The Trustees of Dr. Williams's Charity and Library in Gordon
Square have printed A Short Account of the Charity and Library to commemorate the bicentenary of the trust founded iu 1716. The Rev. R. T. Herford, Mr. S. K. Jones, and the Rev. Dr. Philip H. Wicksteed have prepared this interesting volume, which contains a memoir of Daniel Williams, the early Nonconformist divine who died in 1711 and left his estates in Wales, East Anglia, and London to be adminietered for the benefit of students and ministers and their widows. The public library which he had planned on a modest scale was opened in Red Lion Square in 1729 ; it was moved to Bloomsbury in 1805, and to its present home in 1890. It now con- tains sixty-six thousand volumes, and, principally as a lending library for students all over the country, fulfils a useful purpose.
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