134 ^^ education. y^ly 3T. 



For the Support of the library and museum, ^ 

 specified sum ftiould be paid by each student annu- 

 ally on his matriculation ; in consequence of which 

 he fhould have a right to consult any book in the 

 library, when it was open, under proper regulations, 

 and to carry home such books as it might be judged 

 safe to entrust out of the library, on depositing the 

 price of the book with the librarian, to be got up 

 when the book was returned. This regulation has 

 been found to be a very proper one in the univer- 

 sity of Edinburgh, where it has been adhered to for 

 many years past. The profefsors, too, fliould 

 have the use of books, but under certain regulati- 

 ons to prevent them from being too long detained 

 in the pofsefsion of any one person. For purchasing 

 books, a committee of three of the profefsors (hould 

 exercise that office for one year, to follow in rota» 

 tion legularly, so as include the whole. 



These hints have already extended to too great 

 a length for this Miscellany, arid will by some be 

 dei med of a nature too nearly approaching to Uto- 

 pian, to be capable of being carried into prac- 

 tice. It would be easy however to fliow that 

 there is nothing either physically or morally im- 

 practicable in the plan, in a place of great ex- 

 tent ; such as London, Paris, or any other great city, 

 jvhere, if able teachers were appointed, a sufficient 

 number of students could easily be found to afford 

 a reasonable compensation to litetary men in all de- 

 jiartn ents for their labour ; and that by acting thus 

 in concert, knowledge might be advanced to a much 

 higher degree than it has yet attained, and the ac^ 



