1483; Roberti Holkot, Super Sapientiam Salomonis, Spire, 1483; Laurentii Bonincontrii Miniatensis Commentarius in L. Maniliam, Rome, 1484; S. Hieronymi Vita S. S. Patrum, 1485; Biblia Sacra, with commentaries by De Lyrd, first of five volumes, and therefore incomplete, 1485 (supposed); Gulielmi Miniatensis Episcopi, Rationale Divin, Officionen, Argentina (Strasburg), 1486; Sermones Pomerii de Themesvax, 1489; Pomerii Sermonum, De Sanctis, 2 vols., 1489; Expositio Hymnorum (Hymns of the Breviary), quaint woodcut for titlepage, Haguenau, 1493; Lactantii Opera, Venice, 1493; S. Augustini de Doctrina Christiana, Basle, 1493; the 15 books of Euclid, geometrical figures printed in margin, Bologna, 1494; Bothius de Disciplina Scholarium, Strasburg, 1494; Nicolai de Polonia, Sermones, Strasburg, 1495; Liber Dialogorum Sanctii Gregorii Papa, Basle, 1496; Expositio Beati Gregorii Papa Super Cantica Canticorum, Basle, 1496; Epistoke Enea Silvii, Nuremburg, 1496; Sermones Sancti Bonaventura, Haguenau, 1496; Mariale Bernardini de Bustis, Strasburg, 1496; Malleus Mallificarum, Nuremburg, 1496; Nicholas de Lyra's Commentaries on Scripture, six volumes, Basle, 1498; Opera Agricolationum Coturnelle, etc., "Scrip. R. R. Regium," on back, 1498; Rosella Casuum, Baptista Provamalæ, Venice, 1499. Making thirtyseven volumes printed prior to 1500. In many the capitals are put in by hand, in red or blue colors. some the leading initials are elaborate. A few are in the original binding. Of works printed between 1500 and 1599, including both those years, there are two hundred and sixty-eight volumes, perhaps more. Of English books in black letter, there are only three, a Catholic prayer-book of the reign of Queen Mary; The Primer in Latin and Englishe, London, 1555; Stow's Survay of London, 1618; and The Miserere

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Explained, without title-page or date. There are a number of other books, curious for their subjects or their execution, or on account of the associations connected with them, for instance, works on magic and emblems, Pyne's Horace, two volumes, each page a copper-plate, published by subscription in 1737 for fifty pounds; a small missal used by Archbishop Carroll on his missions, an old German Bible once belonging to a Lutheran minister in Western Virginia, that had been buried during an invasion by Indians, etc.

The department of Bibles and commentaries contains copies of the Scriptures, or of portions of them, in many languages. Walton's great work, and other polyglots, Calmet's, Carriere's, Genonde's, Rondet's, Martini's, Buthier's, and De Sacy's Bibles, each in numerous volumes, Luther's and Calvin's Bibles, Cardinal Mai's Codex Vaticanus, in five large quartos, Tischendorf's Codex Frederico-Augustanus, Latin Vulgates, of all styles, English Bibles, Catholic and Protestant; editions of the former from that of Douay, 1610, to the latest splendid New York quarto, commentaries, concordances, Bible controversies, Bible histories, lexicons, etc. Among the curious books of this department is Schenzeri's Physica Sacra, six vols., in Dutch, Amsterdam, 1735, and profusely illustrated.

The department of ecclesiastical history contains works by many authors, from Eusebius down. The more voluminous sets are those of Natalis Alexander, Orsi, Becchetti, Fleury, Berrault, Bercastel, Tillemont, and Stolberg. Of histories covering shorter periods there is the Histoire de l'Eglise Gallicane, in many volumes, Pallavicini's, and other histories of the Council of Trent, a set of the Lettres Edifiantes et Curioses, publications of the French Society of the Propagation of the Faith. In ecclesiastical antiquities, Josephus in several lan

guages and editions, Griffith, Lingard, Nardi, Marchi, and others. Also, histories and accounts of religious orders; the ecclesiastical annals of Baronius and his continuators, in numerous folios, and an elegant modern work in several volumes, the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland.

In theology, besides St. Thomas Aquinas, and his commentators, a series of works that make a small library in themselves; there are the works of Petavius, Sanchez, Layman, Lacroix, Gardie, Charmes, Sardagna, Liuori, Perrone, Antoine, Collet, Billuart, Kenrick, and many other writers on dogma and moral, besides the complete works of Albertus Magnus, 21 folios, Suarez, A. Lapide, Benedict XIV, Bossuet, Fenelon, Stattler, Ghorel, Ferrari, Segueri, De Maistre, Gother, Bonald, England, Gretsen (17 folios), etc. So far as some of these works are miscellaneous in character, they occupy a place apart, with the Catholic encyclopedias, such as Morbré's, the Abbé Glaire's Encyclopedie Catholique, in 21 volumes, etc. Non-Catholic writers on religion, Luther, Calvin, Lardner, Leibnitz, Hooker, Hall, Wilson, Swedenborg, and others, have a compartment to themselves.

In civil history, among the folios, are Rymer's Fœdera, 17 vols., Thuani Hist. Sui Temporis, 7 vols., American Archives, 8 vols. Books of less dimension are Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes, 8 vols., Revolution Française, 38 vols., Mariana, Historia de España, 13 vols, Muratori, Annali d'Italia, 16 vols., Pennsylvania Colonial Records, 16 vols., and eleven more of Pennsylvania Archives, the series of American Diplomatic Correspondence, Charlevoix's New France, 6 vols., Rapin, 10 vols., Euvres de Rollin, 60 vols., Lingard, 8 vols., and a French History of France, in many volumes, a voluminous English publication on Ancient History, followed by Modern, and

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an equally extensive work on Universal History, a collection of works on Chronology, etc. place is kept a small collection of histories of cities, including five folio volumes Histoire de Paris, Maitland's London, 2 folios, etc.

The collection of Catholic sermons is very extensive, embracing works in English, French, Latin, Italian, and German. The more voluminous are Bourdaloue, Massillon, Brydane, De la Columbière, Bossuet, Fenelon, L'Enfant, Vieira, Oliva, and Le Jeune. There are also several copies of the Bibliothèque des Predicateurs, in which every subject of a sermon is illustrated by quotations from Scripture, the Fathers, etc. A collection of portable editions of the works of the Fathers, chiefly sermons, is kept apart from the above. The folio editions of the Fathers are also together in another place; embracing the numerous volumes of the Bibliotheca Patrum (not complete), St. John Chrysostom, 13 vols., St. Augustin, 7 vols., and the other Fathers and Doctors of the Church.

The other department of religious works are, first, religious biography, including the vast work of the Bollandists, begun in 1643, and still in course of completion, the Oratorian Lives of the Saints, as well as Butler's well-known work, lives of devout persons not canonized, biographies of ecclesiastics, a collection of martyrologies, lives of the Popes, by several authors, and the curious works of Tanner, describing the labors and martyrdoms of the Jesuits; secondly, controversial works by Catholic authors, from the ponderous tomes of Bellarmine to the pamphlet of a few pages, and including many on each of the shifting controversies of the last three centuries; thirdly, works by Catholic authors against deism, infidelity, etc.; fourthly, catechetical works, from those in numerous volumes, by Gaume, Duclos, Pouget, Grenada, Charancy, Anonims, Segneri, and

others, to the handbooks for popular use; fifthly, ascetical works, or books of piety, embracing collections of meditations by many authors, and some in numerous volumes, the devotional writings of Luis de Grenada, Jean d'Avila, St. Theresa, St. Augustin, Drexel, Bellecius, Rodriguez, Da Porte, Bourdaloue, Fenelon, St. Francis de Sales, Drusbick, Challoner, St. Jure, Gother, Faber, Houet, Segneri, and countless others, a collection of works on spiritual retreats, a large number of editions of Thomas-a-Kempis in various languages, another of special devotions, prayer-books, etc.; sixthly, Catholic periodicals, including the earlier issues of American Catholic weeklies, L'Ami de la Religion for a long series of years, the Civilta Catholica, Dublin Review, Brownson's United States Catholic Magazine, Catholic World, Acta Sancta Sedis, etc.; seventhly, a collection of works for the use of pastors, the nature of which may be gathered from a few titles taken at random: Instruction Pastorale, Methode des Parvisses, Miroir du Clergé, Devoirs de Ecclesiastiques, Manuale Ordinandorum, etc.; eighthly, works on canon law and councils, viz.: Labbei, Collectio Conciliorum, 47 folios; the Bullarium Romanum, Le Concile Ecumenique du Vatican, 8 splendid folios recently issued, works by Benedict XIV, Gratian, Zamboni, Reiffeustuel, Scwar, Pichler, Pignatelli, etc.; ninthly, liturgical works, such as Decreta Cong. Sacr. Rituum, explanatory works on ritual, Picart's seven curious volumes on the Religious Ceremonies of all Nations, graduals, rituals, antiphonals, ceremonials, processionals, vesperals, pontificals, etc.

The collection of works on antiquities and the fine arts is deserving of special mention, embracing as it does some rare and costly works, such as the Muses Florentino, 10 folio vols., Kingsborough's Mexican Antiquities, 8 folios, the Cathedrale du Bourges, Hogarth, and other

works of the like dimensions and importance. Ledoux's Architectural History and Antiquities of Westminster Abbey, works on the monuments and edifices of ancient and modern Rome, Pisa, and other cities, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Italia, 6 folios, Monde Primitif, 9 vols., two works of Marcelli on epigraphs, 9 vols., Jones's Dissertations, 7 vols., works of Visconti, 15 vols., besides those of Muraton, Winckleman, Hope, Layard, Lawsi, Baldinucci, Milizia, and others.

The series of publications by learned societies embraces the Journal de Luxembourg, 1774 to 1794, 67 vols., the Acta Eruditorum, 1682 to 1767, filling three long shelves, the Memoirs de Trevoux, 1701 to 1775, filling eight shelves of similar length, the Bulletin de Bruxelles, Memoirs de l'Academie Royale, Smithsonian publications, etc. these are to be added other scientific publications, issued annually or oftener.

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The collection of mathematical works is extensive, though many of them belong to a past order. Those on the sciences are interesting and valuable, and care is taken to keep up with the demands of the day. Zoology, geology, mineralogy, botany, conchology, ornithology, etc., are represented by works of repute, Wilson's and Audubon's smaller work being among the latter.

Voluminous editions of Buffon and other French writers are to be found in this collection. Of English encyclopedias, there are the Iconographic, Perthensis, Edinburgh, Rees's, Encycl. Britannica, Appleton's, etc. In English literature the main library is indifferently furnished, but a valuable and extensive collection constantly being added to, fills the shelves of the director of studies. The library of travels and description is not as extensive as would be required in a collection resorted to by the public, but is ample enough for this place, con

tains many handsomely illustrated works, some that are rare, such as Kircher's China, Cook's Voyages, first edition, ancient atlases, and a number of other books that were famous in their day. In general biography the collection is respectable, and embraces at least works that are indispensable. The classical library contains the best editions, many of them uniform, and includes Stephens's Thesaurus, 10 folios, and other valuable lexicons. French, Italian, and Spanish literature have each a separate department. A voluminous Encyclopedie Française is among the former, and Autores Españoles, 65 quartos, among the latter. The philosophical works include the ancient and modern writers on intellectual philosophy, and of all schools; together with them are Brucker and other histories of philosophy. Among the bound volumes of British and American magazines is a set of Ackerman's Repository, with its curious and elegant plates of former female fashions. Histories of the Society of Jesus, pamphlets and books written against them or in defence of them, etc., have been found so numerous that a special collection has been made of these works in a case appertaining to the president's apartments. There

are other collections of books which must be passed over for want of time to give them attention. Reference might be made, however, to the specimens in the library of books or tracts in the Penobscot, Micmac, Pottawatomie, and Cherokee Indian languages, and in Chinese, Japanese, Javanese, Hindostanee, modern Sanscrit, Tamul, Dyak, Syriac, Armenian, Turkish, Polish, Russian, Sclavonian, Basque, Breton, Irish, and Welsh.

The library is always accessible to visitors. It is, however, probably little known, and consequently seldom consulted by strangers. Perhaps it is not desirable that it should be greatly resorted to, considering the disjointed condition of its collections. A very spacious apartment, with shelves conveniently arranged and well lighted, such a room as we hope may be constructed within a few years, will alone make it a pleasure for visitors to spend much time in it. Books are never loaned outside the college. Students may visit the library to consult authorities, but they rarely have occasion to do so, as their own society libraries are well supplied with standard works, to which access can be had by them at any moment.

MEN have had strange fancies about earth's beautiful satellite. They have worshipped it as a goddess, sung of it as the birthplace of dreams, honored it as the abiding-place of beneficent spirits empowered to visit earth to aid good men and punish evildoers. Some have held the moon to be the first home of humanity, the Paradise lost by Eve's transgression; others have believed it to be

the place to which the souls of men ascend after death. Byron wrote:

"Sweet Dian's crest Floats through the azure air, an island of the blest;"

and a modern poetess has avowed her faith that the wretched find rest in Luna's serene regions. Many wise men of old believed the moon to be a world full of life, Pythagoras boldly asserting it had its seas and rivers,

its mountains, plains, and woods, its plants far lovelier than the flowers of earth, its animals fifteen times the size of those familiar to mundane eyes, ruled over by men of larger growth and higher mental faculties than those of earthly mould.

Leaving philosophers to speculate as to whether the moon was or was not the home of creatures more or less akin to humankind, unphilosophical folk agreed that the moon had one inhabitant at least, one of their own race, whose form was palpable to all who had eyes to see. How he attained his elevated position was in this wise. While the children of Israel sojourned in the wilderness, a man was detected gathering sticks upon the Sabbath-day, whereupon he was taken without the camp and stoned until he died. Not satisfied with this exemplary punishment of the offender by his fellow-wanderers, the vox populi condemned the unhappy Sabbath-breaker to a perpetual purgatory in the moon, wherein he may be seen, bearing his bundle of sticks upon his back, ever climbing and climbing without gaining a step; accompanied by a dog, faithful in worse than death, to a master, whom an old English song-writer pictures shuddering in constant fear of a fall, and shivering with cold as the frosty air bites his back through his thornrent clothes. Shakspeare's Stephano found Caliban ready enough to believe he was the man in the moon, dropped from the skies to become king of the enchanted island-"I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee; my mistress showed me thee, and thy dog, and thy bush." In Germany the story runs that, many ages ago, an old man went into the woods to cut sticks upon a Sunday morning. Having collected as many as he could carry, he slung the bundle upon a stick, shouldered it, and trudged homewards. He had not got far upon his way ere he was stopped by a handsome gentleman dressed in his Sunday best, who in

quired if he was aware it was Sunday on earth, when every one was bound to rest from labor. "Sunday on earth, or Monday in heaven, it is all the same to me!" was the irreverent reply. "So be it," said

his questioner: "bear, then, your fagot forever; and, since you do not value Sunday on earth, you shall have an everlasting moon-day in heaven-standing for eternity in the moon as a warning to Sabbathbreakers!" As he pronounced sentence the stranger vanished, and before the wood-gatherer could apologize for his rudeness, he was seized by invisible hands, and borne to the moon, pole, fagot, and all. According to another version, he had the option of burning in the sun or freezing in the moon, and chose the latter as the least of two evils.

Travelling northwards, we find the bundle of sticks transformed into a load of green stuff. A NorthFrisian, so devoid of honest ingenuity that he could think of no better way of passing his Christmas Eve than in stripping a neighbor's garden of its cabbages, was deservedly caught by some of the villagers as he was sneaking away with his plunder. Indignant at the theft, they wished the thief in the moon, and to the moon he went instanter; there he yet stands with the stolen cabbages on his back, turning himself round once on the anniversary of his crime and its detection. New Zealanders, too, claim the man in the moon as one of themselves, their story being, that one Rona, going out at night to fetch water from a well, stumbled, fell, and sprained his ankle so badly that, as he lay unable to move, he cried out with the pain. Then, to his dismay and terror, he beheld the moon descending towards him, evidently bent upon capturing him.

He seized hold of a tree, and clung to it tightly, but it gave way, and fell with him upon the moon, which carried both away. In Swabia, not content with a man,