The bias of Dr. BURNEY’S learning and tastes in literature led him to a preference of the Greek classics far above the Latin. Naturally, his Library bore this character in counterpart. He aimed at collecting Greek authors—and especially the dramatists—in such a way that the collocation of his copies gave a sort of chronological view of the literary history of the books and of their successive recensions. For the tragedians, more particularly, his researches were brilliantly successful. Of _Æschylus_ he had amassed forty-seven editions; of _Sophocles_, one hundred and two; of _Euripides_, one hundred and sixty-six. His first publication was a sharp criticism (in the _Monthly Review_) on Mr. (afterwards Bishop) HUNTINGFORD’S Collection of Greek poems entitled _Monostrophica_. This was followed, in 1789, by the issue of an Appendix to SCAPULA’S Lexicon; and in 1807 by a collection of the correspondence of BENTLEY and other scholars. Two years later, he gave to students of Greek his _Tentamen de Metris ab Æschylo in choricis cantibus adhibitis_, and to the youthful theologians his meritorious abridgment of Bishop PEARSON’S _Exposition of the Creed_. In 1812, he published the Lexicon of PHILEMON. The only Church preferments enjoyed by Dr. BURNEY were the rectory of St. Paul, Deptford, near London, and that of Cliffe, also in Kent. His only theological publication—other than the abridgment of PEARSON—was a sermon which he had preached in St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1812. Late in life he was made a Prebendary of Lincoln. Like his father, and others of his family, Charles BURNEY was a very sociable man. He lived much with PARR and with PORSON, and, like those eminent scholars, he had the good and catholic taste which embraced in its appreciations, and with like geniality, old wine, as well as old books. He was less wise in nourishing a great dislike to cool breezes. ‘Shut the door,’ was usually his first greeting to any visitant who had to introduce himself to the Doctor’s notice; and it was a joke against him, in his later days, that the same words were his parting salutation to a couple of highwaymen who had taken his purse as he was journeying homewards in his carriage, and who were adding cruelty to robbery by exposing him to the fresh air when they made off. [Sidenote: CHOICE BOOKS IN BURNEY’S LIBRARY.] Some of Dr. BURNEY’S choicest books were obtained when the Pinelli Library was brought to England from Italy. The prime ornament of his manuscript Collection, a thirteenth century copy of the _Iliad_, of great beauty and rich in scholia, was bought at the sale of the fine Library of Charles TOWNELEY, Collector of the Marbles.