ade acquainted with still more
curious excerpts. In my humble judgment the present work is
a model of extraction of the marrow of old MSS. It may be
worth adding, the plates in the sixth volume are singular,
curious and beautiful.----DU ROI. _Accounts and Extracts of
the Manuscripts in the Library of the King of France.
Translated from the French_, London, 1789, 8vo., two vols.
"The French Monarch [Louis XVI.], in the publication now
before us, has set an example to all Europe, well worthy to
be followed"--says the opening of the translator's preface.
The present volumes contain a translation of only twenty-two
articles from the preceding work; and very strongly may they
be recommended to the curious philologist, as well as to the
thorough-bred bibliomaniac.----ROEVER. _Bibliotheca
Roeveriana, sive Catalogus Librorum qui studiis inservierunt
Matthiae Roeveri._ Lug. Bat. 1806, 8vo., _two parts_. From the
elegant and pleasing Latin preface to this most carefully
compiled catalogue, we learn that the owner of the books
lived to his 82d year--and [what must be a peculiar
gratification to Bibliomaniacs] that he beat Pomponius
Atticus in the length of time during which he never had
occasion to take physic; namely, 50 years! Roever's life
seemed to glide away in rational tranquillity, and in total
seclusion from the world; except that he professed and
always shewed the greatest kindness to his numerous, and
many of them helpless, relatives--"vix in publicum prodiit,
nisi cultus Divini externi aut propinquorum caussa," p. xv.
His piety was unshaken. Like the venerable Jacob Bryant, his
death was hastened in consequence of a contusion in his leg
from a fall in endeavouring to reach a book.----ROTHELIN.
_Catalogue des livres de feu M'L. Abbe D'Orleans de
Rothelin. Par G. Martin_, Paris, 1746, 8vo. This catalogue
of the library of the amiable and learned Abbe Rothelin,
"known (says Camus) for his fine taste for beautiful books,"
is judiciously drawn up by Martin, who was the De Bure of
his day. A portrait of its owner faces the title-page. It
was the Abbe Rothelin who presented De Boze with the
celebrated '_Guirlande de Julie_'--a work which afterwards
came into the Valliere collection, and was sold for 14,510
livres,--"the highest price