Can any of your readers inform me if this is correct, and whether the nation have really paid for what has always been considered a most worthy and munificent present from a monarch to his subjects? I trust to hear that the editor has been misinformed. J. S. L. [The nation certainly never paid one farthing for this munificent present. The Russian Government offered, we believe, to purchase the library; and this is probably the origin of the statement in the note quoted by our correspondent.] Replies. HUGH HOLLAND AND HIS WORKS. An accidental circumstance having led me to re-peruse the article entitled _Hugh Holland and his works_ (Vol. ii., p. 265.), I feel myself called on, as a lover of facts, to notice some of the statements which it contains. 1. "He was born at Denbigh in 1558." He was born at Denbigh, but not in 1558. In 1625 he thus expressed himself: "Why was the fatall spinster so vnthrifty? To draw my third four yeares to tell and fifty!" 2. "In 1582 he matriculated at Baliol College, Oxford." He did not quit Westminster School till 1589. If he ever pursued his studies at Baliol College, it was some ten years afterwards. 3. "About 1590 he succeeded to a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge." In 1589 he was elected from Westminster to a _scholarship_ in Trinity College, Cambridge--not to a _fellowship_. At a later period of life, he may have succeeded to a fellowship. 4. "Holland published two works: 1. _Monumenta sepulchralia Sancti Pauli_, London, 1613, 4to. 2. _A cypress garland_ etc., London, 1625, 4to." Hugh Holland was not the compiler of the first-named work: the initials H. H admit of another interpretation. This, however, is a very pardonable oversight. I could give about twenty authorities for ascribing the work to Hugh Holland. 5. The dates assigned to the _Monumenta Sancti Pauli_ are "1613, 1616, 1618, and 1633." Here are three errors in as many lines. The _first_ edition is dated in 1614. The edition of 1633, which is entitled _Ecclesia Sancti Pavli illvstrata_, is the _second_. No other editions exist. 6. "Holland also printed a copy of Latin verses before Alexander's _Roxana_, 1632." No such work exists. He may have printed verses before the _Roxana_ of W. Alabaster, who was his brother-collegian. The authorities which I have consulted are Fuller, Anthony à Wood, Henry Holland, son of the celebrated Philemon Holland, Hugh Holland, and Joseph Welch; and in submitting the result of my researches to critical examination, I must commend the writer of the article in question for his continued efforts to produce new facts, and to explode current errors.