each other and reached Mr. Strawbridge's some time after the others arrived and too late to grace the picture for the frontispiece of the Library Journal. An appetizing supper was spread on the lawn in the most delightful and picturesque manner. The members of the A. L. A. put the finishing touches to this scene, a few glimpses of which our photographer has saved for us. A stroll was made through the grounds, and a visit was paid to the spotless stables where not a wisp of hay was out of place. After thanking Mr. and Mrs. Strawbridge for their hospitality we sought our carriages for the homeward journey, the highest seats being secured first.

A circuit of West Fairmount Park was made on the way home, passing through picturesque Chamounix and around Belmont Mansion. A pause was made in front of the mansion to view the park and city, which stretched out in a long vista beneath us. The coaches wound around Horticultural Hall and Memorial Hall, that all the party might have the pleasure of seeing the gardens there laid out.

A card was found in one of the tally-hoswe will not say whose name it bore lest the owner should claim it with this inscription on the back:

"Hip Hoo Ray Phil-a-del-phi-a! Twenty-first Annual

A. L. A."

Eight o'clock was the time set for the concert of Wednesday evening. As the coaching party did not break up until that hour, no one reached the Drexel Institute until nine, and many much later. The music furnished by Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Moulton, and Mr. Kroeger was most enjoyable. A reception, with dancing in the central court, followed. These dissipations proved almost too much for one day's pleasure, and the festivities of the evening ceased at the early hour of II.

The entire program of Thursday — which should have extended into the evening-was crowded into the day, so that the dignified A. L. A. might indulge in a trolley ride to Willow Grove Park. Staid and sober Chestnut street witnessed another gay scene on Thursday evening. The curbstone on either side of the street was lined with librarians patiently awaiting the arrival of the cars. A shout of joy went up from the crowd when "America," radi

ant within and without with red, white, and blue lights, turned the corner. Three other cars followed with no mark of distinction but the little sign "Special car." "Monitor," all decked in white, brought up the rear. It was a jolly party that whirled along the old York Road, causing much consternation among the horses and furnishing much amusement to the picnic parties that were on the return.

A rush was made to the merry-go-round on our arrival at the park. The "shoot-the-chutes," the biograph, the scenic railway soon held none but librarians. One young lady asked if some one would not please go in the biograph first and tell her if the pictures were proper for an A. L. A. member to gaze upon. We never heard whether that young lady saw the biograph afterwards, but we hope she did. A small but select few preferred the music of Damrosch to these frivolities. The electrical fountain assumed all sorts of fantastic shapes and variegated colors at the most unexpected intervals. Here and there a tree appeared dotted with many-colored lights, giving a fairylike appearance to the scene. Everywhere the librarians found something new to enjoy until the arrival of our cars, which came all too soon. Nonsense verses and college songs thoroughly enlivened the journey home. Of jingles like the following, one car seemed to have a neverending supply:

"There was a young lady named Nell,
Who considered herself quite a belle,
She sat on the sand

And squeezed her own hand
And never discovered the sell."

Could the reading public but see that imposing organization, the American Library Association, on an occasion like this, they might be able to realize that librarians really know how to throw themselves into enjoyment with as much freedom and abandon as boys or girls.

Whenever we pass the Aldine we think of that too short happy week when the A. L. A. were our guests. The remembrance of those days, and the lively chats we held with librarians from the other end of the country, make us feel that Georgia and Louisiana, Montana and Colorado, are not so far away after all, while the "Librarians" corner of the Library Journal, and the "Notes by the way" of Public Libraries, still keep us in touch with them all.

AMERICANA.

From the Collection of the Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker.

BARLOW, JOEL. The Columbiad : a poem. Philadelphia: Fry & Kammerer. 1807. 4to. The finest specimen of American bookmaking up to that time.

BIBLIA, das ist: Die Heilige Schrift Altes und Neues Testaments. Germantown: Gedruckt bey Christoph Saur. 1743. 4to.

The first Bible printed in America in a European language.

BIBLE, The Holy, containing the Old and New Testaments. Philadelphia: Printed by R. Aitken. 1782. 2 vols., 12mo.

The first English Bible printed in America. BRAGHT, T. J. van. Der Blutige Schau-Platz, oder Martyrer Spiegel der Tauffs-Gesinnten. Ephrata: Drucks und Verlags der Bruederschaft. 1748. Folio.

This is the celebrated Ephrata Martyr Book, "the greatest literary production of America," and the largest book issued from the Ephrata press.

CATALOGUE of all the books printed in the United States up to 1804. 12mo.

A very rare pamphlet. Of the titles here given, 335 were published at Philadelphia, 313 at Boston, and 189 at New York.

Ein CHRISTLICHES Gesang-Buch. Manuscript. 1760. Folio.

The hymn-book of the Schwenkfelders is the best specimen of their manuscripts known to those familiar with the subject. It was written by one of their ministers, Hoffman, between 1758 and 1760, in Pennsylvania, and was bound there.

Ein GEISTLICHES Magazien. Germantown: Gedruckt bey Christoph Saur. 1764. 8vo.

Nos. 1 to 50 of the earliest American religious magazine, containing the earliest American essay upon school teaching.

HYMN-Book from the Ephrata Cloister. Manuscript. 1745. Folio.

A beautifully written and illuminated manuscript volume, containing the music to the "WeyrauchsHügel," infrà. One of the latest specimens of manuscript illumination.

Phila

delphia Printed by Andrew Bradford. 1728. Folio.

The second compilation of the Laws of Pennsylvania. The interest of this book is enhanced by the blank leaves inserted by the original owner, which are of paper made at the Rittenhouse paper-mill on the Wissahickon, the first in America.

LINCOLN, Abraham. Ms. fee-book of the firm of Lincoln & Herndon, 1847. MUHLENBERG, Frederick Augustus. Original ms. of an unpublished book. Folio.

F. A. Muhlenberg was President of the First Congress of the U. S. PAMPHLETS on Electricity. Collection of four pamphlets on electricity. 8vo.

This is Benjamin Franklin's own collection, and the titles are indexed on the fly-leaf in his own handwriting. The pamphlets are filled with references to Franklin's discoveries, and one of the pamphlets was presented to him by the author, who calls him "Father of electricity.", PARADISISCHES Wunder-Spiel. Ephratæ: Sumptibus Societatis. 1754. Folio.

This Paradisiacal Wonder Play is a hymn-book of the Ephrata cloister, containing 726 hymns of a very mystical character, of which 441 were written by Johann Conrad Beissel (1690-1768), who organized the sect of Seventh-day Baptists, and subsequently the semi-monastic" Order of the Solitary," at Ephrata, about twenty miles from Reading, Pennsylvania. The text begins on the reverse of the title, each page containing usually six lines of type, every two lines being divided by spaces of three inches, which are occupied by manuscript musical notes for four voices. The end of each musical phrase is marked by more or less elaborate penwork in two or three colors, amounting sometimes to an illumination, generally in the shape of a floral design. This was the work of sisters of the society specially appointed for that duty. See the WeyrauchsHügel, infra.

PASTORIUS, Franz Daniel. Disputatio inauguralis de Rasura Documentorum

pro Licentia Summos in utroque jure Honores ac Privilegia Doctoralia more Majorum rite capessendi d. 23, Nov. 1676. Altorffi. 8vo.

Thesis submitted by Pastorius, the founder of Germantown, in order to obtain the degree of "Juris Utrusque Licentiatus." This is the only copy known to exist.

PLOCKHOY, PIETER CORNELISZ.

Kort en klaer

ontwerp dienende tot een onderling Accoort, om den arbeyd, onrust en moeyelijckheyt, van Alderley-hand-wercxs-luyden te verlichten door een onderlinge Compagnie ofte Volck-planting . . . aen de Zuyt-revier in Nieu-neder-land op te rechten. . . . 'tAmsterdam, 1662. 4to, 8 leaves.

"A short and clear project of a mutual agreement in order to relieve the colony to be founded on the South River in New Netherland." The only copy in this country of this very rare tract, which is the first book written by a colonist on the Delaware. Plockhoy's colony was destroyed by the English in 1664. WASHINGTON, George. Autograph and bookplate, on Some observations on the Indian natives of this continent, Philadelphia, 1784, (with other pamphlets.)

WEYRAUCHS - HOGEL, Zionitischer. Germantown: Gedruckt bey Christoph Saur, 1739. 16mo.

The first book printed in German type in America, and the first book from Saur's press. It is the largest and most important collection of the Ephrata Cloister hymns, and is dedicated "To all solitary Turtle-doves cooing in the wilderness, as a spiritual harp, playing in the many tunes of divine visitation." This was the author's own copy. For the music to these hymns see Paradisisches Wunder-Spiel, suprà.

BINDINGS.

Lent by Samuel P. Avery, Esq., of New York. Dichtkundige ALMANACH voor het jaar 1781. Te Amsterdam. 32mo.

A fine example of needlework binding of the end of the 18th century.

Nieuwe Nederlandsche ALMANACH, 1795. recht.

32mo.

Ut

Full silver binding, with the number of days in each month, times of rising and setting of the sun, etc., engraved on the sides, and a dial with movable hand to show the day of the month.

Vita, e Miracoli di S. ANTONIO di Padova. Genova, 1646. 12mo.

A good example of panelled binding on solid wooden boards.

Speculum beati BERNHARDI Abbatis de honestate vite. [Probably printed by Fust & Schoeffer, circa 1465.] 12mo.

The binding of this rare tract is a very good specimen of modern blind-tooling, by Pagnant, full brown crushed morocco.

is, 1868. 12mo.

Bound by Ch. Meunier in full brown morocco, in the covers of which have been inlaid two cloisonné medallions by the author. The margins and blank leaves are decorated with many original water-colors by Félix Régamey.

CHRONIQUES françoises de Jacques Gondar. Paris, n. d. [circa 1830.] 12mo.

A charming reprint of a 15th century ms., with colored illustrations in imitation of the manuscript decorations of the time. The binding is stamped velvet, "romantique," of the same date as the book.

CICERO. Cato Major. Lutetiæ, 1758.

32mo.

Bound by Stikeman & Co., New York. A beautiful specimen of American mosaic work in red and blue, with white vellum doublé, gilt tooling throughout. A HELPE vnto Deuotion. London, 1613. 16m0. Full calf binding of the time, gauffred edges. HUMPHREYS, H. N. Sentiments and similes of Shakespeare. London, 1857. 8vo.

A curious moulded composition-binding, first made in England about this date.

LA FRESNAIE Vavqvelin, Les Diverses Poesies du Sievr de. Caen, 1612.

A fine example of this edition. Bound by TrautzBauzonnet in full crushed morocco, blue, with red doublé, gilt tooling.

LUCRETIUS. De rerum natura. Lugduni, 1546. 16mo.

Paris, 1876. 12mo.

The third published volume of Tennyson's poems. In a beautiful and characteristic binding by CobdenSanderson, in full brown crushed levant, gilt tooling. TREMELLIUS, Immanuel. In Hoseam interpretatio. Heidelberg, 1563. 12mo.

Tooled binding of the period, with the arms of Frederick, Duke Palatine.

Catalogue of editions of WALTON & Cotton's Angler. New York: The Grolier Club. 1893. 12mo.

Bound in green Japanese shark-skin, with border of the skin of the Florida gar-pike, with a very hard and highly-polished surface like enamel. Bound by Tiffany & Co., New York. The book-mark has a jade-stone fish for pendant.

WOHLRIECHENDES Rozengärtl. 16mo.

Kempten, 1699.

A silver binding, with one clasp, by Thellot, of Augsburg.

CRUIKSHANKIANA.

From the Collection of the Rittenhouse Club. BOMBASTES furioso: a burlesque tragic opera, by William Barnes Rhodes; with designs by Cruikshank. London, 1830. 16m0.

The first of his temperance series.

The CAT'S tail: being the history of Childe Merlin. By the Baroness de Katzleben. Edinburgh, 1831. 16mo.

Etchings by Cruikshank.

engraved by George Cruikshank. 1828. 12mo.

London,

The QUEEN'S Matrimonial Ladder. London, 1820. 8vo.

A satire on the trial of Queen Caroline, published on her side and against the king.

vols. 12mo.

n. d.

Profusely illustrated by Cruikshank. The COMIC Alphabet. London. CRUIKSHANKIANA : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank. London. n. d. Folio.

Caricatures in his earlier, Gillray style.

The DRUNKARD'S Children: a sequel to The
Bottle, in eight plates. London, 1848.
EGAN, Pierce. Life in London. London, 1822.
8vo.

With many colored plates "drawn and engraved by I. R. and G. Cruikshank."

Sir John FALSTAFF: 20 etchings by Cruikshank. London, 1857. 8vo.

Der FREISCHÜTZ Travestie; with 12 etchings by Cruikshank. London, 1824. 8vo. GREENWICH Hospital: a series of naval sketches descriptive of the life of a man-ofwar's man; with coloured illustrations by George Cruikshank. London, 1826. 4to. GRIMM'S Popular Stories; with etchings by Cruikshank. London, 1823.

4to.

the works of George Cruikshank. London, 1871. 3 vols., 4to.

SCRAPS and Sketches of George Cruikshank. London, 1827. Obl. folio.

TOм Thumb: a burletta, altered from Henry Fielding by Kane O'Hara; with designs by George Cruikshank. London, 1837. 16mo.

The TOOTHACHE, imagined by Horace Mayhew and realized by George Cruikshank. London, n. d.

12mo.

GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS.

From the Collection of Ashhurst Bowie, dec'd, now the property of R. H. Bayard Bowie, Esq. ELIANUS, Claudius. Varia Historiæ. Romæ, 1545. 4to.

A large-paper copy of the editio princeps. According to Dr. Harwood, "This first edition contains several Greek authors that were never reprinted." Harles calls it "A rare edition and not to be despised." ELIANUS Tacticus. De militaribus ordinibus instituendis more Græcorum. Venetiis, apud Spinellos, 1552. Sm. 4to.

The first separate edition, although printed in 1532 at Paris by Vascosan at the end of Thomas Magister. This 1552 edition is much the better, and has many curious woodcuts.

ESCHINES Socraticus. Dialogi tres. dami, 1711.

Amstelo

These dialogues "are not genuine remains." Athenæus in the Deipnosophists (book xiii., c. 94) gives schines a terribly bad character, and charges that Xantippe, after the death of Socrates, gave some of her husband's writings to Eschines, who coolly put them forth under his own name.

ÆSCHYLUS. Tragœdiæ.
Stephanus. 1557. 4to.

Paris Henricus

The fourth edition of Eschylus, but Dibdin calls it "An excellent and beautiful edition, and much more valuable than any of the preceding." As many as 1275 verses of the "Agamemnon "were printed for the first time in this edition from a manuscript. ESOPUS. Fabulæ. Basilea: Frobenius. 1518.

Froben was a learned German printer and warm personal friend of Erasmus, all of whose works he printed. The title-page and device to the colophon are designed by Holbein. For another copy of these designs see "Agapetus," also printed by Froben in this same year, 1518.

ESOPUS. Fabulæ. Parmæ. 1547.

This copy belonged to the celebrated Libri, and was sold with the choicer portion of his library in London in 1859.

ESOPUS. Fabulæ; with reflections by M. le Chevalier Lestrange. Amstelodami: Roger.

AGATHIAS. Historia Justiniani Imperatoris ; accesserunt Agathiæ Epigrammata. Lugduni Batavorum: Plantin.

1594.

This unfinished history contains many important facts concerning one of the most eventful periods of Roman history. This copy has a Latin translation and is the editio princeps in Greek. APPIANUS. Romanæ Historia. Paris: Carolus Stephanus. 1551. Folio.

Editio princeps in Greek; from two mss. in the library of the King of France. "According to Chevillier, C. Stephens published but two works in the Greek language-the present edition of Appian and a 4to Greek testament. The name of Charles Stephens does not often occur in bibliography, and those who cherish scarce works will do well to treasure the productions of this elegant scholar and printer."-Dibdin, Gr. and Lat. Class.

The second edition of Aristophanes, but the first to contain Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusa, which were omitted in the editio princeps by Aldus, 1498. ARISTOTELES. Cyromancia. Ulm, 1490.

A treatise on chiromancy, or divination by the hand. ATHENAEUS. Deipnosophistæ. Venetiis: Aldus. 1514. Folio.

Editio princeps. A beautiful book and one of the scarcest of the Aldine classics, although with many errors and imperfections from a critical point of view. BELLUM et excidium Trojanum. Lipsiæ: Michael Rudiger. 1699.

This "war and destruction of Troy" is curiously illustrated, as may be seen from an inspection of the plate concerning the wooden horse, and Sinon the Greek who deluded the Trojans into drawing the horse into the city. Cassandra, whose prophecies were disregarded, and Priam looking on her as a mad woman and causing her to be locked up in prison, should be

considered.

BOETHIUS. De Arithmetica. Augsburg, 1488.

Editio princeps, and a book of extreme scarcity. It is generally described as printed at Venice, but the colophon explains that the printing was by Ratdolt, formerly of Venice and later of Augsburg. Dibdin gives the date as 1487.

CATO, Dionysius. Moralissimus Cato cum elegantissimo commento. Basileæ, 1486.

This work has been attributed to various great authors, Seneca, Boethius, etc. It is quoted by Chaucer, was translated by Caxton, and if it may be called a "classic" Franklin's edition, 1735, Englished by Logan, must be regarded as the first translation of a classic which was both made and printed in the American Colonies.

HORATIUS. Opera; cum commentario Landini. Venetiis, 1486.

Landinus was a learned critic, and his commentary on Horace is highly esteemed. The editio princeps is supposed to have been printed at Milan by Zarotus in 1740. JUSTINUS Frontinus. Des Hochberümptesten Geschicht Schreybers Justini. Augsburg,

us Probus. ing to Dibdin.

A very scarce and curious edition, accordPETRONIUS Arbiter. Satyrici fragmenta quæ extant. Venetiis: Bernardinus de Vitalibus. 1499.

Very rare, but not the first edition, although formerly supposed to be so. The real editio princeps is at the end of the Panegyricus of Pliny the younger, 1476. PHALARIS, Tyrant of Agrigentum. Epistolæ. Oxonii, 1695.

These Epistles have been proved spurious, but their publication by Boyle led to a literary battle royal, splendidly described in Disraeli's "Quarrels of authors." Bentley denied their authenticity, and had some personal feelings besides, although Boyle never himself asserted their genuineness and repudiated Bentley's denial as an insult.

PHALARIS. Epistole. [Parma,] 1471.

The Epistles translated into Italian by B. Fontio. A rare and beautiful copy, with rubricated capitals. PINDARUS. Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia; Callimachi Hymni; Dionysius de Situ Orbis, etc. Venetiis: Aldus Manutius. 1513.

Editio princeps. The preface by Aldus is very interesting, giving a sketch of the war that ravaged Italy and suspended his typographical labors, with a review of what he had already done and a sketch of his probable future efforts. He says he had already exercised the art of printing twenty years, which would show that he began about 1493. The pagination of this book is unusual, being on right-hand corners of the verso

pages.

PLAUTUS. Comici classici comediæ . . . [Paris: printed by G. Le Rouge for] D. Roce. n. d. 2 vols. in 1. 8vo.

This edition is "of extraordinary rarity." Besides the device of D. Roce each volume bears the red fleurde-lis of the Giuntas. It is the rarest of the Aldine and Giunta counterfeits, and is not mentioned by Renouard. PLAUTUS. Comœdiæ. Mediolani: Uldericus Scinzenzeler. 1490.

PLAUTUS. The "Menæchmi" and "Bacchides" translated into German. Augsburg, 1518. PLINIUS Cæcilius Secundus. Epistolæ. Mediolani: P. de Lavagna. 1478. Folio.

The fourth edition, according to Dibdin, and one of very few printed in the 15th century. SALLUSTIUS. Opera. Venetiis: Aldus.

1521.

The second and best of the Aldine editions of Sallust. This copy came from the library of the crusty satirical poet Du Lorens (1583-1655), and contains his autograph. He was renowned for his reckless extravagance, fine library, collection of pictures, satirical verses, and quarrels with his wife, for whom, on her death, he composed the well-known epitaph:

"Ci git ma femme. Ah! qu'elle est bien Pour son repos et pour le mien!" TERENTIUS. Comœdiæ. Venetiis: Lazarus Soardus.

1511.

A very scarce edition, "A book which," Dr. Askew says, may be numbered among the most rare." Besides the comedies of Terence it contains "Vict. Faustus de Comœdiâ; et Benedict Philologus de Terentii Comoediis."

GROLIER CLUB PUBLICATIONS.

Lent by Carl Edelheim, Esq. BURY, Richard de. Philobiblon. 3 vols. New York: The Grolier Club. 1889. CONTRIBUTIONS to English bibliography: Catalogue of original and early editions of some of the poetical and prose works of English writers from Langland to Wither. Printed at New York for The Grolier Club. 1893.