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way. We should read them with special interest, 

 as reflecting the character of the age in which 

 they appeared, and as belonging to a series exer- 

 cising a mighty influence in moulding and guiding 

 the commercial and political opinions of this great 

 nation. Tlie preservation of a newspaper,^ if it be 

 but a weekly one, will become a source of instruc- 

 tion and amusement to our descendants in gene- 

 rations to come. H. M. Bealbt. 

 North Brixton. 



" IN QDIETNESS AND CONFIDENCE SHALL BE TOUB 

 STRENGTH." 



There is an old house in the "Dom Platz," at 

 Frankfort, in which Luther lived for some years. 

 A bust of him in relief is let into the outer wall ; 

 it is a grim-looking ungainly efiigy, coarsely 

 coloured, and of very small pretensions as a work 

 of art; but evidently of a date not much later 

 than the time of the great Iconoclast. Round the 

 figure, the following words are deeply cut : " In 

 silentio et in spe, erit fortitudo vestra." Can any 

 of your readers tell me whether any particular cir- 

 cumstance of Luther's life led him to adopt this 

 motto, or otherwise identified it with his name ; 

 or whether the text was merely selected by some 

 admirer after his death, to garnish this memorial ? 



In either case it is not uninteresting to notice, 

 that this passage of Scripture has been employed 

 more than any other as the watchword of that 

 religious movement in the English Church which 

 we are accustomed to associate with Oxford and 

 the year 1833. It forms the motto on the title- 

 page of the Christian Year; it has been very 

 conspicuous in the writings of many eminent de- 

 fenders of the same school of theology ; and it is 

 thus alluded to by Dr. Pusey in the preface to 

 that celebrated sermon on the Eucharist, for which 

 he received the University censure : 



" Since I can now speak hi no other manner, I may 

 in this way utter one word to the young, to whom I 

 have heretofore spoken from a more solemn place ; I 

 would remind them how almost prophetically, sixteen 

 years ago, in the volume which was the unknown 

 dawn and harbinger of the re-awakenuig of deeper 

 truth, this was given as the watchword to those who 

 should love the truth, 'In quietness and confidence 

 shall be your strength.' There have been manifold 

 tokens that patience is the one great grace which God 

 is now calling forth in our church," &c. 



I will not here inquire which of the two great 

 religious revolutions I have mentioned has been 

 more _ truly characterised by the spirit of this 

 beautiful and striking text, but perhaps some of 

 your readers will agree with me in thinking that 

 the coincidence is at least a note-worthy one ; and 

 not the less so, because it was probably unde- 

 signed. Joshua G. Fitch. 



BINDERS OF THE VOLUMES IN THE HARLKIAN 

 LIBRABT. 



In Dr. Dibdin's Bibliographical Decame7-on, 

 1817, vol. ii. p. 503., he thus introduces the sub- 

 ject: 



" The commencement of the eighteenth century saw 

 the rise and progress of the rival libraries of Harley 

 and Sunderland. What a field, therefore, was here for 

 the display of the blbliopegistic art ! Harley usually 

 preferred red morocco, with a broad border of gold, and 

 the fore-edges of the leaves without colour or gilt. 

 Generally speaking, the Harleian volumes arc most 

 respectably bound ; but they have little variety, and the 

 style of art which they generally exhibit rather belongs 

 to works of devotion." 



In a note on the above passage, Dibdin adds : 



" I have often consulted my bibliomaniacal friends 

 respecting the name of the binder or binders of the 

 Harleian Library. Had Bagford or Wanley the chief 

 direction ? I suspect the latter." 



If Dr. Dibdin and his "bibliomaniacal friends " 

 had not preferred the easy labour of looking at 

 printed title-pages to the rather more laborious 

 task of examining manuscripts, they might readily 

 have solved the Query thus raised by referring 

 to Wanley's Autograph Diary, preserved in the 

 Lansdowne Collection, Nos. 771, 772, which proves 

 that the binders employed by Lord Oxford were 

 Christopher Chapman of Duck Lane, and Thomas 

 Elliot. Very many entries occur between Ja- 

 nuary 1719-20 and May 1726, relative to the 

 binding both of manuscripts and books in mo- 

 rocco and calf; and It appears. In regard to the 

 former material, that It was supplied by Lord 

 Oxford himself. Some of these entries will show 

 the jealous care exercised by honest Humphreys 

 Wanley over the charge committed to him. 



" 25th January, 1 719-20. This day having inspected! 

 Mr. Elliot's bill, I found him exceedingly dear in all 

 the work of Morocco, Turkey, and Russia leather, 

 besides that of velvet. 



" 28th January, . Mr. Elliot the bookbinder 



came, to whom I produced the observations I made 

 upon his last bill, showing him that (without catching 

 at every little matter) my Lord might have had the 

 same work done as well and cheaper, by above 31/. 

 He said that he could have saved above eight pounds 

 in the fine books, and yet they should have looked 

 well. That he now cannot do them so cheap as be 

 rated them at ; that no man can do so well as himself, 

 or near the rates I set against his. But, upon the 

 whole, said he would write to my Lord upon the 

 subject. 



"13th July, 1721. Mr. Elliot having clothed the 

 CODEX AVREvs in my Lord's Morocco leather, took the 

 same from hence this day, in order to work upon it 

 with his best tools ; which, he says, he can do with 

 much more conveniency at his house than here. 



" 19th January, 1721-22. Mr. Chapman came, and 

 received three books for present binding. And upon 



