27 MAY 1922, Page 23

The Stationery Office has just published a new edition—the ninth—of

Sir Henry Maxwell Lyte's Catalogue of Manuscripts and Other Objects in the fascinating but none too well-known Museum of the Public Record Office (ls. 6d. net). This edition includes a description of the case added during the War which contains the " Scrap of Paper "—the European Treaty of 1839 guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium, with the dishonoured Prussian signature on it—as well as the new Shakespeare auto- graph and other items of interest.