xecution, are to be found in this "Sciolum Florentinum," as
Labbe calls him. Consult the _Polyhist. Literar._, vol. i.,
p. 175.]

[Footnote 121: Magliabechi put CINELLI upon publishing his
BIBLIOTHECA VOLANTE, 1677, 8vo., a pretty work, with a happy
title!--being an indiscriminate account of some rare books
which the author picked up in his travels, or saw in
libraries. It was republished, with valuable additions, by
Sancassani, at Venice, in 1734, 4to. See _Cat. de Lomenie_,
No. 2563. Works of this sort form the ANA of
bibliography! CONRINGIUS compiled a charming bibliographical
work, in an epistolary form, under the title of _Bibliotheca
Augusta_; which was published at Helmstadt, in 1661,
4to.--being an account of the library of the Duke of
Brunswick, in the castle of Wolfenbuttle. Two thousand
manuscripts, and one hundred and sixteen thousand printed
volumes, were then contained in this celebrated collection.
Happy the owner of such treasures--happy the man who
describes them! LOMEIER'S, or Lomejer's "_De Bibliothecis
Liber singularis_," Ultraj, 1669-1680, 8vo., is considered
by Baillet among the best works upon the subject of ancient
and modern libraries. From this book, Le Sieur LE GALLOIS
stole the most valuable part of his materials for his
"_Traite des plus belles Bibliotheques de l'Europe_," 1685,
1697--12mo.: the title at full length (a sufficiently
imposing one!) may be seen in _Bibe. Crevenn._, vol. v., p.
281; upon this latter treatise, Morhof cuttingly
remarks--"Magnos ille titulus strepitus facit: sed pro
thesauris carbones." _Polyhist. Literar._, vol. i., p. 191.
See also "_Jugemens des Savans_," vol. ii., p. 152. Gallois
dispatches the English libraries in little more than a page.
I possess the second edition of Lomeier's book (1680--with
both its title pages), which is the last and best--and an
interesting little volume it is! The celebrated Graevius used
to speak very favourably of this work.]

LIS. Pray discuss their works, or merits, _seriatim_, as the judges
call it; for I feel overwhelmed at the stringing together of such
trisyllabic names. These gentlemen, as well as almost every one of
their predecessors, are strangers to me; and you know my bashfulness
and confusion in such sort of company.

LYSAND. I hope to make you be