20 MAY 1865, page 18

Libraries And Their Founders.*

Ma. EDWARDS is the elder Disraeli of libraries. He has already written their lives; this time he gives us their curiosities and their genealogy ; we shall soon have their......

Mr. Tom Taylor's Life And Times Of Sir Joshua Reynolds.*

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS was born in 1723, the year of Sir Christopher Wren's death. He died aged sixty-nine in 1792, the year in which Benjamin West was elected President of the......