340 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



twelve Academic Orations, in splendid Latin, by Facciolati, the 

 aiitlior of the celebrated Totius Latinitatis Lexicon. Over a book- 

 plate, bearing the arms of Joseph Smith, appears the following 

 memorandum in manuscript. "Dec. 6, 1815. Priestley. Collated 

 and Perfect. Large Paper. Edmund Henry Barker, Thetford, 

 Norfolk." The handwriting is particularly good and clear; a great 

 contrast to Parr's slovenly script. It is implied, I suppose, that 

 Priestley, a learned bibliopole of the day, had described as above, the 

 volume before us. The spirit of Facciolati's Orations is precisely that 

 which actuated Barker and his school. He condemns, for one thing, 

 the too long detention of the young amidst the preliminaries of mere 

 G-rammar, which appears to have been a custom in Italy as well as 

 in England ; and he prays the young student carefully to consider 

 that " Non Ijatinum sermonem ex Grammatica, sed G-rammaticam ex 

 Latino sermone natam esse :" — a leading principle in the so-called 

 OUendorf system of teaching. — The Joseph Smith whose book-plate 

 is noticed above, was British Consul at Venice in 1755. "While 

 resident there, he indulged largely in book-collecting ; and there 

 most likely our Facciolati was picked up. 



Dr. Blomfield, in breaking a lance with whom we have seen Barker 

 somewhat injudiciously engaged, was a gigantic Latin and Greek 

 scholar. Everything abovit such an Hercules of learning, we 'should 

 expect perhaps to be of proportionate magnitude. Even the tractates 

 constituting his light reading, we might imagine to be somewhat pon- 

 derous. I have a volume, once the property of Dr. Blomfield, quite 

 in keeping with such an idea. It is a collection of conjectural read- 

 ings in a number of Greek and Latin aiithors by a Netherlandish or 

 Hanoverian scholar. It is a thinnish quarto. A hundred years ago, 

 when an author wished his work to make a very respectable show, 

 he issued it as a quarto. Ephemeral controversial pamphlets were 

 often of this shape. The work which I have bears this title, printed 

 in red ink: "lo. Schraderi Liber Emendationum. Leovardise, 1776." 

 — In the middle of the title-page is a vignette group from a copper- 

 plate: Minerva standing on a number of modern-looking volumes; to 

 her right and left are the Muses of Tragedy and Comedy. Leovardia 

 is Leenwarden, the capital of Friesland. The work contains a large 

 number of emendations proposed by Schrader in Catullus, Propertius, 

 Martial, Yirgil, Ovid &c., with some proposed by others in Homer 

 and Hesiod. To make the quarto more important still, it is strongly 



