mplete Works," 2 vols.;
"Inedited Tracts of the 16th and 17th Centuries
(1579-1618)"; "The English Drama and Stage under the Tudor
and Stuart Princes, 1543-1664"; "George Gascoigne's Complete
Poems," 2 vols.; "Thomas Carew's Poems."

_The Harleian Society_ was founded in 1869. Their chief
publication has been the late Colonel Chester's
magnificently edited Registers of Westminster Abbey. Other
Registers published are those of St. Peter's, Cornhill; St.
Dionis Backchurch; St. Mary Aldermary; St. Thomas the
Apostle; St. Michael, Cornhill; St. Antholin, Budge Lane;
and St. John the Baptist, on Wallbrook. Of the other
publications there are Visitations of Bedfordshire,
Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Devon, Essex,
Leicestershire, London 1568, 1633, Nottingham, Oxford,
Rutland, Somersetshire, Warwickshire, and Yorkshire, and Le
Neve's Catalogue of Knights.

_The Hunterian Club_ was founded at Glasgow in 1871, and
named after the Hunterian Library in the University. Among
the publications of the Club are a Series of Tracts by
Thomas Lodge and Samuel Rowlands; the Poetical Works of
Alexander Craig; Poetical Works of Patrick Hannay; Sir T.
Overburie's Vision by Richard Niccols, 1616. The printing of
the famous Bannatyne Manuscript, compiled by George
Bannatyne, 1568, was commenced by the Society in 1873, and
the seventh part, which completed this invaluable collection
of Scottish Poetry, was issued in 1881.

_The Folk Lore Society_ was founded by the late Mr. W.J.
Thoms (inventor of the term Folk Lore) in 1878, and during
the seven years of its existence it has done much valuable
work, chiefly through the energetic direction of Mr. G.L.
Gomme, the Hon. Sec. (now Director). The object of the
Society is stated to be "the preservation and publication of
Popular Traditions, Legendary Ballads, Local Proverbial
Sayings, Superstitions and Old Customs (British and
Foreign), and all subjects relating to them." The principal
publication of the Society, the _Folk Lore Record_, now the
_Folk Lore Journal_, was at first issued in volumes, and
afterwards in monthly numbers. It is now a quarterly. The
other publications are:--Henderson's Folk-Lore of the
Northern Counties of England and the Borders, a new edition;
Aubrey's Remaines of