wait upon his mightiness, the against non-subscribers; tha tion above to petition the ho ther urged. But we know 1 teous overtures to cajole a doubtful service; and as soc them; and that, I am confic affair is done to his desires

"However, I like him Absalom, than when he is counting the devil far more He was at this time fellow of Emmanuel. T Dillingham had been di to imply that Sancroft

"Sir,-If I must not be miserable in the fami of corns rallying into an blade, (which yet I can for a more intolerable I letters into words, run fortune not to find you wine: I wish we may

"You must excuse after I discovered my the College, as other have been discoursed the world, abortive e tain their own name I may no more speal dependent in the St perhaps others will all desire to the Un cheerfully embraced

"I had no desir ready up to the nec I owe what I am ab curse it when it nee "Sir, my service who so often took no "July 17, 1651.

二

"Martin Bucer, Scriptores Anglicani ;" i. e. Martini ripta Anglicana.

t serious disqualification for the work he has undertaken e fear, in Mr. Botfield's want of acquaintance with many of ects with which a writer of notices on Cathedral Libraries specially to be conversant. We cannot otherwise account summary dismissal of portions-perhaps the most important Cathedral Library, with such remarks as these.

1). CARLISLE. "The principal feature of this library is theoponderous folios of obsolete divinity in dark, unlettered nd smaller controversial treatises, now deservedly forgotten, ying a large space upon these dusty shelves."

51. "To the above may be added, the Homilies of the Venerable the works of Andrews and Baxter, with the Preservative against ry, and other treatises of the like nature too insignificant for 1."

o at Rochester, p. 391 :

Among the printed books is a considerable quantity of obsolete

inity, and some English as well as foreign works, which have servedly fallen into oblivion."

So at Wells, p. 422:

"Thirteen pages of the catalogue are occupied by tracts on the

'opish Controversy, four by the subject of Toleration, and three by hat of Transubstantiation."

At Durham, p. 95:

"On viewing the literary remains of polemical controversy, and the dust-covered rows of obsolete divinity, one is tempted involuntarily to exclaim,

"Hi motus animorum atque hæc certamina tanta
Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescant.'

The writer could scarcely be aware that the tomes on which he jests are in very many instances memorials which will live at the Last Day; that they are offerings of devotion, self-sacrifice, and love, made by men of the greatest genius, the most profound erudition, and the subtlest intellects, to the cause of religious and moral truth.

Again at Durham, p. 93. A great part of this, as of most ancient libraries, consists of Glosses, Decretals, and Pandects, with other early and almost forgotten Works of Divinity, and the obscurer authors of the middle ages. Passing by these, I first directed my attention to the earliest impression of the Scriptures in the English language, &c."

. How much more service might Mr. Botfield have done by giving an exact catalogue of these works-those we mean of the writers of

All these points Mr. Botfield does, indeed, occasionally notice; but his remarks seem to be a kind of gossiping observation, just of such things as met the eye, without aim or reflection-without considering the value or the practical use which might be made of what he observed. The passage from Prince Puckler Muskau, at p. 502, and from the Sketch Book of Washington Irving, at p. 430, are more pointed and more interesting.

The most grave charge against the writer, however, is, we think, the carelessness with which the work is written and published: we do not know how long it is since the early sheets were struck off, or whether the author was aware of the occurrences of the last few years; but so it is, that at page 3, after an account of the sad havoc made in the Bristol Library by the rioters of 1831 (a havoc such that only three sets of books were preserved entire) we read :

"It is well known that the library of the present Dean of Bristol, Dr. Beke, who has now nearly reached the span of human life, is most valuable and extensive, and were such a collection to be appropriated to the Cathedral, then would the Bristol Cathedral Library rise again, Phoenix like, from the flames: and the venerable donor of so munificent a bequest, would, by all true Bibliopolists (?) be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.'

"

This is a strange way of commemorating a departed benefactor to a Cathedral Library; but at all events the hint is unhappily sent out too late, as Dr. Beke has been dead several years. But of this Mr. Botfield does not seem to have been aware.

Again, there is much to complain of in the way of typographical inaccuracy-a grave fault in a bibliographical work, seeing that the whole question of the value of a copy may depend on the presence or absence of a letter. In p. 3, we meet with "de re militare.” P. 63, "Sylacis Periphis Caryandensis" [Scylacis Periplus ;] and the punctuation of the catalogue of the Exeter MSS., pp. 133, sqq. is very incorrect. P. 420, "Calasio Concordantiæ Hebrææ;" "Patavii Opera Theologica, Paris. 1550," (long before Petavius was born.) P. 421, "Of Ecclesiastical History, the principal works which I noticed were the Constitutiones Legatina; Regionis Anglicana; Scripture Atlas, 1812; Othonis et Othoboni, cum annotationibus Joannis de Athona." Mr. Botfield could not, it would seem, make out his own note-book, and so by the insertion of semicolons and the Scripture Atlas, he has divided into three works the title of the Legatine Constitutions of Otho and Othobon.

At Westminster, p. 436, "Among the earlier Theological writers," after Episcopius, who of course is here, comes Gregorius Eusebius, Byzantinus Nazianzenus, et Nyssenus, &c.

P. 439. "Martin Bucer, Scriptores Anglicani;" i. e. Martini Buceri Scripta Anglicana.

A most serious disqualification for the work he has undertaken exists, we fear, in Mr. Botfield's want of acquaintance with many of the subjects with which a writer of notices on Cathedral Libraries ought especially to be conversant. We cannot otherwise account for the summary dismissal of portions-perhaps the most important -of a Cathedral Library, with such remarks as these.

P. 50. CARLISLE. "The principal feature of this library is theological, ponderous folios of obsolete divinity in dark, unlettered calf, and smaller controversial treatises, now deservedly forgotten, occupying a large space upon these dusty shelves."

P. 51. "To the above may be added, the Homilies of the Venerable Bede, the works of Andrews and Baxter, with the Preservative against Popery, and other treatises of the like nature too insignificant for detail."

So at Rochester, p. 391:

Among the printed books is a considerable quantity of obsolete Divinity, and some English as well as foreign works, which have deservedly fallen into oblivion."

So at Wells, p. 422:

"Thirteen pages of the catalogue are occupied by tracts on the Popish Controversy, four by the subject of Toleration, and three by that of Transubstantiation."

At Durham, p. 95:

On viewing the literary remains of polemical controversy, and the dust-covered rows of obsolete divinity, one is tempted involuntarily to exclaim,

"Hi motus animorum atque hæc certamina tanta
Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescant."

The writer could scarcely be aware that the tomes on which he jests are in very many instances memorials which will live at the Last Day; that they are offerings of devotion, self-sacrifice, and love, made by men of the greatest genius, the most profound erudition, and the subtlest intellects, to the cause of religious and moral truth.

Again at Durham, p. 93. A great part of this, as of most ancient libraries, consists of Glosses, Decretals, and Pandects, with other early and almost forgotten Works of Divinity, and the obscurer authors of the middle ages. Passing by these, I first directed my attention to the earliest impression of the Scriptures in the English language, &c."

How much more service might Mr. Botfield have done by giving an exact catalogue of these works-those we mean of the writers of

the middle ages, the school Divines and the Canonists-than by a long list of books which one may see anywhere. A similar disappointment awaits the collector of the tracts of the age of the Rebellion, and we may add the historians of that period; for these in page 527, are summarily dismissed as "the scum thrown up by the troubled waters of the English mind during the Great Rebellion."

Mr. Botfield does not seem to be aware that it is among these heaps of what he thinks rubbish that the rarest treasures are sometimes to be found; and that to enumerate them would be of much greater service than making lists of authors whom one would be sure to find in almost any library.

To pass to another evidence of this fault, in the account of the Lambeth Library, p. 217, we read

The best editions of the Works of the Fathers of the Church form a prominent feature in this collection, including those of SS. Ambrose, Athanasius, Augustine, Basil, [see next paragraph,] Bernard.... Epiphanius, Episcopius, Eusebius . . . . Origen, Philo Judæus, Theophylact, &c."

Then follows:

Among the multitudinous Works of the earlier Divines, the authors most deserving of mention appear to be, Anselm, S. Barnabas, Basilius Magnus, [as though a different person from the Basil of the last party,] Bellarmine, Theodore Beza, Thomas Aquinas. . . . Calvin, Cassiodorus, Camerarius, Clemens Romanus, Alexandrinus . . . . Lactantius, Ludovicus Vives Maimonides," [as if one person gloried in these three names, or Maimonides was an early Divine,"] &c.

So at Peterborough, p. 371 :

'Among the Works of Divinity in this Collection, those of the Fathers of the Church lay first claim to our notice. These are the works of SS. Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius, Bernard, Chrysostom, &c. .. .. Among the earlier theologians we may mention the works of Anselm, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Bucer, Bullinger, Calvin, Bellarmine, Theodore Beza, Le Clerc, Erasmus, Gregory Nazianzen, Thomas à Kempis and Pope Gregory of Grotius, Luther, Melancthon, Peter Martyr, Origen, Socinus, Philo Judæus, Lanctantius, Wolfius, and Zanchius, to which may be added Arminii opera Theologica and Bulli opera Omnia.”

Bp. Bull more than once occurs among fathers and schoolmen, and Bp. Pearson once at least, because they Latinized themselves and their writings, as Pearsoni Vindicia and Bulli opera.

So p. 439:

"Lyndewoode's Provinciale. . . . Outram de Sacrificiis," (fl. circ. A.D. 1700,)" and other works of the earlier Ecclesiastics, &c."