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Facsimiles of Royal, Historical, and Literary Autographs, 1 - 30, (British Museum.)—These

thirty facsimiles cover a wide range of times and persons. From Catharine of Arragon they come down to Browning, and suggest a curious variety of interests. Here are some of the names :—Cranmer, Edward VI., Queen Elizabeth, Charles I., Monmouth, William III., George III., Pitt, Earl of Chatham, George Washington, Horatio Nelson, Keats, Thackeray. The handwriting is, on the whole, wonderfully good, and the literary division is, perhaps, the best.