotomachia_, sold respectively for two hundred and fifty pounds and
one hundred and thirty-seven pounds; a copy of _Paesi Novamente
Retrovati_, Vicentia, 1507, with the title in facsimile, for one hundred
and eighty-six pounds; and Shakespeare's _Poems_, 1640, for one hundred
and six pounds. The first folio of Shakespeare Mr. Turner sold privately
to an American collector. A Grolier binding realised three thousand
francs; another binding with the devices of Diana of Poitiers, four
thousand four hundred francs; a book from the library of Longepierre,
two thousand five hundred francs; two sets of volumes with _doublures_
by Boyet, respectively four thousand francs and three thousand nine
hundred francs; and Rogers's _Italy and Poems_, with beautiful bindings
by Bedford, sixty-one pounds.

Mr. Turner was an accomplished linguist, and he possessed a wide and
accurate knowledge of the literary history and bibliography of France,
Italy and Spain. He was also a collector of rare and beautiful bindings
before the interest and value of these works of art were generally
appreciated.

FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON, 1821-1895

[Illustration: MR. LOCKER LAMPSON.]

Mr. Frederick Locker, the author of _London Lyrics_ and other volumes of
delightful light and social verse, was born in 1821. His father was Mr.
E.H. Locker, a Civil Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital, and founder of
the Naval Gallery there. For some years Mr. Locker was Precis Writer in
the Admiralty. He was twice married: first in 1850 to Lady Charlotte
Christian, a daughter of the seventh Earl of Elgin, and secondly in 1874
to Hannah Jane, a daughter of