vi. Half-burned copy of a Russian translation of the _Pickwick Papers_. Found in the Redan at Sebastopol, when that battery was stormed on Sept. 9, 1855. Given by Rev. F. J. Holt Beever in 1856. 15. Portrait, on a large roll, of the late Emperor of China, seated, with a bow and arrow in his hands. Above is an autograph inscription by the Emperor, in verse, in praise of archery. Brought by Col. Rigaud from the 'Summer Palace.' 16. Another glass case, containing:-- i. A series of carved and coloured ivory tablets, representing Chinese life and manners, partly broken; with some grotesque figures, probably of deities, carved in wood. Believed to have been bequeathed by Rawlinson. ii. A series of small Chinese paintings on ivory. From the Douce collection. iii. Three sets of wooden roundels[389], or trenchers, of which two are round (numbering thirty plates), the other square (numbering twelve); with mottos, in the former case in verse, in the latter consisting of precepts from the Bible. One of the round sets belonged, in 1599, to Queen Elizabeth. The verses are sometimes humorous, sometimes moral, and strongly dehortatory from marriage; not, however, out of any flattering deference to the condition or supposed inclination of the 'Virgin Queen,' but chiefly in accordance with the opposite view taken by some hard-hearted misogynist. Of the two classes of motto, let these stand as specimens:-- 'If that a bachelor thou bee Keepe thou so, still be ruled by mee, Leaste that repentance all to late Reward thee with a broken pate.' 'Content thyselfe with thyn estate, And send noo poor wight from thi gate: For why this councell I thee give To learne to die and die to lyve.' iv. A large set of wax impressions of seals. See p. 183. 17. Model, in wood, of the Temple at Pæstum. Carved by Mr. Thomas Wyatt, of Oxford, about 1830. [374] Many autographs of distinguished literary men are found in the old Registers of all the persons admitted to read in the Library, since in these the readers themselves generally entered their own names. The first 'Liber admissorum' contains the names of both graduates and non-academics, the names in the first case being only in part autograph; it commences about the year 1610, and ends, in the case of graduates, arranged under their several colleges, about 1676; in the case of strangers, at 1692. The second Register, which is 'peregrinorum et aliorum admissorum' alone, begins at 1682 and ends at 1833. The first existing register of books used by readers begins Jan. 3, 1647-8, and ends Dec. 30, 1649. The following are some of the names, of some special mark, which are found in the Admission-books:--