LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 493 



For Shakspeare's sake, so to speak, I look with unfailing interest 

 ■©n a little volume which I have, once possessed, and doubtless used, 

 by David Garrick. It is a copy of Dr. Charles Patin's Relations 

 Historiques ei Curieuses de Voyages en Alleviagne, Angleterre, 

 Hollande, Boheme, Suisse, efc.,",printed at Amsterdam in 1695. It 

 has inside, Garrick's book-plate— a tasteful design engraved on copper, 

 showing the name David Garrick enclosed in an irregular frame- 

 work of arabesques, surrounded by emblems of poetry, the drama and 

 music, and surmounted by a spirited head of Shakspeare. Below, 

 Garrick has caused to be engraved a salutary piece of advice to the 

 borrowers of books : "La premiere chose qu' on doit faire quand on a 

 emprunt^ un livre, c'est de le lire afin de pouvoir le rendre plutot." 

 The authority for the passage is added — " Menagiana, vol. iv." 

 Underneath all this has been inserted the following memorandum : 

 " This book, which formed pai-t of the library of David Garrick, Esq., 

 was, among others, bequeathed by Mrs. Eva Maria Garrick, his relict, 

 to George Frederick Beltz, Lancaster Herald, one of the executors of 

 her will." 



Garrick's quotation from Menage recalls the amiable legend stamped 

 on the exterior of Grolier's books — Grolieri et Amicorum. Pos- 

 sessors of libraries generally find it unsafe in the long run to imitate 

 Grolier. It was experience, doubtless, that induced Dr. Singer, 

 formerly Fellow of Dublin University, to warn off borrowers by a 

 Scripture text appended to his book-plate — " Go ye rather to them: 

 that sell, and buy for yourselves." Illat. xxv, 9. 



I possess another memento of Garrick in the form of a silver medal 

 or badge, worn by one of the officials at the memorable' Garrick 

 Jubilee held at Stratford-on-Avon in 1769. It bears on the obverse 

 the head of Shakspeare, resembling that on the book-plate ; sur- 

 rounded by the words, " "We shall not look upon his like again." 

 On the reverse is the inscription : " Jubilee at Stratford in Honour 

 and to the Memory of Shakespeare, Sep. 1769. D. G., Steward." 

 D. G. are the initials of David Garrick. The badge still retains the 

 little moveable silver loop through which the ribbon passed, by which 

 in 1769 it was suspended on the breast of the wearer. 



With my Garrick relics I associate a volume which was once the 

 property of John Philip Kemble, the greatest interpreter of his day 

 of Shakspeare on the stage. It is a copy of a Spanish New Testa- 

 ment, printed by Ricardo del Campo in 1506. The volume is finely 



