the whole. It is with reluctance my
zeal for literature compels me to add that a _Catalogue
Raisonnee of the Manuscripts and Printed Books in the
Bodleian Library_ is an urgent desideratum--acknowledged by
every sensible and affectionate son of ALMA MATER. Talent
there is, in abundance, towards the completion of such an
honourable task; and the only way to bring it effectually
into exercise is to employ heads and hands enough upon the
undertaking. Let it be remembered what Wanley and Messrs.
Planta and Nares have done for the Cottonian and Harleian
MSS.--and what Mr. Douce is now doing for those of the
Lansdowne collection! One gentleman alone, of a very
distinguished college, in whom the acuteness and solidity of
Porson seem almost revived, might do wonders for the Greek
MSS., and lend an effectual aid towards the arrangement of
the others. The printed books might be assigned, according
to their several classes, to the gentlemen most conversant
with the same; and the numerous bibliographical works,
published since the catalogue of 1733, might be occasionally
referred to, according to the plan observed in the _Notitia
Editionum vel Primariae, &c., in Bibl. Bodl. Oxon._, 1795,
8vo.; which was judiciously drawn up by the Bishop of
London, and the Rev. Dr. William Jackson. I am aware that
the aged hands of the present venerable librarian of the
Bodleian library can do little more than lay the
foundation-stone of such a massive superstructure; but even
this would be sufficient to enrol his name with the
Magliabecchis and Baillets of former times--to entitle him
to be classed among the best benefactors to the library--and
to shake hands with its immortal founder, in that place
where are

et amoena vireta
Fortunatorum nemorum, sedesque beatae.

BONNIER. _Catalogue des livres de la Bibliotheque de
Bonnier._ Paris, 1800, 8vo. This catalogue is here
introduced to the bibliographer's notice in order to sharpen
his bibliomaniacal appetite to obtain one of the four copies
only which were printed upon LARGE PAPER of Dutch
manufacture. See _Cat. de Caillard_ (1808), no.
2596.----BOUTOURLIN. _Catalogue des livres de la
Bibliotheque de S.E.M. Le Comte de Boutourlin._ Paris (an.
xiii.), 1805, 8vo. Every