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and heavily bound in durable calf, and properly gilt. Tlie covers 

 live lined inside with marbled paper, and in the usual situation is 

 Dr. Blomfield's book-plate, showing his own arms, impaled with 

 those of the see of London. Below is engraved, in plain, round hand, 

 Charles James Blomfield, D.D. We can readily picture to oux'- 

 selves, the learned bishop turning the pages of this little brochure 

 of Schrader with a dignified indifference, and yawning in a moment 

 of ennui over its miscellaneous contents. 



Dr. Samiiel Butler, who lived 1774-1840, is another sample of the 

 heavily- weighted homo eruditus of sixty yeai-s ago. I have a quarto 

 relic of him likewise, but not quite so bulky a one as that which 

 represented Bishop Blomfield. Dr. Samuel Butler was a celebrated 

 head master of Shrewsbury school. His name is associated especially 

 with a Classical Atlas, and works on Ancient Geography. He pub- 

 lished also an edition of " ^schylus," in four volumes quarto, and 

 another in six volumes octavo. (Observe that of this dramatist only 

 seven plays are extant.) Being, unlike Parr, a producible man, and 

 not given to much humour like Sydney Smith, he was raised in 1836 

 to the Episcopal Bench as Bishop of Lichfield. — This thin quarto, boimd 

 in good vellum, has within its cover the following autographic inscrip- 

 tion: S. Butler: ex dono socer . sui : Viri Reverendi E. A'pthorj), S.T.P., 

 1799. The vokime itself consists of a very curious astrological poem 

 in Greek by the Egyptian priest Manetho, Gronoviiis' editio jyrinceps 

 of that piece. The whole title is as follows : Ma-AOaj'^vz ' A-iirsXsGiiaTiy.iov 

 Btl3Xca £$. Manethonis Apotelesmaticorum Libri sex : Nunc primum 

 ex Bibliotheca Medicea editi : cura Jacobi Gronovii, qui etiam Latine 

 vertit ac notisadjecit. Lugduni Batavorum, apud Fredericum Haar- 

 ing . 1698. — On the title-page is the publisher's impresa or device. 

 A sturdy husbandman is seen industriously delving; a landscape 

 with mountains, a city and a village in the background : on the sky 

 is the legend, Fac et Spera. The volume is inscribed by Gronovius 

 to Magliabecchi, the celebrated librarian of the Grand Duke of Tus- 

 cany; also to Conrad Buysch, chief magistrate of Ley den. The 

 former had given Gronovius, when in Florence, willing access to the 

 only copy of the Apoteleusmatica known to exist, and had allowed 

 him to take a copy of it with his own hand. The latter had tr-a veiled 

 in Italy; and whenever he and Gronovius met, their talk always 

 turned on happy hours spent there.- Gronovius styles Magliabecchi, 

 Vir clarissimus et prsecipuus Eruditorum hujus temporis.— The E. 

 Apthorp above named by Dr. Butler as his father-in-law was a 



