This fact is not stated on the title-page to the play, but in a list of works printed for the same stationer, placed at the end of Heath's 'New Book of Loyal Martyrs'

"As for the letter from Brighton, it was absolutely commonplace, and written upon note-paper which the detective, with Machiavellian cunning, traced to a stationer's shop in West Street.

The whole neighborhood has an air of mystery and a scent like a stationer's shop.

THE STATIONER.

THE STATIONER TO THE READERS.

'The present fashion of photographs staring out of every stationer's window makes a man's face public property,' he told Mary.

Ere these confederates parted, however, two letters had to be written in a stationer's shop.

It was written purposely on a scrap of paper from which the stationer's name and the water-mark had been carefully torn off.

The stationer, fitting shelves in his back shop, was a man of observation and some eccentricity.

Not while brown paper is to be obtained at every stationer's; I'd sooner smoke my own wig.

" At a summons to his shop one day, Mr. Snagsby, the law-stationer (in whose employ the dead man was, and who has always been kind to Jo when chance has thrown him in his way), descends to find a police constable holding a ragged boy by the arm.

His father was Michael Johnson, a bookseller and stationer, and his mother, Sarah Ford.

After serving an apprenticeship to a stationer, he entered a printing office as compositor and corrector of the press.

In 1719 Richardson, whose career throughout was that of the industrious apprentice, took up his freedom, and began business as printer and stationer in Salisbury Court, London.

Besides, many of the poet's relations were engaged in trade; and the alliance of his brothers-in-law, the tobacconist and stationer, if it was then formed, could not sound dignified in the ears of a Howard.

In a prose postscript to this book Wither tells us that the title, The Shepherd's Hunting, which he seems to feel needs explanation, is due to the stationer, or, as we should say now, to the publisher.

The hall was crowded with students carrying books, bags, and boxes of instruments, students standing and chattering, students reading the framed and glazed notices of the Debating Society, students buying note-books, pencils, rubber, or drawing pins from the privileged stationer.

And nightly in the Students' "club" he wrote a letter addressed to a stationer's shop in Clapham, but that she did not see.

When I went to Harrow, in 1868, there was an old woman, by name Polly Arnold, still keeping a stationer's shop in the town, who had sold cribs to Byron when he was a Harrow boy; and Byron's fag, a funny old gentleman in a brown wigcalled Baron Heathwas a standing dish on our school Speech-Day.

"And a dairyman with FAMILIES UP LIE , and a stationer's with LUE LACK INK.

He also gave me some money to pay one or two small bills that were owing to some of the tradespeoplea milk-man, a baker and a stationer.

"Got a little stationer's shop in the town; steady, old-fashioned business.

This was the 'right' of the stationer to his 'copy.'

The stationer, if terms were arrived at, carried off the manuscript to his Company and registered the title in the books, and thereupon became, in his opinion, and in that of his Company, the owner, at common law, in perpetuity of his 'copy.'

Elegant printed forms, some of them printed in gold or silver, are to be had at every stationer's by those who prefer them.