of Barclay’s Apology printed by Baskerville (1765); a fine copy of the folio edition of Ben Johnson (1640); the Duke of Newcastle’s New Method to Dress Horses (1667); several volumes of the Maitland Club books, the catalogue of the Harleian MSS (1759); two tracts of Socinus (1618); the Foundations of Manchester (4 vols.); Daulby’s Rembrandt Catalogue; Weever’s Funeral Monuments (1631); Visconti’s Egyptian Antiquities (1837); Heylyn’s History of St. George (1633), and Nicholl’s History of English Poor Law.  There are also a considerable number of works of science and general literature of a more modern date.  The trustees of the British Museum gave about 150 works, relating to Greek, Egyptian, Syrian, Phoenician, and other antiquities, to various departments of natural science, and other interesting matters, the whole constituting a valuable contribution towards the restored library.  The Science and Art Department of South Kensington sent a selection of catalogues, chromo-lithographs, books of etchings, photographs, &c.  Dr. F.A.  Leo, of Berlin, sent a splendid copy of his valuable fac-simile of “Four Chapters of North’s Plutarch,” illustrating Shakespeare’s Roman plays, to replace his former gift-volume lost in the calamitous fire.  The volume is one of twenty-four copies, and the learned Professor added a printed dedication as a record of the fire and the loss.  Dr. Delius, of Bonn, Herr Wilhelm Oechelhaueser, of Dessau, and other German Shakespeare authors sent copies of their works.  Mr. J. Payne Collier offered copies of his rare quarto reprints of Elizabethan books, to replace those which had been lost.  Mr. Gerald Massey offered a copy of his rare volume on Shakespeare’s Sonnets, “because it is a Free Library.”  Mr. H. Reader Lack offered a set of the Patent Office volumes from the limited number at his disposal as Chief of the Patent Office.  Dr. Kaines, of Trinder Road, London, selected 100 volumes from his library for acceptance; Mrs. and Miss L. Toulmin Smith sent all they could make up of the works of Mr. J. Toulmin Smith, and of his father, Mr. W. Hawkes Smith, both natives of our town; Messrs. Low, Son, and Co., gave 120 excellent volumes; Messrs. W. and R. Chambers, Messrs. Crosby, Lockwood, and Co., and other publishers, valuable books; Mr. James Coleman his “Index to Pedigrees,” “Somerset House Registers,” and “William Penn Pedigrees;” Miss N. Bradley (Bath) the new reissue of Professor Ruskin’s works; Mr. H.W.  Adnitt (Shrewsbury) his reprint of Gough’s curious “History of Myddie,” and of Churchyard’s “Miserie of Flaunders,” and “The Four Ministers of Salop:”  Mr. H.F.  Osle presented a, fine collection of Art books, including Gruener’s great work, and Mr. J.H.  Stone made a valuable donation of the same kind.  The above are mere items in the list of generous donors, and gives but small idea of the many thousands of volumes which have streamed in from all parts.  Many indeed have been the valuable gifts and additions by purchase since the fire, one