P. 61. _De Quincey._--'The few shelves which would hold all the true classics extant might receive as many more of the like as there is any chance that the next two or three centuries could produce, without burthening the select and leisurely scholar with a sense of how much he had to read.'--C. PATMORE. _Principle in Art: William Barnes._ P. 63. _Temple._--Sir William Temple's historic dispute with Wotton and Bentley, in which he had the assistance of Charles Boyle, afterwards Earl of Orrery, provoked Swift's _Battle of the Books_. Compare Boileau's _La Lutrin_. P. 63. _Swift._--'"The Battle of the Books" is the fancy of a lover of libraries.'--LEIGH HUNT. The royal library at St. James's alluded to was one of the nine privileged libraries which received copies of new books under the Copyright Act of Anne. The privilege passed to the British Museum in 1757, when George II made over the royal collection to the nation. P. 65. _Bacon._--Sir William Temple in his _Essay on the Ancient and Modern Learning_ (pp. 59, 63, 110) concludes 'with a Saying of Alphonsus Sirnamed the Wise, King of Aragon: That among so many things as are by Men possessed or pursued in the Course of their Lives, all the rest are Bawbles, Besides Old Wood to Burn, Old Wine to Drink, Old Friends to Converse with, and Old Books to Read'. P. 67. _Goldsmith._--Horace Walpole wrote to the Rev. William Cole (Letter 2337; Oxford edition): 'There is a chapter in Voltaire that would cure anybody of being a great man even in his own eyes. It is the chapter in which a Chinese goes into a bookseller's shop, and marvels at not finding any of his own country's classics.' P. 69. _Hazlitt._--'William Hazlitt, I believe, has no books, except mine; but he has Shakespeare and Rousseau by heart.'--LEIGH HUNT. P. 71. _Hazlitt._--Hazlitt wrote this essay in Florence, on his honeymoon, and it opens with a quotation from Sterne: 'And what of this new book, that the whole world make such a rout about?' Lord Byron had died in the previous year, 1824. 'Laws are not like women, the worse for being old.'--The Duke of Buckingham's speech in the House of Lords in Charles the Second's time (Hazlitt's note). P. 72. _Dudley._--Rogers is reported to have said, 'When a new book comes out I read an old one.' P. 73. _Macaulay._--Pyrgopolynices (Plautus: _Miles Gloriosus_); Thraso (Terence: _Eunuch_); Bobadil (Ben Jonson: _Every Man in his Humour_); Bessus (Beaumont and Fletcher: _A King and no King_); Pistol (_The Merry Wives of Windsor_); Parolles (_All's Well that Ends Well_); Nephelococcygia (Aristophanes: _The Birds_--the cuckoos' town in the clouds); Lilliput (Swift: _Gulliver's Travels_--the pygmies' country). P. 77. _Ascham._--Thomas Blundeville wrote some lines in praise of Roger Ascham's Latin grammar:-- Of English books as I could find, I have perused many a one: Yet so well done unto my mind, As this is, yet have I found none.