The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, has long
since developed into a learned quarterly of high importance. The January number (Longmans. 2s. net) contains a most attractive paper by Professor Conway on " The Philosophy of Virgil," showing by many examples how the poet was " always seeing two sides to every human event "—joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain as inseparable. Professor Tout contributes a valuable and stimulating essay on " The Study of Mediaeval Chronicles," and Professor Powicke completes his account of Allred of Rievaulx and his biographer, Walter Daniel. Dr. Rendel Harris discusses " Stoic Origins Of the Fourth Gospel." The editor, Mr. Guppy, describes the refounding of the University Library at Louvain ; Mr. Guppy had since 1915 been organizing the appeal for books to replace those wantonly destroyed by the Germans, and had stored and catalogued the many thousands of volumes that were sent to him. It is stated that the John Rylands Library is undertaking the custody of the muniments, including many early charters, of a well-known Cheshire land- owner who has had to part with his ancestral estates. The Library has also acquired Miss Horniman's collections of material for the history of her spirited management of the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester—a city which, as the editor remarks, " was prepared to do anything for this courageous lady except go to her theatre in sufficient numbers to prevent it from becoming a picture palace."
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