read, “Supplement au Dictionnaire de Moreri pour ce qui concerne la province de Normandie, et ses illustres.”  A short preface follows; then an ode “aux Grands Hommes de Normandie.”  It is executed in the manner of a dictionary, running in alphabetical order.  The first volume extends to the letter I, and is illustrated with scraps from newspapers, and a few portraits.  It is written pretty fully in double columns.  The portrait and biography of Bouzard form an admirable specimen of biographical literary memoirs.  The second volume goes to Z. The third volume is entitled “Les trois Siecles palinodiques, ou Histoire Generale des Palinods de Rouen, Dieppe, &c.—­by the same hand, with an equal quantity of matter.  It is right that such labours should be noticed, for the sake of all future BLISS-like editors of provincial literature.  There is another similar work, in 2 folio ms. volumes, relating to Coutance.

Before we again touch upon printed books, but of a later period, it may be right to inform you that the treasures of this Library suffered materially from the commotions of the Calvinists.  Those hot-headed interpreters of scripture destroyed every thing in the shape of ornament or elegance attached to book-covers; and piles of volumes, however sacred, or unexceptionable on the score of good morals, were consigned to the fury of the flames.  Of the remaining volumes which I saw, take the following very rapid sketch.  Of Hours, or Church Services, there is a prodigiously fine copy of an edition printed by Vostre, in 4to., upon paper, without date.  It is in the original ornamented cover, or binding, with a forest of rough edges to the leaves—­and doubtless the finest copy of the kind I ever saw.  Compared with this, how inferior, in every respect is a cropt copy of Kerver’s impression of a similar work, printed upon vellum!  This latter is indeed a very indifferent book; but the rough usage it has met with is the sole cause of such inferiority.  I was well pleased with a fair, sound copy of the Speculum Stultorum, in 4to., bl. letter, in hexameter and pentameter verses, without date.  Nor did I examine without interest a rare little volume entitled “Les Origines de quelques Coutumes anciennes, et de plusieurs facons de parler triviales.  Avec un vieux Manuscrit en vers, touchant l’Origine des Chevaliers Bannerets; printed at Caen in 1672, 12mo.:  a curious little work.  They have a fine (royal) copy of Walton’s Polyglot, with an excellent impression of the head; and a large paper copy of Stephen’s Greek Glossary; in old vellum binding, with a great number of ms. notes by Bochart.  Also a fine large paper Photius of 1654, folio.  But among their LARGE PAPERS, few volumes tower with greater magnificence than do the three folios of La Sainte Bible, printed by the Elzevirs at Amsterdam, in 1669.  They are absolutely fine creatures; of the stateliest dimensions