There are many errors, no doubt, to be found in Gibbon. I will mention one which may be entertaining, though I dare say Mr. Milman has found it out. In chap. 47. (and _see_ note 26.), Gibbon was too happy to make the most of the murder of the female philosopher Hypatia, by a Christian mob at Alexandria. But the account which he gives is more shocking than the fact. He seems not to have been familiar enough with Greek to recollect that [Greek: haneilon] means _killed_. Her throat was cut with an oyster-shell, because, for a reason which he has very acutely pointed out, oyster-shells were at hand; but she was clearly not "cut in pieces," nor, "her flesh scraped off the bones," till after she was dead. Indeed, there was no scraping from the bones at all. That they used oyster-shells is a proof that the act was not premeditated. Neither did she deserve the title of modest which Gibbon gives her. Her way of rejecting suitors is disgusting enough in Suidas. C.B. _Public Libraries_.--In looking through the Parliamentary Report on Libraries, I missed, though they may have escaped my notice, any mention of a valuable one in _Newcastle-on-Tyne_, "Dr. Thomlinson's;" for which a handsome building was erected early last century, near St. Nicholas Church, and a Catalogue of its contents has been published. I saw also, some years ago, a library attached to _Wimborne Minster_, which appeared to contained some curious books. The Garrison Library at _Gibraltar_ is, I believe, one of the most valuable English libraries on the continent of Europe. W.C.T. Edinburgh, March 30. 1850. * * * * * NOSCE TEIPSUM,--AN EXCEPTION. (_FROM THE CHINESE OF CONFUCIUS, OR ELSEWHERE._) I've not said so to _you_, my friend--and I'm not going-- _You_ may find so many people better worth knowing. RUFUS. * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS. NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. Mr. Thorpe is preparing for publication a Collection of the Popular Traditions or Folk Lore of Scandinavia and Belgium, as a continuation of his _Northern Mythology and Superstitions_, now ready for the press.