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pable, by the infufficiency of their fortune, Analyse des Travaux de la Societe

to fuftain the expenfe. Twenty-fix combats of wild beasts brought from Africa, have been offered by me to the people, in my own name, or in the name of my fons and grandfons, and about three thousand five hundred beasts have been killed in them."

He mentions that there were about eighty statues of himself in Rome, and that he had them melted and made into offerings for the Temple of Apollo.

After having cleared the feas of pirates, he fent back to their masters, "in order that they might make them undergo the deferved punishment," about thirty, thoufand fugitive flaves.

des Philobiblon de Londres.

PAR OCTAVE DELEPIERRE.
Londres, 1862. 8vo.

THE Philobiblon Society is composed of
a felect number of bibliophiles in London.
The late Prince Albert was its first prefi-
dent. Since his death, the Duc d'Aumale
(the fourth fon of Louis Philippe, and one of
the Bourbon heirs to the throne of France,
now refident in London, but more honora-
bly known as an intelligent bibliophile, and
the generous poffeffor of a valuable library)
has been elected its prefident. The circu-
lation of the Philobiblon Society's publica-
tions is confined to its members, none of
the copies being for fale. These publica-
tions already comprise fix volumes.

He ends with a long enumeration of all the military and diplomatic triumphs gained during his reign, and adds: "After having, The members of the fociety have also in my fixth and seventh confulate, put down the right to publifh, with the types of the the civil wars, I returned to the hands of fociety, and upon the fame paper, any ori the Senate and the people the power which ginal works, inedited manufcripts, or reimthe consent of all had given me over the preffions of fcarce books. This right has Republic. In return, the Senate decreed been exercised three times. to me the name of Auguftus, and wished The work whofe title heads this article, that the jambs of the door of my houfe is an analyfis, by M. Delepierre, of the fofhould be decorated with laurels, and that ciety's publications. M. Delepierre is well over the entrance fhould be placed a civic known to the bibliographical world by his crown of oak, reminding all the citizens Maccaroneana, the moft complete effay that I had faved them

"A buckler of goid was placed in the curia Julia, by the Senate and the people, to atteft, by the infcription which accompanies it, my virtue, my clemency, my juf tice, and my piety... During my thirteenth confulfhip, the Senate, the knights, and all the people, called me the Father of the country, and wished that this title fhould be infcribed upon the vestibule of my houfe, in the curia, and in the forum Auguftus, above a quadrangle which had been confecrated to me by virtue of a Senatus confultus.

upon maccaronic verfe which we have; alfo by his, Hiftoire Littéraire des Fous, and other works. M. Delepierre has divided his analyfis into four parts-Bibliog raphy, Hiftory, Biography, and Literary Mifcellanies. From this analyfis we learn that, among other ftudies, the following are comprised in the Philobiblon Society's publications: the Duc d'Aumale has contributed Notes fur Deux Petites Bibliothèques Françaises du Quinzième Siècle, which contains notices of the fifty-three works which formed the collections of Antoine de Chourfes and Jean du Mas, two biblioWhen I wrote this, I was in the fixty- philes of that period. fixth year of my age."

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M. Curzon has communicated a notice

upon fome Italian libraries. In the courfe of his article, he mentions one Pamphile Castaldi, born in 1398, who died in 1490, and for whom he claims the honor of having invented the art of printing with movable types, and of having thus printed at Venice, in 1426, various broadfides, or fingle leaves.

facre as a special intervention of Providence, refulting in a national deliverance.

M. Van de Weyer contributes fome letters upon a curious fpecialty in bibliography, to which he has devoted fome attention-namely, a collection of the works of Englishmen who have written in French. Thomas Hales, a writer (principally for the Dr. Waagen, of Berlin, whofe work upon theatre) of the time of Louis XV., who was the Art Treasures of Great Britain shows known in French circles under the name of him to be at once an amateur as well as a Dhell or D'Hele, is the fubject of an excritical connoiffeur of art, contributes an tremely interefting ftudy. In volume iv., article upon the study of the Miniatures in part ii., of Grimm's Correfpondence, will be the Old Manufcripts, as a record of the found one of his ftories, entitled, Le Roman character and progrefs of art from the ninth de mon Oncle. to the fifteenth century. Dr. Waagen alfo Mr. Danby Seymour defcribes a collecannounces his intention of publishing a Hition of outlines for the difcourfe pronounced tory of the Art of Miniature-Painting dur- before the Etats Généraux by Louis XVI., ing the Middle Ages, illuftrated with fac- which is in his poffeffion. Each of the fimiles from the finest manufcripts of Eu- minifters prefented a form of addrefs, from rope. «E] E-51 which the king drew up an outline himself, which was reviewed by Marie Antoinette; and, after two other revifions, the addrefs, as pronounced, was drawn up

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o Mr. W. Stirling communicates a notice upon the first edition of the Adagia of Erafmus (Paris, 1500), which, from its rarity, has never been accurately defcribed before.

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The three works published by members of the Society area Hiflory of the ExpeThe Duc d'Aumale contributes likewife dition in 1627 by the English against the Notes et Documents relatifs à Jean, Roi land of Rhé, printed from a manufcript de France, et à fa captivité en Angleterre. by Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury; Mr. Stirling alfo contributes Extracts the Inventaire des Meubles du Cardinal from the Dispatches of Federigo Badoer, de Mazarin, drawn up in 1653 by Colbert, the ambaffador of Venice, written in 1555 and which occupies four hundred and four 56, and which are useful as containing in- pages (this manufcript formed part of the formation concerning the reign of Charles archives of the house of Condé, and is pubV., which is not in Gachard's Retraite et lifhed with an introduction and notes by Mort de Charles Quint, or in Mr. Stir the Duc d'Aumale); and Memoirs of the ling's own book, The Cloister-Life of Court of Spain under the Reign of Charles Charles Vow bib At godt 7. H.(167882), edited by Mr. Stirling from L. - Monckton Milnes occupies fixty-two the manufcript of the Marquis of Villars, pages with an examination of the various ambaffador at the court. contemporary apologies for the maffacre of Saint Bartholomew, which are now exceedingly rare. Those who doubt that the progi refs of civilization is a progrefs in public decency and humanity, might with profit confider these pieces, which treat the maf

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This sketch will fhow the nature of the labors of the Philobiblon Society. At fomé future time I may return to the subject reproducing, perhaps, fame of their publications, for the readers of The Philobiblion. d.

H. 1

THE DEATH AND CHARACTER

OF THE

proaching End. On the Eighteenth of November, he took in Course for his Text, the Four Laft Verses of the Second Epistle

Ever-Memorable Mr. John Cotton. to Timothy, giving this Reafon for his In

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FROM HIS LIFE BY COTTON MATHER.

(Borton, 1695. 12mo.)

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fifting on fo many Verfes at once, Because elfe (he faid) I fhall not Live to make an End of this Epytle but he chiefly Insisted THE following curious account of the on thofe Words, Grace be with you all. "ever-memorable Mr. John Cotton" is Upon the Lords-Day following, he Preachtaken from an exceedingly rare and inter- ed his Laft Sermon, on Joh. I. 14. About efting little volume, written by Cotton that Glory of the Lord Jefus Christ, from Mather, entitled, "Johannes in Eremo. the Faith to the Sight whereof, he was now Memoirs, Relating to the LIVES, of the Haftening. After this in that Study which Ever-Memorable, Mr. JOHN COTTON, who had been Perfumed with many fuch Dayes Dyed, 23. d. 10. m. 1652. Mr. JOHN before, he now spent a Day in Secret HuNORTON, Who Dyed, 5. d. 2. m. 1663. miliations and Supplications, before the Mr. JOHN WILSON, who Dyed, 7. d. 6. m. Lord; feeking the Special Affiftences of the 1667. Mr. JOHN DAVENPORT, who Dyed, Holy Spirit, for the Great Work of DYING, 15. d. 1. m. 1.670. Reverend and Re- that was now before him. What Glorious nowned Ministers of the Gospel, All, in Transactions might one have Heard paffing the more Immediate Service of ONE between the Lord Jefus Christ, and an ExCHURCH, in Boston; And Mr. THOMAS cellent Servant of His, now coming unto HOOKER, who Dyed, 17 d. 5. m. 1647. Him, if he could have had an Hearing Pastor of the Church at Hartford New: Place behind the Hangings of the ChamENGLAND. Printed for and Sold by Mi- ber, in fuch a Day! But having finished chael Perry, at his Shop, under the Weft the Duties of the Day, he took his. Leave End of the Town-Houfe [Bofton], 1695." of his Beloved Study, faying to his Confort, At Length, upon Defire, Going to hall Go into that Room no more! And Preach a Sermon at Cambridge, (which he he had all along Prefages in his Heart, did, on Ifa. 54. 13. Thy Children fhall be that God would by his Prefent Sickness, all Taught of the Lord; and, from thence give him an Entrance into the Everlastgave many Excellent Counfils, unto the ing Kingdom of the Lord Jefus Chrift. Students of the Colledge there) he took Wherefore, Setting his Houfe in Order, Wet, in his Paffage over the Ferry; but he he was now fo far from unwilling to Reprefently felt the Effect of it, by the failing ceive the Mercy-Stroke of Death, as that of his Voice in Sermon time; which ever he was Defirous to be with Him, With until now, had been a clear, neat, audible whom to be, is, by far, the Best of All. Voice, and eafily-heard in the moft Capa- And although the chief Ground of his cious Auditory. Being found So Doing, Readiness to be Gone, was from the unutas it had often been his Declared With, terably Sweet and Rich Entertainments, That he might not out-live his Work! which he did by Fore-taft, as well as by his Illiefs.went on to an Inflammation in Promife, know that the Lord had Reserved his Lungs from whence he grew fome in the Heavenly Regions for him, yet he what Athmatical but there was a Complication of other Scorbutic Affects, which put him under many Symptoms of his ap

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unto; Particularly Perkins, Ames, Prefton, Sixty Eighth year of his own Age; And Hilderfham, Dod, and others, which had on the Day, yea, at the Hour, of his conbeen peculiarly Dear unto himfelf; bendes ftant Weekly Labours in the. Lecture, the Reft, in that General Affembly. While wherein, he had been fo long Serviceble, he thus Lay Sick, the Magytrates, the Min- even to all the Churches of New-England. ifters, of the Country, and Christians of all Upon Tuesday the Twenty eighth of De Sorts, Reforted unto him, as unto a Publick cember, he was moft Honourably Interred, Father, full of fad Apprehenfions, at the with a moft Numerous Concourfe of Peowithdraw of fuch a Publick Bleffing, and ple, and the moft Grievous and Solemn the Gracious Words, that Proceeded out Funeral, that was ever known perhaps of his Mouth, while he had Strength to ut- upon the American Strand; and the Lecter the profitable Conceptions of his Mind, tures in his Church, the whole Winter folcaufed them to Reckon thefe their Vifits, lowing, performed by the Neighbouring the Gainfullest that ever they had made. Minifters, were but fo Funeral-SerAmong others, the then Prefident of the mons, upon the Death and Worth of this Colledge, with many Tears, defired of Mr. Extraordinary Perfon; Among which the Cotton, before his Departure, to bestow his First, I think, was Preached by Mr. RichBleffing on him, faying, I know in my ard Mather, who gave unto the bereaved Heart, they whom you Blefs, fhall be Blef- Church at Bofton, this great Character of fed. And not long before his Death, he their Incomparable COTTON, Let us fent for the Elders of the Church, whereof, Pray, that God would Raife up fome Elehe himself, was also an Elder; who, hav- azer to fucceed this Aaron; But you can' ing, according to the Apoftolical Direction, hardly Expect, that fo large a Portion of Pray'd over him, he Exhorted them to the Spirit of God fhould dwell in any one, Feed the Flock over which they were Over- as dwelt in this Blessed man! And genfeers, and encrease their Watch against erally in the other Churches through the thofe Declenfions, which he faw the Pro- Country, the Expiration of this General fellors of Religion Falling into: Adding, Bleffing to them all, did produce FuneralI have now, through Grace, been more Sermons full of Honour and Sorrow; even than Forty years a Servant unto the Lord as many Miles above an Hundred, as NewJefus Chrift, and have ever found Him a haven was diftant from the Massachuset good Mafter. When his Collegue, Mr. Bay, when the Tidings of Mr. Cotton's Wilfon, took his Leave of him, with a Deceafe arrived there, Mr. Davenport, With, that God would Lift up the Light with many Tears bewailed it, in a Publick of His Countenance upon him, he inftantly Difcourfe on that in 2 Sam. 1, 26. I am Replyed, God hath done it already, Broth- Diftreffed for thee, my Brother Jonathan, er! He then called for his Children, with very Pleafant haft thou been unto me. Yea, whom he left the Gracious Covenant of They fpeak of Mr. Cotton in their LamGod, as their never Failing-Portion; and entations to this Day!

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now defired, that he might be left Private, "How vaft a Treasure of Learning was laid in the Reft of his Minutes, for the more Free- the Grave, which was opened on this Occasion, dom of his Applications unto the Lord. can Scarce Credibly and fufficiently be related. So, Lying Speechless a few Hours, he Mr. Cotton was indeed, a moft Univerfal Scholor, Breathed his Bleffed Soul into the Hands and a Living System of the Liberal Arts, and a Walking Library. It would be endlefs to recite of his Heavenly Lord; on the Twenty all his particular Accomplishments, but only Three third of December 1652, Entring on the Articles of Obfervation shall be offered. First, for

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