An interesting Glasgow pamphlet is "A Sermon Preached at the Opening of the Synod of Glasgow and Air, at Glasgow, 9th October, 1792, by William Dunn, A.M., Minister of Kirkintilloch. Glasgow: Printed for and sold by Brash & Reid, 1792." The author in an advertisement says: "It is now offered to the public and dedicated to the friends of the Constitution in Church and State and of the people, that such as have thought proper to approve of it may be more satisfied that their approbation was not altogether misapplied; and those of different principles may be convinced that their censures were not well founded. The publication and dedication of the sermon led to the author being tried and sentenced to imprisonment in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh for three months. Mr. Dunn was a good and worthy man, much beloved in his parish, and his memory has scarcely yet died out. His requiem was sung by a local poet, Wm. Muir of Campsie, whose poems were published in Glasgow in 1818, and are of much merit and little known. A volume of considerable local interest is the first Police Act for Glasgow, 1800 In this copy the names of the first Commissioners are written in, and a map is inserted showing the division of the city into wards. Mr. Macdonald has the numerous works of Dr. James Cleland on Glasgow, and also the spirited confutations of Mrs. Agnes Baird. These latter, of which Mr. Macdonald has a complete set, are extremely scarce. Mr. Macdonald has devoted some attention to the collection of Glasgow periodicals. The following is a list of those in his possession dating before 1854:— 1750-1 Gillies' Exhortations to the Inhabitants of the South Parish of Glasgow. 2 vols. 1770-2,3 The Glasgow Magazine, one number issued in 1770; continued in 1772 as the Glasgow Universal Magazine, 1772-3. 1783 Glasgow Magazine. 1795 Poetry, Original and Se- 1795 The Culler. 1804 The Theatrical Register. 1805 The Selector. 4 vols. The copy of The Chameleon, 1833, is of more than ordinary interest because of a letter attached, written by Thomas Atkinson, the editor-about the last letter he wrote. Of a kindred interest is the catalogue of the sale of his furniture at his house, 11 Miller Street, and the preface to an intended work, to be called The Legacy. This preface was suppressed. Atkinson was a well-known Glasgow bookseller and wrote largely, both in poetry and prose. Daniel Macmillan, the founder of the well-known London publishing house of that name, was apprentice with him for some time. Of somewhat peculiar interest is a pamphlet on Spiritualism, written by Sir James Bain, Lord Provost of Glasgow 1874-7. It was issued privately in 1864, and the author afterwards thought fit to withdraw it. Among the curiosities of the Glasgow division are the little books for children issued in Glasgow by the Lumsdens and other firms. The earliest is entitled The History of Master Jackey and Miss Harriot, to which is added a few maxims for the improvement of the mind, dedicated to the good children of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; Glasgow, J. and M. Robertson and J. Duncan, 1785. It consists of thirty-one pages, and is embellished with 24 cuts. As showing the pabulum provided for children in these days, and that illustrated books for children are not a nineteenth century idea altogether, we subjoin a list of books published by Messrs. Robertson & Duncan, copied from the last page of Master Jackey. Some works of a miscellaneous character yet remain to be noticed. Increase Mather's Kometographia; or, a Discourse concerning Comets, Boston, 1683, is an early specimen of New England printing. The art was introduced into Boston in 1676. A Counterblaste to Tobacco, by King James, imprinted at London by R. B., 1604; a perfect copy of the first edition. It consists of thirteen leaves. It is very seldom seen now, and Mr. Arber had recource to a copy in the Bodleian Library when he reprinted the work. Rules of Good Deportment or of Good Breeding, by Adam Petrie, Edinburgh, 1720; the first edition, now very rare. The work was reprinted in 1835, with a preface by Lord Dundrennan; 45 copies printed. Another curious work by the same author, and bearing a similar title, is Rules of Good Deportment for Church Officers, Edinburgh, 1730. Scot's Fencing Master, by Sir William Hope, Edinburgh, 1687; the first edition. Monteath's Theatre of Mortality, 1704-13; the first edition, contains the scarce star leaves. A volume of broadsides and proclamations of a most remarkable description has recently been added to Mr. Macdonald's library. It begins with the murder of Archbishop Sharp, and continues to 1696. It contains the latest proclamations of James II. of England, and the earliest issued by William and Mary. A number of them relate to Covenanters, and one of them, printed three days after the event, gives an account of the taking of Argyle at Inchinnan Bridge. As we said at the commencement, this library is essentially a Scottish one, and we think our birds'-eye view will bear out our statement. But it is not to be supposed that it is entirely Scottish. The presence of important works chiefly relating to Scotland decided us to give attention to them in preference to other works, of perhaps greater value, but of less interest. These have occupied us so long as to leave only room to mention that the library also contains first editions of most of the works of Dickens and Thackeray, and the best editions of many other standard authors. CHAPTER XVIII. LIBRARY OF BERNARD B. MACGEORGE, ESQ., A Library of Fine Art and First Editions-Fine Collection of Blake's Works-Original Letter and Poem by Blake, never before printed-Extensive and fine Collection of the Works of John Ruskin-Magnificent Collection of Etchings by Méryon-Other Fine Art Books-First Editions-Byron, Moore's copy of the rare volume of Poems, 1807; Lines on the Birth of a Son to Mr. Hoppner-Shelley, Beckford on Queen Mab-Keats-Tennyson-Collier's Works and Reprints-Gray's Elegy-Scott-Rogers, Amusing Notes on Human Life, by Beckford-Boccaccio's Decameron-Swift, Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels— Defoe, Robinson Crusoe-Johnson-GoldsmithVathek-Lamb-Dickens-ThackerayUndine, illustrated by Thackeray-Scottish BooksGlasgow Books-Album containing Letters by Dickens, Dumas, and Reade-Poems in autographs of Longfellow and Swinburne-Conclusion. Beckford's THIS is a handsome library. All the books are in superb condition, beautifully bound and many enriched with valuable additions, rendering them unique. Were we inclined to be alliterative we would say that it is a library of fine art and first editions. Standard works in other branches of knowledge than art, and in other than first editions, are of course in the library, but high above every other these two features stand prominent. We need make no apology for devoting most of our space to what are the characteristics of the |