make it more
comprehensible?

C. W. B.

[The ellipsis appears to have varied according to circumstances: hence
we find, in an original petition addressed to the Privy Council
(apparently temp. Jac. I.), the concluding formula given at length
thus:--"And yo^r sup^{lt}, as in all dutie bounden, shall daylie pray
for your good L^{ps}." Another petition, presented to Charles I. at
Newark, A.D. 1641, closes thus: "And your petitioners will ever pray
for your Majesty's long and happy reign over us." Another, from the
Mayor and Aldermen of London, in the same year: "And the petitioners,
as in all duty bound, shall pray for your Majesty's most long and happy
reign." Again, in the same year, the petition of the Lay-Catholic
Recusants of England to the Commons closes thus: "And for so great a
charity your humble petitioners {597} shall ever (as in duty bound)
pray for your continual prosperity and eternal happiness." We do not
believe that any petition would be rendered informal by such addition
as would make it more comprehensible.]

_Bibliography._--I am about to publish a brochure entitled _Notes on Books:
with Hints to Readers, Authors, and Publishers_; and as I intend to give a
list of the most useful bibliographical works, I shall feel much obliged to
any one who will furnish me with a list of the various _Printers'
Grammars_, and of such works as the following: _The Author's Printing and
Publishing Assistant; comprising Explanations of the Process of Printing,
Preparation and Calculation of MSS., Paper, Type, Binding, Typographical
Marks, &c._ 12mo., Lond. 1840. I have met with Stower's _Printers'
Grammar_, London, 1808.

MARICONDA.

[The following Printers' Grammars may be advantageously consulted; 1.
Hansard's _Typographia; an Historical Sketch of the Origin and Progress
of the Art of Printing_, royal 8vo. 1825. 2. Johnson's _Typographia; or
the Printers' Instructor_, 2 vols. 8vo. 1824. 3. Savage's _Dictionary
of the Art of Printing_, 8vo. 1841, the most useful of this class of
works. 4. Timperley's _Dictionary of Printers and Printing_, royal 8vo.
1839. Stower also published _The Compositors' and Pressmen's Guide to
the Art of Printing_, royal 12mo. 1808; and _The Printer's Price Book_,
8vo. 1814.]

_Peter Francius and De Wilde._--In a little work on my shelf, with the
following title,

"Petri Francii specimen el