and indeed has been already observed upon—­as a species of heresy.  The Society assemble to a “dejeune a la fourchette,” about twelve o’clock:  instead of to a “seven o’clock dinner,” as do the London Roxburghers:  whereby their constitutions and pockets are less affected.  The other thing, to observe upon, is, that they do not print (and publish among themselves) such very strange, and out-of-the way productions, as do the London Roxburghers.  For truly, of some of the latter, it may be said with the anonymous poet in the Adversaria of Barthius,

Verum haec nee puer edidici, nee tradita patre
Accepi, nee Aristotelis de moribus umquam
Librum, aut divini Platonis dogmata legi.

                                          Edit.  Fabri. 1624, col. 345, vol. i.

And why is it thus?  Because these reprints are occasionally taken (quoting Caspar Barthius himself, in the xxth chapter of his iid book of Adversaria, Edit.  Ead.) “ex libro egregie obscuro et a blattis tineisque fere confecto.”  But, on the other hand, they are perfectly harmless: 

Sweet without soure, and honny without gall: 

as Spenser observes in his Colin Clout’s come home again:  edit.
1595:  sign.  E.F.  Or, as is observed in Les Illustrations de France,
edit. 1513, 4to. litt. goth.: 

      Le dedens nest, ne trop cler, ne trop brun,
      Mais delectable a veoir...comme il me semble. Sign.  Cii. rev.

A genuine disciple of the Roxburghe Club will always exclaim “delectable a veoir” let the contents of the book be “cler,” or “brun.”  Nor will such enthusiastic Member allow of the epithets of “hodg-podge, gallimaufry, rhapsody,” &c. which are to be found in the “Transdentals General,” of Bishop Wilkins’s famous “Essay towards a real character and a philosophical language:" edit. 1668, fol. p. 28—­as applicable to his beloved reprints!  I annex the names of the Members of the Societe des Bibliophiles, as that club was first established.

1.  Le Marquis de Chateaugiron, President. 2.  Guilbert de Pixerecours, Secretaire. 3.  Le Chevalier Walckenaer, Membre de l’Institut, Tresorier. 4.  Alph. de Malartic, Maitre des Requetes. 5.  Durand de Lancon. 6.  Edouard de Chabrol. 7.  Berard, Maitre des Requetes. 8.  Le Vcte. de Morel-Vinde, Pair de France. 9.  Madame la Duchesse de Raguse, (par courtoisie.) 10.  Pensier. 11.  Comte Juste de Noailles. 12.  Le Baron Hely d’Oisel, Conseiller d’etat. 13.  Le Marquis Scipion du Nocere, Officier Superieur du Garde du Corps. 14.  Hippolyte de la Porte. 15.  De Monmerque, Conseiller a la Cour Royale. 16.  Coulon, a Lyon. 17.  Le Duc de Crussol. 18.  Le Comte d’Ourches, a Nancy. 19.  Le Chevalier Langles, Membre de l’Institut. 20.  Duriez, a Lille. 21.  Le Marquis