DR. WILLIAMS'S LIBRARY.
[To TED Emma or TEE " drzersroa."1 Sta,—The recent publication of the Short Account of the Charity and Library Established under the Will of the late Rev. Daniel Williams, D.D., gives an opportunity for an expression of gratitude-on the part of the many readers whom he has benefited during the last two hundred years. The account of Dr. Williame and his Trust, and of the Library, its benefactors; its catalognes, and its various homes, is full of interest to book-lovers, The author may well say that Dr. Williams's Library "still has a special place to fill, a past worth preserving, a present worth maintaining." The value of the book is much increased by some excellent illustrations; among these none is of- greater interest than that which shows the reading-room et Gordon Square, the present home of the Library. In this is seen the figure of the Assistant-Librarian, Mice Barley, who has been for many years peat the link between the readers and their long-ago benefactor. To many she has been the ideal librarian, who has known how to combine absolute fidelity to her trust with unfailing kindness and consideration to students. When Bishop Bury, of Durham, was writing his Philobiblon with its chapters "Of showing duo propriety in the custody of books," and " Of the manner of lending all our books to students," he must have wished for such an official ae Dr. Williams's Library- has for the last thirty-one years had the good fortune to secure.—I am, Sir, AG.,
Westfield College, University of London.
CAROLTER A. J. SEUL.
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