In Knight's _Life of Dean Colet_ (8vo., London, 1724), founder of St. Paul's School, there is a catalogue of the books in the library of the school at the date specified. The number of the volumes is added up at the end of the catalogue, in MS., and the total amount is 663 volumes. The latest purchases bear the date of 1723, and are:--Pierson (sic) _On the Creed_, Greenwood's _English Grammar_, and Terentius _In usum Delphini_. The books for the most part are of a highly valuable and standard character. Does the library still exist? have many additions been made to it up to the present time? and is there a printed catalogue of it? J. M. Oxford. * * * * * TRENCH ON PROVERBS. (Vol. viii., pp. 387. 519.) The error, which Luther was the first to fall into, in departing from the anciently received version of Ps. cxxvii. 2., Mendelsohn adopted; but no translator of eminence has followed these two Hebraists; although some critics have been carried away by their authority to the proper Jewish notion of "gain," and not sleep, being the subject. Luther's version--"Denn seinen Freunden gibt er _es_ schlafend"--was certainly before the revisers of our authorised version of James I.; but was rejected, I consider, as ungrammatical and false: _ungrammatical_, because the transitive verb "give" (_gibt_) has no accusative noun; and _false_, because he supplies, without authority, the place of the missing noun by the pronoun "it" (_es_), there being no antecedent to which this _it_ refers. Mendelsohn omits the _it_ in his Hebrew comment, supplied however unauthorisedly by MR. MARGOLIOUTH in his translation of such comment. But Mendelsohn introduces the "_es_" (it), in his German version (Berlin, 1788, dedicated to Ramler), without however any authority from the Hebrew original of this Psalm. He is therefore at variance with himself. And, farther, he has omitted altogether the important word [Hebrew: KEIN] (_so_ or _thus_), rendered "_denn_" (for) by Luther. As to the "unintelligible authorised version," I must premise that no version has yet had so large an amount of learning bestowed on it as the English one; indeed it has fairly beaten out of the field all the versions of all other sections of Christians. The difficulty of the English version arises from its close adherence to the oriental letter; but if we put the scope of this Psalm into the vernacular, such difficulty is eliminated.