Sir Walter Scott's small and neat handwriting—with few eorrections—may be seen ab the British Museum. In the sale-room some of Ins beautiful manuscripts sometimes appear, and in 1919 we saw the 243 original leaves of "Quentin Durward" bring £700 at Sotheby's, states the Daily Telegraph." On November 21, in the same rooms, Mr. J. H. Stevenson, ko. will offer the 214 pages of the original manuscript (written on one side only) of the novel, "Red Gauntlet," published in 1824 by Robert Cabell, Mr. Stevenson's grandfather, to whom Sir Walter presented it on April 9, 1831. This is the story which contains "Wandering Willie's Tale," considered to be one of Scott's masterpieces. Ruskin used to declare that every word of it -"is as natural as the best of Burns, with a grandeur in its main scene equal to Dante." A long list of R. L. Stevenson's early editions ill also be offered to eager coilectors. Other features of an important sale will be a hitherto unknown 1521 edition of Wynsyu de Worde's "Golden Legende.' a set. of 169 board-sides, 1600—1624, including a proclamation prohibiting "Interloping and Disorderly "Tyading to England 40 America'; a rare French illuminated manuscript with S paintings. 1390-1400, known as The Mende Pontifical," and a unique copy of the Cambridge Bible of 1637, specially prepared and bound by the University star tioners. There is also te he a Second Folio, 1632, of Snakespeare's Plays.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.