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Catalogue of the Johis Bylancls Library, Mosolsootor. 4 vole. (J.

E. Cornish, Manchester.)—This very handsome book is worthy of its subject, watch, indeed, has pre-eminently the "note" of magnifi- cence. Never was money more magnificently spent than it was in the gathering of this grand library; never was the result of spending given away with a finer generosity. The early English books, of which there is an almost unrivalled collection—more than half the extant Cartons, for instance, and fifty Wynkyn de Wordes—have a volume to themselves. The rest of the library, set forth in fine, bold type and sumptuous paper, fills three stout quartos, which number together within a score of two thousand pages.