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THE NATURAL HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE, in the County of Southampton. By the Rev. Gilbert White, M. A. The Standard Edition by E. T. Bennett. Thoroughly revised, with additional notes, by James Edmund Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. Illustrated with engravings, by Thomas Bewick, Harvey, and others. (London: Bickers & Son.

New York: J. Sabin & Sons, 8vo, 1875.) The time reaches back beyond the memory of the oldest inhabitant, when "White's Natural History of Selborne" was not a familiar name in English literature. Time, we are told, has brought with it many changes in that part of Great Britain; forests have been enclosed, lakes drained, and waste lands reclaimed. But the perennial charm of these notes of Natural History is not touched by any such changes. Mr. Harting's new edition has several features which especially recommend it to lovers of birds and of English country life. Himself familiar with the study of birds, and with the neighborhood of Selborne, his notes bring down the information to the latest date, while adhering carefully to the text of White's original edition. His publishers had acquired the copyright of Bennett's edition, one of the best hitherto known; many excellent features of which are retained by Mr. Harting. In addition to which the unexpected acquisition of a number of Bewick's engravings put it in the power of the pub lishers to illustrate a favorite author with the designs of an equally popular engraver and naturalist. The combined result is most happy. It is not difficult to predict that, for a long time to come, at least, Hartings-White will be the standard edition.

THACKERAYANA: Notes and Anecdotes. Illustrated by nearly Six Hundred Sketches by William Makepeace Thackeray, depicting Humorous Inci

dents in the School Life and Favorite Scenes and Characters in his books of his Everyday Reading. (London: Chatto & Windus. New York: J. Sabin & Sons.)

Thackeray had, it seems, a habit of writing and drawing little comic sketches upon the margins of his books; and when, in 1864. his library was dispersed by auction, Mr. Hotten secured a number of the volumes most liberally sketch margined. To the first purchase many volumes, similarly marked, were subsequently added; and the collection, edited and arranged for publication, now appears as an entertaining volume. Some of the bits of caricature on the extracts from the Guardian, the Spectator, the World, and other old-time magazines, are very funny while some of the sketches on books about Scotland and Paris are exceedingly clever. Thackeray, like Hood, was something of a draughtsman; they both, if we may believe what they say, thought more of their artistic than of their literary skill, and seldom resisted an opportunity of exercising their pencils on stray bits of paper, margins of old books, &c. In this volume it is the artistic rather than the literary element that will attract; though it is only fair to the anonymous compiler to say that he has taken great pains in piecing together his excerpts with pleasant and intelligent gossip. A similar book might be made from the theatrical library of the late Watts Phillips, who also began life as a draughtsman, and, like Thackeray, ended it as an author.

OBITUARY.

Baird.-Edward Carey Baird, of Pottsville, Pa., died recently, while on a visit to Ashland, Va. He was a grandson of the late Matthew Carey, and brother of Henry Carey Baird, the Philadelphia publisher, with whom he was in business until within a year or two of the commencement of the war. In April, 1861, he enlisted as a private in the Sixth Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers; on its reorganization for three years, became second lieutenant, and in the same year was appointed an assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of captain, and assigned to the staff of General Meade, where he served with distinction. He afterwards served with other generals, and was frequently commended in their dispatches for meritorious conduct. He was but thirty-four at the time of his death. We believe we can find no better place for the subjoined notice from the Bookseller of Dec. 1, last, than here:

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"It is common to associate an idea of newness with all things American. The United States has not yet celebrated the hundredth anniversary of its birthday, and a country so young in the family of nations is not expected to contain anything old. This thought attaches itself to the book trade in common with others, and it might be supposed the annals of the trade could only present a list of mushroom houses, becoming more numerous in modern times, but without one whose record might compare in antiquity with those of the Longmans or Rivingtons of England. Some of the publishing houses, however, date back nearly to the beginning of the century. John and James Harper began business before 1820; while Collins Brothers, and W. Wood & Co., both of New York, are the modern firm-names of houses even older than Harpers. In Philadelphia, however, two businesses are carried on, those of Henry C. Baird, and Henry C. Lee, which are descended from an even older house, that of Matthew Carey, a native of Ireland, who settled in Philadelphia in 1784. Matthew Carey had made himself obnoxious to the British Government by the publication of the Volunteer's Journal, in Dublin, and on coming to Philadelphia he commenced business by the publication of a newspaper, the Philadelphia Herald, and afterwards published two magaIn 1793 he engaged in the regular business of printing, publishing, and selling books, subsequently admitting his son, Henry C. Carey, into partnership. A son-in-law, Isaac Lee, and a younger son, E. L. Carey, also became partners in the firm. Matthew Carey retired in 1821, and until 1829 the firm of Carey, Lee & Carey, were recognized as the leading publishers in the country. At that date the firm split into two sections: one trading as Carey & Lee, consisted of H. C. Carey and I. Lee; and the other of E. L. Carey and A. Hart, the latter a clerk in the house, who was taken in as a partner. Carey & Lee shortly afterwards admitted their clerk, William A. Blanchard, as partner, and the firm became Carey, Lee & Blanchard until 1836, when H. C. Carey retired, and the name was changed to Lee & Blanchard. Isaac Lee retired about 1855, and his son Henry C. Lee, became a member of the firm, which was then known as Blanchard & Lee. Blanchard retired about 1865, and his death, which occurred in Philadelphia on the 6th inst., recalled his connection with this oldest of American publishing houses. Henry C. Lee still carries on the business, which under his management has been gradually changed from general publishing to the issue of medical books exclusively. The other branch of the house, Carey & Hart, continued from 1829 till 1845, when Carey retired, and his nephew, Henry C. Baird, succeeded to his interest, the name being changed to Hart & Baird. This firm dissolved in 1849, each partner continuing separately. Hart retired in 1854, and his business was disposed of to Parry & Macmillan, which firm was completely broken up about the end of 1858, Parry joining the then young firm of J. B. Lippincott & Co., where he still continues. H. C. Baird has continued his business to the present time, and like his cousin H. C. Lee, has given up miscellaneous books, and issues only industrial and scientific works. The Careys were among the earliest publishers of Cooper and Irving, and they issued reprints of Scott's works, when he was still the "Great Unknown." In these primitive days much of the work of selling books was done by pedlars, and among the agents or pedlars who sold their books was W. M. Weems, who was afterwards known as the

author of a "Life of Washington." Matthew Carey was a voluminous writer on political subjects, and his son Henry C. Carey, who is still living, is the author of a perfect library of books on political economy. H. C. Lee is known as the author of a very able work, "Superstition and Force," and H. C. Baird is a frequent contributor to periodicals and newspapers, on financial and political matters. It will thus be seen that we have at least one firm which dates back in hereditary succession to a very respectable antiquity."

Brockhaus.-The German papers announce the death of Heinrich Brockhaus, the head of the great publishing firm at Leipzig. He was not only the greatest German publisher-the last catalogue of his house amounts to about 2,400 numbers-but he belonged to that old and now almost extinct race of booksellers who raised their trade to the dignity of a liberal profession, and used their influence in creating and fostering a national literature. He could meet the most eminent authors on terms of perfect equality, as he had received the best education, and always kept pace with the advances of science and literature of the day. He was a great traveller, and there are few cities in Europe where some friends will not mourn for him. He took an active part, as a liberal politician, in the struggles for German unity and constitutional freedom. He died in his seventy

first year. His firm is now represented by his two sons, Dr. E. Brockhaus and R. Brockhaus.-Academy. He was born at Amsterdam, February 4, 1804, pied at Leipzig, Nov. 15, 1874, and was honored by the University of Jena with the Degree of Ph. D.

Clarke.-Thomas Cottrell Clarke died at his residence, in Camden, N. J., on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1874. Mr. Clarke was born at Newport, R. I., January 11, 1801. One of his ancestors was Dr. John Clarke, who procured from King Charles II. for the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations the first charter, the central principle of which was freedom, especially religious freedom, secured by fundamental law. Mr. T. C. Clarke removed to Philadelphia in the year 1820, and from that time, until within ten years, was actively identified with the press of that city, having been the original editor of the Saturday Evening Post, and thereafter the founder and editor of the Ladies' Album, Literary Portfolio, Museum, and Saturday Courier. The latter publication was for many years the most popular and flourishing journal of its kind in the country, having attained a circulation of over 60,000. In 1837 Mr. Clarke published, in connection with the late Dr. R. N. Bird, a magazine called the American Monthly. On January 31, 1843, Mr. Clarke associated with him Edgar A. Poe, and under the firm of Clarke & Poe published for a time a monthly magazine entitled the Stylus. While editing the Philadelphia Courier Mr. Clarke employed Mr. Poe as literary and art critic.-Potter's American Monthly.

Cornell. Hon. Ezra Cornell, the founder of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., died at that place after a long illness. December 9, 1874. He was the son of Elijah Cornell and Eunice Barnard his wife, and was born at Westchester Landing, Westchester county, Jan. 11, 1807. His father was a potter at Tarrytown, but in 1819 removed to De Ruyter with his family. There he lived till 1826, when he left his father's house at the age of nineteen to seek em

ployment. This he obtained in Homer, but in 1828 engaged in business as a builder at Ithaca. For fourteen years he continued here, and as a farmer and builder laid the foundation of that splendid fortune which in later years enabled him to be the patron of learning and the mechanic and industrial arts. In 1843, in connection with the late Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse and Frank O. J. Smith, of Portland, Me.,.Mr. Cornell entered upon an untried project, but out of and by his enterprises and skill he was enabled to reap a fortune. This was the invention of the magnetic telegraph. Congress having made an appropriation of $30,000, the Secretary of the Treasury, Hon. J. C. Spencer, appointed Mr. Cornell Assistant Superintendent. Mr. Cornell's friends claim for him the credit of correcting and remedying defects in the Morse instruments. In 1845, and the two years subsequent, he constructed the telegraph lines from Baltimore to New York and from Troy to Montreal, and invested largely in the stock. For some years he was President of the American Telegraph Company. In politics he was a Whig, till the organization of the Republican party. In 1863 he served as a member of the Legislature, and in 1864 was elected Senator of the Twenty-fourth District, and served two terms. The crowning glory of his life was the endowment of the university which bears his name, and which he had the satisfaction of seeing take a leading place among our institutions of learning. He was married to Miss Mary Ann Wood, daughter of Benjamin Wood, of Dryden, in 1831. Their son, Hon. Alonzo B. Cornell, was Speaker of the Assembly in 1873. Mr. Cornell was buried at Ithaca.-N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record.

Fortuny. The decease of the eminent Spanish painter, Señor Fortuny, is stated to have taken place at Rome on November 21, 1874, in consequence of an attack of typhoid fever. He was about thirty-five years of age, and born at Barcelona. His master was a pupil of Overbeck. Early in his career he went to Madrid, and studied Velasquez and Gorga, the latter with exceptional energy, as the student's pictures proved. Having achieved a certain degree of reputation by the brilliancy and originality of his art, Fortuny obtained a commission from the Spanish Government to paint the Battle of Tetuan, the price to be 6,000 francs, on condition that his work should equal H. Vernet's "Smala." Fortuny was the brother-in-law of Madrazo; and the school of which these two have been the inspiration, had its origin in Spain, its seat in Rome, and its principal market in Paris. Fortuny shared with Madrazo the gift of expressive and vivacious drawing on a minute scale, and the power of using brilliant and complicated color with an harmonious effect. But these dexterities he turned to no very valuable ends, and in no very dignified manner. His conceptions had the cynicism without the depth of Goya, and his touch the minuteness without the style of Meissonnier. What he and his school have loved is to invest the lowest types of human nature with the most sparkling fripperies of the collector's wardrobe-to show their skill in expressing at once the characters of mean and carnal men and women, and the subtleties of tone and combination in gorgeous stuffs of Spain,

Italy, the East, or the latest Parisian manufacture. Some of his pictures, the brilliancy and attractiveness of which are beyond dispute, were shown at the French Gallery, London; but he cannot be said to have taken the English by storm. Nevertheless it is true that the loss of so much power and of a charm of such thoroughly original character is great indeed.

Hood-On the 20th of November last died, in his 40th year, Tom Hood, the son of Thomas Hood, the poet and comic writer, and author of the "Song of the Shirt." As author and poet, Tom Hood essayed to follow his father haud passibus equis, but in his literary fortunes he was much happier, and probably earned more than twice the elder Hood, whose rhymes to his infant son will be well remembered, ever did. The public, who had neglected the father when alive, determined to favor the son. He was sent to college by kind friends-to Pembroke College, Oxford-in 1853, where he passed all examinations, but did not take the B. A. His first work, "Pen and Pencil Pictures,' written at Oxford, was published in 1854-55. It was followed by "Quips and Cranks," and "Daughters of King Daher," and other Poems, in 1861; "Loves of Tom Tucker and Little Bo-peep," "Rhyming Rigmarole," in 1862; "Vere Vereker's Vengeance, a Sensation," in 1864; "Captain Master's Children, a Novel," and "Jingles and Jokes for the Little Folks," in 1865. "A Disputed Inheritance," "Golden Heart," Money's Worth," and "Love and Valour," 1871, are amongst other novels he has written.

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also author of "Rules of Rhyme," a guide to versification. He has written several books for youngsters, and illustrated his father's comic verses. was given a place under the British Government, but forsook that for literature. He was appointed editor of Fun in May, 1865. Tom Hood's geniality and kind-heartedness endeared him to a large circle of friends. Mr. Hood, who had lately married, leaves a young wife, and, we believe, children by his first wife, who died about a year ago, and in whose grave he was buried.

Jardine. Sir William Jardine, the distinguished naturalist, whose death has just been announced, was born at Jardine Hall, in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1800. He was educated at Edinburgh, and early showed great fondness for the study of natural history. In connection with Dr. Horsfeld and other ornithologists, he published "Illustrations of Ornithology," and edited Wilson's "North American Ornithology" and the "Naturalists' Library." Sir William was a member of many learned societies, contributed largely to the scientific transactions and periodicals, and was editor of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. He was a keen sportsman as well as a good naturalist, and it is said of him that he could bring down a bird, write a most accurate description of it, draw it and engrave the drawing, and then stuff the skin in the most workmanlike manner. His museum at Jardine Hall forms one of the finest and mcst valuable collections in Great Britain.

Lankester. It is our sad duty to record the death of Edwin Lankester, M. D., F. R. S., a distinguished Scientific man. Dr. Lankester was born in Melton,

Suffolk, England, in 1814, and graduated M. D. at Heidelberg in 1839. He was one of those few men who, in addition to holding a high position in his own profession, was also distinguished for his original research, and still more so as one of the ablest and most eloquent popularizers of science. His works are widely known and read, and everywhere highly appreciated.

Luyster. We regret to announce the decease of David B. Luyster, of the firm of A. L. Luyster & Co., New York. He died at his residence in Brooklyn, L. I., Dec. 5, 1874, aged twenty-eight. He was well known to a large number of book buyers and members of the profession, for his bibliopolistic knowledge and urbanity of manners.

Moultrie.-Shropshire born, Wiltshire bred, at Eton taught, at Cambridge perfected, and at Rugby stationed to give to the world the great benefits of his training, John Moultrie has closed an honored and useful career. He was born in 1799, just as the old school of people who had gathered round Dr. Johnson was dying out. The lady leader of that circle, Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, died in 1800, soon after which the young disciples of the school found the world changing about them, and new ideas, new men and new leaders driving out the old blue-stockingism, the lemonade conversaziones, the pale yet pretentious dilettantism, and the pomander tone generally. Moultrie, a clergyman's son, proved himself to be of the new reign. Even before he was of age he gave a bright promise of becoming a poet. The promise was so good that he could hardly better it; and the lines, manly and affecting, "My Brother's Grave," remain among his finest. How different the young poets of the present century are from the old and young of the preceding period, is a matter of universal recognition. Of what mettle young Moultrie was formed he gave evidence in the Etonian and in Knight's Quarterly Magazine. Men of less fine minds, of inferior intellect, and with few of the claims to reward which Moultrie could show, outstripped him, however, in the race for worldly honors. He had the stuff in him for an archbishop, but he remained only a poet and a priest. A holy man, too, in both characters, and in both supremely happy also, and as Rector of Rugby-a living to which the Earl of Craven had the good sense to appoint him—he was, within his limits, as revered, as useful, and as dignified as many a prelate who had passed by him in the race, and who made a racket in the world in order to keep his name before the public.

After all, a Warwickshire rectory, learned leisure, means befitting a scholar and gentleman (applied as a scholar and gentleman would not fail to do), these, with not only a love for, but a smile of welcome and approval from, the Muse, make up a sum of things that harassed bishops and archbishops might envy. Moultrie's whole history is there; but curates with a turn for poetry and propriety of life must not, therefore, conclude that they will necessarily come to the same desirable conclusion. Moultrie worked hard to be the hero of such a history, and the "Lower Boy" at Eton probably looked to a rectory as a thing not to be had by the mere appreciation of its value. He worked hard, that is to say, wherever there was an

object worth the working for; but he took correct measure of himself, and would not waste his health in competition for honors so uncertain of attainment, and not worth the sacrifice of health. If every man knew his own measure as well, how much pleasanter people would be in society, and society how much more agreeable generally! It was said of Mrs. Montagu that she never had a fool for a friend. In this respect Moultrie resembled, at least, this lady of the old school; for to name his friends would be to name the brightest intellects and most honored men of his time. If it be asked to what party Moultrie belonged in the Church, we should reply that this manly rector, with his child-like trust, was neither Protestant nor Catholic, neither Vaticanist nor English Sectarian. He was a member, however, of a very small sect-that one alluded to by the apostle who said that Christians would be known by their love for one another. So the Rector of Rugby was a Christian in the best sense of the term. There were two women who brightened the priest-poet's life, his mother (as full of humor, character and intellect as her son), who died but seven years ago, and his wife, whom he not only wooed, but honestly after persistent wooing, and who, for nearly forty years, was the pride of the house and its master. How could he be otherwise than happy! Happy

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in his life, happy in his duties, in his pastimes, in his cultivation of poetry, and happy in his death; for his end came through mortal fever caught by attending on a sick parishioner. So passed away the author of modestly called "Poems," "The Dream of Life, and other Poems," of "Sonnets," and, let us add, the editor of "Gray," with a poetical preface, full of sympathy with the older poet, and as rich in poetical feeling as Gray himself ever felt, and to the feeling gave expression.-The Athenæum.

Phillips. We regret to chronicle the decease of one of those varied and clever authors who work for the people, and whose names are yet but seldom known to fame in the true literary sense, Watts Phillips. He died on the 2d of Dec. last, aged fortynine. A pupil of George Cruikshank, and a harsh though powerful illustrator, he was artist, novelist, dramatist, essayist, political writer and critic, and all that he did he did to a certain level forcibly and well. "I have rarely known," says G. A. Sala, in a generous notice," a more various, capable, brilliant, and, in all respects, singular man. He drew beautifully, and could etch a design on stone and wood. When I knew him first, some two-and-twenty years ago, he was drawing caricatures and penning humorous essays in a periodical long since defunct, entitled Diogenes. Suddenly, to the surprise of all his friends, he achieved great success as a dramatist. He was the author of The Dead Heart,' 'The Poor Strollers,' 'The Huguenot Captain,' Camilla's Husband,' 'Nobody's Child,' On the Jury,' and 'Lost in London,' which is even now running a triumphant career at the Princess's Theatre, London. He must have written at least thirty plays, many of which still keep the stage'; but how many novels and tales he wrote in such popular periodicals as the London Journal and Bow Bells, under the nom-de-plume of Fairfax Balfour,' I am sure I cannot tell." And yet with all this industry, talent, and power, Watts Phillips was con

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strained to draw his chief subsistence from Bow Bells and the London Journal.

Rousseaux-The French journals announce the death of A. E. Rousseaux, the able engraver, and pupil of Henriquel-Dupont, who engraved Scheffer's "Christ and St. John "in a style which was considerably more valuable than that of the picture, and by means of it Rousseaux achieved reputation. He reproduced, for the Société Française de Gravure," La Poésie" and "La Renommée et la Vérité," after Correggio. Delaroche's "Martyre Chrétienne and the "Vierge et l'Enfant Jésus," by Hébert, were also subjects of his burin.

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Servell.--Rev. William Sewell, B. D., Senior Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, England, died in November, 1874, at the age of about seventy. Mr. Sewell was educated at Harrow School. Thence he went to Merton College, Oxford, where he closed his under-graduate career by obtaining a first class in the School of Literæ Humaniores, in 1827. In the same year he was elected to a Fellowship at Exeter College. Two years later he obtained the Chancellor's prizes for both the English and Latin essays. In 1832 he was one of the public examiners in the classical schools, and from 1836 down to 1841 he held the University Professorship of Moral Philosophy. Mr. Sewell was a voluminous writer on theological and other subjects.

Tischendorf.-The most eminent textual critic of the New Testament, Professor von Tischendorf, died in Leipzig, after a lingering illness of a year and a half, on Monday morning, Dec. 7, aged fifty-nine. His first critical edition of the New Testament, published when he was a young man, was received with such favor as to indicate distinctly his future career. In order to compare the different manuscripts of the New Testament, he was compelled to make numerous and extensive travels. He had been three times in England and three times in the East. On one of his Oriental tours he was so fortunate as to discover the Sinaitic manuscript, which is the oldest known copy of the New Testament, and of inestimable worth in textual criticism. Much of his brilliant reputation was due to this discovery, supported as it was by the keenest critical acumen and a marvellous power of physical endurance. His revisions have been circulated everywhere, and to an extent beyond all precedent. In Leipzig alone not less than twentytwo of his critical editions have been published. His authorized English New Testament, containing the variations of the three most important manuscripts, was published by Tauchnitz, and in the first year (1869) nearly fifty-thousand copies were sold in the British Isles alone. He died before he had finished the work upon which he was employed, a large and comprehensive critical edition of the New Testament being left incomplete. A manual of Palæography, which no one else is in a position to write as he could have written it, he had not even begun The procession which followed his body to the grave was one befitting his work and life. The different societies of students attended en masse, or were represented by delegates. Many of the university professors were present, as also members of all classes of society, commercial, civil, and military.

Warren. We are sorry to hear that the British Museum library has been deprived of one of its most valuable officials. Edward Alfred Warren, who died in Nov. last, at the early age of thirty-eight, belonged to that class of public servants who, although their names may not be familiar to the general public, are well known in official circles for great and important services. For nearly twenty years he was engaged in supervising the transcription and arrangement of the many thousand of titles written for the Catalogue of the Printed Book Department in the British Mu⚫seum, a work requiring for its fit performance an unusual amount of method, capacity and judgment, as well as of literary and linguistic attainments. The Pall Mall Gazette states:

"Mr. Warren has died of disease aggravated, perhaps even induced, by the unwholesomeness of the apartment assigned to him for his daily work. Some time ago, when his health first failed, he consulted one of the first physicians in London, who judiciously asked to see the room in which his patient spent the larger part of his time. The rest of the story is so unpleasant that we would fain believe it an invention. But the story runs, truly or falsely, that on Mr. Warren reporting to the chief authority of the Museum the doctor's opinion that his room was unfit for occupation, he was reprimanded for introducing a medical man without the express leave of the said authority. The story goes further than this, much further, indeed, but whether it be true or not, one thing is certain, that we have lost a valuable public servant in Mr. Warren, as we lost one in Mr. Deutsch, aud that though illnatured people would attribute both these losses, in some degree at least, to the obstructiveness of certain officials, we may safely follow Lord Chesterfield's rule, and never believe more than half what we hear.

O, GIVE ME A LOCK OF YOUR SILKEN

HAIR.

AN ORIGINAL POEM.

O give me a lock of your silken hair!

Said a youth to a maiden sweet to see;

The maiden smil'd, and oh! so fair

Was the smile on her lips, so full of glee.

What would you do with my silken hair?
I would hoard it in a locket of gold,
And wear it, oh maiden, ever there

About my neck until silly and old.

But what would you do with my silken hair?
I would water it with my ardent tears,

And keep it, oh maiden, ever there

Next to my heart for years and years.

But what will you give for my silken hair?
I would give for a simple auburn lock,
My crook and my lute, my own pet lamb,

And the whole of the fleece of my milk-white
flock.

But how shall I cut from my silken hair
A curl to put in thy locket of gold?
Shall I wield the shears that are lying there
With which you fleece your milk-white fold?

No, maiden, I would not spoil a curl,
A ringlet of your silken hair,
For every diamond, ruby, and pearl,
That in the earth lies buried there.
But since you seem so loath to part
With a single lock, my maiden fair,
Give me your little hand and heart
Together with all your silken hair!

SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL LIBRARY.

"It realizes the best idea of honoring the memory of the greatest of England's sons." CHARLES KNIGHT.

The Shakespeare Memorial Library was founded in 1864, in celebration of the tercentenary of the poet's birth, at Birmingham, England, the chief city of Shakespeare's own county, and near the town in which he was born. The Library has already become the largest collection of Shakespeare's works and the literature which they have produced. The late Charles Knight gave more than a hundred volumes used in the editing of his various editions; and Mr. J. O. Phillipps (Halliwell), Mr. Howard Staunton, Mr. J. Payne Collier and other famous Shakespearians have liberally contributed to enrich its shelves.

The local annual subscriptions have sufficed to purchase all the ordinary and accessible works, and the more valuable and rare volumes have been given or bequeathed.

As the library was presented to the corporation and belongs to the town, it cannot be reduced or dispersed, but it is open to visitors and students to the free library, of which it forms part; and although none of the books are allowed to be taken from the reading room, it is very largely and intelligently

used.

As a literary memorial of an author's genius and works the library is unique, and all who know of its existence are always glad to give any Shakespeare tribute, to so valuable and appropriate, and permanent a memorial of the "Poet of all Time."

As Americans are well known as great lovers of Shakespeare, as the great majority of visitors to the poet's birth-place, home and grave, and as the American literature concerning Shakespeare is so extensive and valuable, it has been deemed advisable to ask authors and publishers to contribute any Shakespearian works to a library where they will be highly valued, appropriately catalogued, and carefully preserved.

At the request of the English subscribers and donors Mr. J. Parker Norris has undertaken to forward any books, pamphlets, magazines or newspapers which may be sent to him in order that America may be adequately represented in the great literary monument to Shakespeare's fame.

Mr. Joseph Crosby, has also consented to receive any books, pamphlets, magazines or newspapers from the western portion of the United States.

It is also particularly desired that in case any publisher or author of any book, etc., relating in any way to Shakespeare or his writings, shall not see fit to contribute a copy as a gift to the library, that they will be kind enough to send a memorandum of its title, place of publication, etc., either to Mr. J. Parker Norris, 204 South Seventh Street, Philadelphia, Pa., for the Eastern, Middle or Southern States, or to Mr. Joseph Crosby, 83 Main Street, Zanesville, Ohio, for the Western States, who will at once inform the library of its publication, in order that they may take steps towards it purchase if they see fit.

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