edies, so entitled. See Bright's Catalogue, No.

1393.

Secondly. Of works which furnished Incidents, Passages, or Allusions, the titles are briefly given. The Tragedie of Solimon and Perseda, London, 1599, 4to. ridiculed in King John. Vincentio Saviolo his Practise, London, 1595, 4to. alluded to in As You Like It. A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, &c. by Bishop Harsnet, London, 1603, 4to. names of the Spirits in Lear. R. Mulcaster, Positions, &c. London, 1581, 4to. and The first Part of the Elementarie, &c. London, 1582, 4to. Mulcaster is supposed to be the Holophernes of Love's Labour's Lost. Sir Thomas Elyot, Knt. The Boke named the Governour. London, 1553, 16mo. The Commitment of Henry V. when Prince of Wales, first told here. William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, The Monarchicke Tragedies, and other works, London, 1604-7, 4to. In the tragedy of Darius, 1604, is a passage which bears a remarkable resemblance to one in the Tempest. Giles Fletcher, Of the Russe Common Wealth, London, 1591, 8vo. Expressions in Hamlet and Macbeth.

Thirdly, works to which Shakespeare, in common with the other elder Dramatists, was indebted, and which have all been referred to by the several commentators. Sir Geoffrey Fenton, Certaine Tragicall

Discourses written out of Frenche and Latin, London, 1567, 4to.; A Petite Palace of Pettie his Pleas ure, London, 1613, 4to.; Reginald Scot, The Discovery of Witchcraft, London, 1584, 4to. Pierre de la Primaudaye, Académie Françoise, Paris, 1579, 8vo.; Peter de la Primaudaye, The French Academie, London, 1586, 4to. The first edition. Abraham Fraunce, The Lawiers Logike, London, 1588, 4to.; Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique, London, by John Kingston, 1562, 4to.; P. de Loier, A Treatise of Specters or Straunge Sights, Visions and Apparitions, London, 1605, 4to.; Isaaci Wake, Rex Platonicus, Oxon., 1607, 4to.; Admirable and memorable Histories, by I. (it should be Simon) Goulart; out of French into English, by Ed. Grimestone, London, 1607, 4to. First vol. No more appeared. Batman uppon Bartholome his Booke de Proprietatibus Rerum, &c. London, by Thomas East, folio.

Some early editions and many reprints have been passed; besides which there is a large collection of Autograph Letters of Authors, Editors, Translators, and others, whose names could be properly associated with the collection.

THE REV. DR. BETHUNE'S LIBRARY.

THE impression upon entering Dr. Bethune's library is, that it belongs to a hard-working and rather careless student, whose attention is occupied more with the interior than the exterior of his books, and that he is therefore regardless of their appearance. Its rough board bindings, often broken, show more handling than care; and the confused heaps on table, chairs and floor, a necessity for present use, and possibly a disinclination to spend time in restoring them to their appropriate places at once. excuse for the condition of his books is, that a clergyman has too many demands made upon his means to allow of his spending money for mere ornament; and that the cost of binding one old volume would buy a new one, and the insides of the two would be worth more than one, however handsomely bound. He is waiting for the return of the Golden Age to dress his library handsomely.

His

The collection has been made so gradually, that its possessor, who purchased from time to time

works desirable in his professional studies, or to gratify tastes that relieved his mind from the strain of severer pursuits, had no idea of its extent, and could not believe, until convinced by the actual enumeration we made of it, that it numbers more than six thousand volumes.

Its chief strength, as might be expected, lies in its theological department, which contains nearly all the standard divines of the early and Protestant Churches, and also of the Roman Catholic writers, particularly those on systematic and polemical theology. Among these are St. Thomas Aquinas, Sanchez, and others, down to Archbishop Kenrick, the present learned and able primate of that Church in this country. It is well supplied with religious systems, books of casuistry and ethics, ecclesiastical polity, both ancient and modern, together with the works of the most noted of the infidel writers, and the answers to them. The writings of the Fathers are far from being complete, though there are good editions of Theophylact, Gregory Nazianzen, St. Ambrose "the glorious bishop of Milan," St. Augustine, &c., which are held in high esteem by Dr. Bethune. Among the English divines are Wycliffe, "the morning-star of the Reformation," Tyndale, Latimer, Hopkins (Bishop), Sanderson, Skelton; Samuel Clark, South, Hale, Parr, and all the most

distinguished of the Established and Dissenting Churches, down to the present day. There is, also, a most curious collection of occasional sermons of the 17th and 18th centuries, in twenty-three thick octavo volumes, some of which were preached in America, and are illustrative of American history. Near them are several shelves of Continental theologians, Cath. olic and Protestant, in various languages. Many of them, particularly among the French, are rare and valuable, as the elder Du Moulin, and others of the Charenton school, and their opponents; the Huguenot exiles in Holland, as Superville, Saurin, the Basnages, &c.

The Heidelberg Catechism, being the special standard of the Dutch Church, which its ministers are peremptorily required to expound to their people, has naturally received a large share of Dr. Bethune's attention; and he has spared no pains in collecting many histories, controversial tracts and expositions, seizing eagerly upon every volume illustrative of its text, he can lay his hands on. The department De Re Heidelbergiensi is already large, though far short of being complete, but the Doctor is using every exertion to make it so. Of those acquired some are extremely rare; and prominent among these is the treatise of L'Enfant, vindicating the purity of the Catechism against the attacks