BY JAMES SAVAGE, OF THE LONDON INSTITUTION. VOL. II. Quisquis hujusmodi operis sategerit, ei non tantum multum tædii & la- DEC2 9'2 The second volume of the "Librarian" being completed, the Editor, in taking a review of its contents, has the satisfaction to find that he has been enabled to give a condensed but faithful Analysis of the contents of some of the principal and most scarce Literary Works in our language. In the Account of Sandford's Genealogical History of England, the Reader will find numerous references respecting the Figures of Tombs, &c. engraved in that work, to books of more recent date, which he hopes will afford that sort of information so necessary to be obtained relating to the correct representation of those subjects. The account of Enderbie's History of Wales, from the remarkable scarcity of the book, cannot fail of claiming attention from a great part of his Readers, and in the same Number, the Life and History of St. Werburge, will not escape the observation of the curious Bibliographer. The Anecdotes of the Tradescants, who may be ranked among the greatest of the early English Botanists, though not new, will yet acquire some interest, because they bring into one focus all that is known concerning that family. In the account of Holbein's Heads, published by Mr. Chamberlaine, he has carefully given the principal features of the Biographical Sketches annexed to each head, several of which will be found to produce a great variety of information and entertainment. Of the Itinerarium Curiosum of Dr. Stukeley, a work of great learning, and now of considerable scarcity, he 277084 21 |