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Among reprints we may notice Geoffrey Chaucer's Treatise on the

Astrolabe. Edited by Andrew E. Brae. (J. R. Smith.)—The treatise was addressed by the poet to " lytel Lowys my sone," and is an interest- ing monument of the astronomical knowledge of the time ; and Bacon's Conference of Pleasure, edited by James Spedding, (Longmans), a speech delivered by the great philosopher on the occasion of some festivity, probably, as the learned editor is inclined to think, on the birthday of Queen Elizabeth in 1592.