ographical Catalogue of Privately Printed
Books was published in 1854, and a newer work on this
important subject is much required. Mr. W.P. Courtney has
been engaged in the production of such a work for some
years, and the labour could not be in better hands.

_Proverbs._--The _Bibliographie Paremiologique_ of Pierre
Alexandre Gratet-Duplessis (1847), is one of the most
elaborate and carefully compiled bibliographies ever
published. Sir William Stirling Maxwell printed privately a
catalogue of his collection of books of proverbs, in which
were specially marked those unknown to Duplessis, or those
published since the issue of his catalogue.

_Science._--An article on the Scientific Libraries in the
United States was contributed by Dr. Theodore Gill to the
U.S. Report on Public Libraries (pp. 183-217). It contains
an account of the various periodical records of work in the
various departments of science.

_Shorthand._--Thomas Anderson's History of Shorthand, London
(1882), contains Lists of Writers on Shorthand in different
languages.

_Theology._--There is an article on Theological Libraries in
the United States, in the U.S. Report on Public Libraries
(pp. 127-160). The following extract contains some
particulars respecting these.--"There are reported
twenty-four libraries, which contain from 10,000 to 34,000
volumes; and these twenty-four libraries belong to ten
different denominations. Three Baptist, two Catholic, two
Congregational, three Episcopal, one Lutheran, two
Methodist, seven Presbyterian, one Reformed (Dutch), one
Reformed (German), and two Unitarian. And, if we include
those libraries which contain less than 10,000 volumes, the
list of different denominations to which they belong is
extended to fifteen or sixteen."

A considerable number of Bibliographies of Theology will be
found in the British Museum Hand-list. Darling's Cyclopaedia
Bibliographica (1854-59), Malcom's Theological Index
(Boston, 1868), and Zuchold's Bibliotheca Theologica
(Goettingen, 1864), may be specially mentioned.

_Topography._--Gough's British Topography (2 vols. 4to.
1780) is an interesting and useful book, and Upcott's
Bibliographical Account of the principal works relating to
British Topography, 3 vols. 8vo. (1818), for