Such are the particulars recorded by Mr. Theobald. When I met with them lately, I determined on asking a place for this Note in your valuable publication, thinking that its contents might be new to some of even your readers, and might form an acceptable page of topographical illustration. WILLIAM SIDNEY GIBSON. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 1851. PANSLAVIC LITERATURE, AND THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. There existed, even in ancient times, some connecting links between the _Panslavian_ and the _Anglo-Saxon_ races: the most important, the introduction of Wickliff's Bible translation into Czechia by Anne, sister of Wenceslaw IV., and wife of Richard II. of England,--an event rich in great and salutary consequences. In allusion to the Library of the British Museum, it seems to me that in former times the diplomatic agents of this country must have taken care to collect the rare and interesting works of the places where they temporarily resided; and that in this way the libraries of this country became enriched by an astounding stock of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Panslavic works, which subsequently merged some way or other in the national library. This, albeit hypothetical _genesis_ of that huge collection, will, I think, best explain its incompleteness and even _un-systematicity_ in former times; as there are some rare old works to be found, of which the concluding volume is wanting. But I shall not, on this occasion, _review_ a whole library, but confine myself to its late _exponent_ for the world-exhibition, described in the "_Short Guide to that Portion of the Library of Printed Books now open to the Public_, _May 1851_." In imitation of the National Library of Paris, a number of books have been publicly exhibited in the British Museum which, on account of their early date, rarity, costliness and splendour of printing, binding, or for certain interesting autographs, deserved general attention; thus forming an exemplified memorial and history of typographic art and enterprise. The show was a grand and instructive one, owing mostly to the specimens of the unmatched collection of the Grenville Library, the greatest gift ever bequeathed by an individual to a people. None could look without deep emotion on the set of Columbus' Letters, all printed during his lifetime (1493 _et seq._)--documents much adverted to by A. Humboldt in his _Examen Critique_ on the discovery of America. Of similar interest were the sets of first editions of Petrarca, Cervantes, Camoens--leaves invaluable to the thinker on human civilisation. Chinese, Indian, and Japanese specimens were also not wanting.