At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend, C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisième, No. 33 Rue Dunôt, Faubourg St. Germain.

The booty taken was immense, comprising thousands of animals; the Sultan's valuable library of rare Arabic manuscripts; the military chest containing some millions of francs, and the chests of his caliphs and other high officers, filled with gold and silver coins and costly jewellery.

A very valuable musical manuscript, by Guillaume de Machault, who was valet de chambre to Phillippe-le-Bel, in 1307, has been discovered in the royal library at Paris.

As you were; a portable library of American prose and poetry assembled from members of the Armed Forces and the Merchant Marine.

In the catalogue of the imperial library of the Suy dynasty (A.D. 589-618), the name Fâ-hien occurs four times.

The Protestant Reformation in Germany was brought about by Luther's accidentally meeting, in a monastic library, with one of Gutenberg's printed Latin Bibles, when at the age of twenty.

The plan was communicated to Mr. Day, who entered into it eagerly; and an educational library seemed about to be prepared for the benefit of a far-away household in the heart of Ireland.

The meetings of the Fellows are held in the magnificent library, lined with 60,000 volumes, chiefly classics.

BOLLES, ALBERT S. Modern business commercial law library.

The spacious library was very cold and the end of a small log smouldered among the ashes in the grate.

Amongst these are numbered:a digest of the entire body of laws, even then become unwieldy and oppressive; the establishment of vast and comprehensive public libraries, Greek as well as Latin; the chastisement of Dacia (that needed a cow-hiding for insolence as much as Affghanistan from us in 1840); the conquest of Parthia; and the cutting a ship canal through the Isthmus of Corinth.

They went to great expense and built immense libraries.

What mean these scanty book-roomsmarine libraries as they entitle themif the sea were, as they would have us believe, a book "to read strange matter in?"

It was a splendid library of rare books, chiefly concerned with seventeenth-century writers, about whom he was a distinguished authority.

SEE Gustafson, A. F. HAMLIN, JESSICA W. Some European architectural libraries.

Southey gradually surrounded himself with one of the most extensive libraries in England, and set himself to the task of of writing something every working day.

JAMES W. The medieval library.

A metropolitan library in action.

Again, we must have special stereographic collections, just as we have professional and other special libraries.

The vacation of the university allowed him to stay at Paris but six weeks, which he employed with so much dexterity and industry, that he had searched the principal libraries, collated a great number of manuscripts and printed copies, and brought back a great treasure of curious observations.

We need a better scientific library.

They have not worked in the Bodleian, in the British Museum, or in other foreign libraries, on Old English texts and authorities.

Perhaps the ideal library, after all, is a small one, where the books are carefully selected and thoughtfully arranged in accordance with one central code of taste, and intended to be respectfully consulted at any moment by the master of their destinies.

Compare Cowper's humble home at Olney with Gibbon's elegant library at Lausanne,the social environment of Hallam, Grote, or Macaulay with the rustic isolation of Wordsworth, the economies of Shelley, or the life-struggle of Jerrold.

The cathedral library forms an upper storey to the E. cloister, and a corresponding chamber runs the length of the cloister opposite, now used as a choir practising room.