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Sketches of Some Booksellers of the Time of Dr. Janson.

By E. Marston. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co. 5s. net.)—Mr. Mar- ston naturally begins with Michael, father of Samuel. After him we hear of Thomas Davies ; Osborne (whom Johnson knocked down with a folio, " Biblia Greece Septuaginta." was the actual volume); Lintot, the "dull rogue" of one of Pope's "Epistles,"—the poet and he quarrelled about the translation of Homer ; and Dodsley. These narratives are followed by kindred matter, an account of two literary, or itiasi-literary, societies. Then we return to the booksellers, Evans, Nichols, Bowyer, and Cape, the most famous perhaps of all. This is a most readable volume.