Birrell delivered "An Address" on Browning "At the Browning Hall Settlement, Walworth" on December 12, 1897, beginning by saying, "To meet together to do honour to the memory and extol the genius of a great poet is so becoming, so proper, and so seemly a thing to do that it need neither apology or explanation." The entire address can be read in Birrell's Essays and Addresses (1901).      Harry Buxton Forman (1842-1917), author and editor of a number of works on English literature, favored a rhyming bookplate picturing a man writing with a quill pen in a study dominated by a bust of 1901).        We have eight books with the modest bookplate or signature of Arthur Noel Latimer Munby (1913-1974), bibliographer par excellence and one-time librarian of King's College, Cambridge, England, the chapel of which appears on the bookplate. We have a number of books written or edited by him. Another writer with Cambridge links, one of whose books we have (with

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