Cyri decretum de templi restauratione Darii iussu perquiritur. Darius, crowned, his back half turned to the spectator, is giving orders to several young men, who are taking books out of an _armarium_--evidently copied from one of the Vatican book-cupboards. V. BIBLIOTHECA ATHENIENSIS. (Two pictures.) (_a_) _Pisistratus arranges a library at Athens._ Pisistratus primus apud Graecos publicam bibliothecam instituit. Pisistratus, in armour, over which is a blue mantle, is giving orders to an old man who kneels before him, holding an open book. Behind the old man attendants are placing books on desks--others are reading. Behind Pisistratus is a group of officers, and behind them again a book-press without doors, and a row of open books on the top. (_b_) _Restoration of the library by Seleucus._ Seleucus bibliothecam a Xerxe asportatam referendam curat. Servants are bringing in books which are being hastily packed into cases. In the background is seen the sea, with a ship; and the door of the palace. A picture full of life and movement. VI. BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA. (Two pictures.) (_a_) _Ptolemy organises the library at Alexandria._ Ptolemaeus ingenti bibliotheca instructa Hebreorum libros concupiscit. Ptolemy, a dignified figure in a royal habit, stands in the centre. He is addressing an elderly man who stands on his right. Behind him are three porches, within which are seen desks and readers. In the central porch are closed presses, with rows of folios on the top. Below are desks, at which readers are seated, their backs turned to the presses. (_b_) _The Seventy Translators bring their work to Ptolemy._ LXXII interpretes ab Eleazaro missi sacros libros Ptolemaeo reddunt. Ptolemy is seated on a throne to right of spectator with courtiers on his right and left. The messengers kneel before him, and hand him volumes. VII. BIBLIOTHECA ROMANORUM. (_a_) _Tarquin receives the Sibylline Books._ Tarquinius Superbus libros Sibyllinos tres aliis a muliere incensis tantidem emit. Tarquin, seated in the centre of the picture, receives three volumes from an aged and dignified woman. In front a lighted brazier in which the other books are burning. (_b_) _Augustus opens the Palatine library._ Augustus Caes. Palatina Bibliotheca magnifice ornata viros litteratos fovet.