publications and maps of the Palestine Exploration Fund, the Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palæstina-Vereins, and the exquisite publications of the Société de l'Orient Latin, with all that has yet appeared (12 vols. folio) of the great French work Recueil des Historiens des Croisades, and the beautifully illustrated works of Mons. Renan on Phenicia, and the Duc de Luynes upon the Dead Sea, etc., etc. Perhaps also under this branch may most fitly be noted a large paper copy of Gesenius' Thesaurus Linguæ Hebrææ et Chaldææ, Leipsic, 1840, bound in two volumes folio, and Haji Khalfae's Lexicon of Arabic Authors, in 7 vols. 4to, published for the Oriental Translation Fund, Leipsic, 1835-58.

History is represented by fine copies of the works of Sir Arch. Alison, Dr. Arnold, Bishop Burnet, Carlyle, Clarendon, Cousin, Dyer, Freeman, Froude, Froissart, S. R. Gardiner, Gibbon, William Godwin, Grote, Guizot, Hallam, Lecky, Macaulay, Merivale, Milman, Motley, a complete set of Notes and Queries; Rushworth's Historical collections; the publications of the Camden Society; and many other books. Noble's House of Cromwell bears the bookplate of Edward Gibbon the historian, and O'Conner's State of Ireland is notable as containing the address to the Irish nation which was to have been the manifesto to the Pope in the event of the success of the Rebellion in the year 1797. A number of contemporary works on the life and reign of King Charles I. are worthy of special notice. One of them, "The Life and Reign of King Charles, or the Pseudo-Martyr Discovered," London, 1651, bears on the fly-leaf in one handwriting, " A damm'd libill made by a villaian who did eate ye K' Bread," and in another the answer, "a silly reflection made by a Blockhead who knew not the Happiness of our Constitution," no bad epitome of the spirit of each of the contending parties.

In Biography the list of names is long and important.

General biography contains such works as the "Biographie Generale," and the two editions of the "Biographia Britannia," while the individual biographies include such works as Masson's "Life of Milton" and the "Mémoires de Duc St. Simon," 20 volumes, besides many works of more moderate dimensions.

Casting our eye over the works relating to Art, we observe a proof copy of Roberts's Egypt, Nubia, and the Holy Land, in 6 volumes, imp. folio; beautiful copies of the Landscape Annuals, 10 volumes; Mrs. Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art; Legends of the Monastic Order; Legends of the Madonna; and the History of our Lord, as exemplified in works of art, etc.; Lodge's Portraits, 12 volumes, 4to, 1835; Viollet-leDuc's Dictionnaire Raissonnée de l'Architecture Francaise du XI. au XVI. siecle; The Vanity Fair Album; Paul Lacroix's fine works; Ruskin's Modern Painters, Stones of Venice, Seven Lamps, and some others of his works; William's Greece, and Turner's England and Wales and Southern Coast. Dr. M'Grigor's copy of the Modern Painters is one of the very few early copies in which plate 47 in Volume IV. is numbered 49 by mistake. The error was quickly discovered and corrected, and as a consequence uncorrected copies are scarce, and the impressions of the plates exceptionally valued.

A much-despised form of literature finds a place in Dr. M'Grigor's library. He has a great many blue-books. He has also many trials. Chief amongst them are Howell's collection of State Trials, 34 volumes; Causes Célebres et Intéressantes, 26 volumes; a number of pamphlets relating to the trial of James Stuart of Dunearn, and reports of some of the principal trials of the last hundred years.

The leading novelists are represented by complete sets of their works. Of Beckford's "Vathek" there is the first edition (1786), and Dr. Doran's copy of a reprint. There are first editions of most of Scott's,

Thackeray's, Dickens', Trollope's, and George Eliot's novels. There is also a copy of the Villon Society's "Thousand and One Night's Entertainment.'

Classics remind us most nearly of theology in the thoroughness of the selection. The editions are good whether early or modern, and are not limited to one. Of most of the ancient writers there are two, three, and sometimes half-a-dozen editions. Under Aeschylus there are ten entries in the catalogue, under Aristophanes five, under Catullus six, under Cicero ten, under Demosthenes two, under Euripides five, under Herodotus six, under Hesiod two, under Homer four, under Horace nine, under Juvenal four, under Livy five, under Lucretius three, under Plato seven, under Plautus two, under Sophocles five, under Tacitus six, under Thucydides three, under Virgil seven, under Xenophon eleven. There are also such accessories to a classical collection as Du Cange's "Glossarium Mediae et Infiniae Latinitatis," seven volumes, quarto, the "Facciolati Lexicon," Sophocles' Greek Lexicon of the Roman and Byzantine Periods, the Classical, Biographical, and Geographical Dictionaries of Dr. Smith, and the magnificent volumes of the Palaeographical Society, including both the general and oriental series.

Coming to the last of our divisions-Miscellaneous --we find yet many books to notice. Going over the catalogue we first come across a page and a half devoted to almanacks, some of which we noted under Glasgow, and the early ones of those remaining we now give :

1724. Almanack de Milan. Brussels.

1744. Rider's British Merlin. With MS. Notes by a Judge on Circuit. 1768. Edinburgh Almanack.

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1809. General Almanack of Scotland and British Register, Edin. 1810. 1812. Edinburgh Almanack and Imperial Register, Edin. 1813. General Almanack of Scotland and British Register, Edin.

Sixteen entries appear in the catalogue at Arnold (Matthew), fourteen appear at Helps (Arthur), eight at Hone (William), ten at Johnson (Samuel), nine at Mill (John Stuart), and under the names of Landor, Lockhart, Muller (Max), Swift, and Voltaire are entered the most important of their writings, and of the works about them. Bibliography is present in the well-known works of Allibone, Beloe, Brunet, Brydges, Burton, Lowndes, and Watt; in the "Retrospective Review," and in the catalogues of the Advocates' Library in Edinburgh, and the Royal Institution and London Libraries. Dr. M'Grigor has sets of some magazines, including the "Edinburgh Review," and has also a most extensive collection of pamphlets. They number close on 800, and are bound in 69 volumes. The subjects of these books in miniature are very various. Two volumes relate to the Holy Sepulchre, several volumes are of a political character, some are ecclesiastical, one concerns the establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England, two or three are on the Sabbath question, a number relate to the movements in which Frederick Denison Maurice took part, some are legal, some statistical, and many local. The whole of their titles are printed in the catalogue and occupy sixty-three pages.

This brings us to the end of our survey of this very important and valuable library.

CHAPTER XX.

LIBRARY OF THOMAS ADAM MATHIESON, ESQ., GROSVENOR

TERRACE.

Mr. Mathieson's connection with Hutchesons' HospitalGeneral remarks on his Library-Ruskin-PoetryScottish Books-Glasgow Books-Strang's Progress of Glasgow Glasgow Looking-Glass-Herald to the Trades' Advocate-Wynd Church Case-Interesting and amusing Pamphlets-Conclusion.

MR. MATHIESON is well known as a former prominent member of the Town Council of Glasgow, where he sat as one of the representatives of the third ward during six terms of office-1866 to 1884. He was made River Bailie in 1868, a Magistrate in 1870, and in 1878 elected to the office of Preceptor of Hutchesons' Hospital, an educational charity founded in 1641 by two Glasgow writers, George and Thomas Hutcheson, brothers.

During Mr. Mathieson's tenure of office the noble volume in which Mr. William Henry Hill, the muchesteemed clerk to the institution, has told its history so admirably, was published. It is dedicated to Mr. Mathieson, who took much interest in its compilation. Several books have been written about the Hospital, in the course of the two hundred and forty-two years of its existence, but none with the fulness and ability characteristic of Mr. Hill's, which, in respect to historical accuracy and comprehensiveness, as well as material bulk, eclipses all its predecessors. It must therefore be a circumstance of much pleasure to Mr. Mathieson that his name is inseparably associated