ceum has a library of several hundred vols. The university has no library fund. An annual appropriation is made for this object of $200 to $250. No catalogue has been recently published. Prof. J. W. Lindsay, librarian. Rev. Samuel F. Jarvis, D. D. LL. D. of Middletown, has one of the most valuable private libraries in the United States, amounting to about 10,000 vols. It is particularly rich in editions of the Fathers of the Greek and Latin church, in the Byzantine historians, and in works on modern church history.

LIBRARIES IN Hartford, Conn.

Library of Trinity College, together with lib. of Students, 11,000 vols. Connecticut Historical Society, 7,000

Y. Men's Institute (in the Wadsworth Atheneum), 9,400 Of the library belonging to the Historical Society, about 5000 vols. belong to the venerable librarian, Rev. Thomas Robbins, D. D. This includes the most valuable part, comprehending many folios. It has a considerable number of works, printed in the fifteenth century, some of special value. It has the first journal which, it is thought, was published in the French language, in 380 vols. There are 430 vols. of bound pamphlets, containing from twelve to fourteen in each volume, with copious indexes. There is also a large number of unbound pamphlets and newspapers, including a complete set of the Connecticut Courant, a weekly newspaper published in Hartford from 1764, still in progress, and which is said to be the oldest in the United States, except the Newport (R. I.) Mercury.

In the Wadsworth Athenaeum is a collection of 150 paintings, some of them of special value.

LIBRARIES OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE.

College Library,

6,343 vols.

Societies of Students (Philologian 2416, Philotechnian 2150) 4,566
Mills Theol. Society 400, Nat. Hist. Soc. 125

525

10,434

The college possesses no fund for its increase, except what is charged for the use of it.

The college library possesses the series of vols. (charters, rolls, etc.)

given a few years since by the British government.

It has also some

valuable books purchased in Europe by the late Professor Hovey. An effort is now making, which we trust will be fully successful, greatly to enlarge this library. Prof. E. S. Snell, librarian.

1,300

Library of North. Academy of Arts and Sciences, about

21,400

The college library has two copies of Eliot's Indian Bible. One is perfect except the title-page of the Old Testament. At the end is a versification of the Psalms, as far as to the 4th verse of the 137th. The library has also some fine folio editions of the Fathers, Athanasius, Eusebius, etc.; Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus, Montfaucon's Antiquities, and Palæographie, Vossius, Hippocrates, Cerda's Virgil, etc. The library possesses 17 portraits. Of these there are, a full-length portrait of the Earl of Dartmouth, (a copy of the original by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and a donation of the present earl); of Daniel Webster; Jeremiah Smith; Jeremiah Mason; Francis Hopkinson; a full-length portrait of Eleazar Wheelock, the first president of the college; of John Phillips (of Exeter, also full-length); of Samuel Appleton; Charles Marsh, etc. Prof. Charles B.Hadduck, librarian. The libraries of the two College Societies are well selected, and contain very valuable works both for reference and miscellaneous reading. Both possess some costly illustrated works. Among the portraits are one of Prof. Chamberlain, Pres. Brown, Prof. Adams, etc. The Northern Academy has 800 unbound vols., of pamphlets, etc., partially arranged; also 700 unbound vols. of newspapers. This collection also contains some valuable private papers, among which are a meteorological journal kept by Mr. John Farmer, of Concord, N. H., from 1813 to 1830, Gov. Bartlet's Correspondence from 1774 to 1794, etc.

It is expected that valuable additions will soon be made to the college li

brary.

LIBRARIES IN THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT, BURLINGTON.

Library of the University of Vermont,
Library of three Coll. Societies (2000; 2000; 1250),

10,000 vols.
5,250

15,250 There are two small funds for the support of the university library, amounting to $1250. This library, though not among the largest, is among the best selected in New England. Somewhat less than two thirds of the books are in the English language. The collections of Greek and Latin authors are nearly complete, and of the best editions. Among the valuable and comparatively rare, might be mentioned Stuart's Athens, 3 vols. fol.; Visconti's Iconographie, 5 vols. quarto, and 2 vols. fol. of plates; Montfaucon's Antiquit expliquée and Palæographie; Catesby's Carolina, 2 vols. fol.; Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, in about 60 vols. quarto; Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, 50 vols. quarto; Hansard's State Trials, several vols. in fol.; Cuvier et Valenciennes Hist. naturelle des Poissons, with the colored plates, some 15 vols. quarto. Among the single volumes, not often to be met with, are Fuller's Church History of England, fol.; Baxter's Life, by himself, fol.; John Scotus de Divisione Naturæ, fol., etc.

The books of the Hon. George P. Marsh, minister of the United States at Constantinople, amounting to between 3000 and 4000 vols., are deposited in this library. Nearly all these works are in foreign languages, principally in the Spanish and Scandinavian. There are, however, some very rare books in the English language.

Libraries of two College Societies, Bowd. Coll. (5000; 4000) 9,000

Library of the Theological Society in Bowd. Coll.

Bowdoin College has no fund specifically devoted to the purchase of
books. An annual appropriation of $200 is made from the college funds
for that purpose.
The two Students' libraries are increased annually
each by about 200 vols. The Medical Library contains a remarkably
good collection of books. The college library has been lately removed to

a fine apartment, and arranged in systematic order. Waterville college has a subscription of $10,000 in process of collection for the purchase of books and philosophical apparatus.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Whole No. of books in the New England Libraries, in our last No., 256,200

Some general remarks on the subject of libraries we are compelled to postpone till another opportunity.

ARTICLE XI.

MISCELLANIES, THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY.

A NEW edition of Dr. Kühner's School or Middle Grammar of the Greek Language is about to be published by the Messrs. Appleton of New York. A very large edition has been sold within a few years. There are numerous references to it in most of the editions of the Greek. classics published within four or five years in this country. In the recent commentaries on the New Testament published in Germany, e. g. Meyer, the grammatical works of Kühner are largely referred to. In England too they are winning much favor, notwithstanding the rigid adherence of English scholars to long-established methods and text-books. We stated in our last No. p. 203, that an edition of Menzies' translation of Tholuck's Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, was about to be printed in Andover. Since that time, it has been concluded to have the work translated anew from the third and last edition. The Edinburgh version was made from the first German edition. The work in its present form has many and decided improvements over the first edition. It is in the process of translation by Mr. E. Robie, Hebrew Instructor in the Seminary, and Mr. J. B. Bittinger, Principal of the Female Academy, Andover.

The edition of the Works of Horace, by Prof. Lincoln of Brown University, is passing through the press. We have seen a copy of the Odes, which has a remarkably fair appearance, and very a kindly look for the eyes. The type is large and very distinct. The various readings, at the bottom of the page, are a valuable feature, and new in American editions of Horace. The book will contain illustrations by neat outline cuts of various objects, e. g. lyra, tibia, etc. There will be full notes, illustrating Roman literature, life, etc., a Life of Horace, account of the Metres, chronological tables, copious indices, etc. Prof. Lincoln has enjoyed excellent facilities for the preparation of this work by study in Germany, a residence in Rome, etc. The "Greek Prose Composition" of Prof. Boies of Brown University, is a carefully prepared book, and a valuable addition to our helps for classical study. Prof. Stuart's Commentary on Daniel is passing rapidly through the press in Andover. It will be in one vol. 8vo. and published by Crocker & Brewster of Boston.— The 2d vol. of Dr. Woods's Works has been published, and another is now in the press. A new Life of Martin Luther, especially of the earlier portion, by Dr. Sears, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, is soon to be published in Philadelphia and London.

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Sir James Stephens has been appointed professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, England, in the place of Mr. Smyth deceased.

Among the recent publications in Germany, are the following:- A 3d ed. of Julius Müller's Treatise on the Doctrine of Sin, pp. 1218; 3d of Harless' Christian Ethics, pp. 331; 2d of Hagenbach's Church History of the 18th and 19th centuries, pp. 475; Exegetical and Critical" Ahrenlese zum Alten Test." by Dr. F. Böttcher, pp. 112; The Epistle to the Philippians vindicated against Baur, a theological prize essay by Brückner of Leipsic, pp. 93; Life of F. Perthes of Hamburg, by his son C. T. Perthes, professor of law at Bonn, Vol. I. pp. 368 (Perthes was the eminent bookseller, born at Rudolstadt, Apr. 21, 1772); Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum ex materia collecta ab A. Böckh, ed. J. Franz, 2d fascic. Vol. III. part 29 inscrip. Aegyp., part 30 inscrip. Aethiop. super Aegyp., part 31 insc. Cyrena., part 32 insc. Sicil. cum Melita et Lipara, pp. 387, (said to be more interesting than the preceding); Das Buch Job übersetzt u. erklärt von Dr. B. Welte, Freiberg, 1849, pp. 424; Corpus Refor matorum ed Bretschneider, Vol. XV. of the Works of Phil. Melanchthon, pp. 698; Opera Horatii for Schools, by Henry Düntzer, in 1 vol., author of the Kritik u. Erklärung of the Horatian poetry, in 5 vols.; a Practical Commentary on the Epistle of James, by Dr. Neander; the 1stvol. of the Church History of Jacobi, a pupil of Neander, said to be characterized by a very exact style and scientific precision."

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