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list would take days to write and hoiu's to read. Besides these, the 

 library-steps are crowded with a haystack of unbound books, mostly 

 Dutch, and two open portmanteaus are overflowing with papers and 

 correspondence. " 



(A relic associated with the name of Hare's attached friend, 

 Landor, overlooked by me before, but preserved with care, I notice 

 now. It is a copy of the Manual of Epictetus, beautifully pi-inted 

 by Foulis at Glasgow, in 1750, from the library of Lander's father, 

 Dr. Walter Landor, and showing his book-plate and name. In one 

 of Landor's Imaginary Conversations, the interlocutors are Epictetus 

 and Seneca ; and in another, between Lucian and Timotheus, Lucian 

 is made to say — " More of triie wisdom, more of trustworthy manli- 

 ness, more of promj)titude and power to keep you steady and 

 straightforward on the perilous road of life, may be found in the 

 little manual of Epictetus, which I could write in the palm of my 

 left hand, than there is in aU the rolling and redundant volumes of 

 this mighty rhetorician [Plato], which you may begin to transcribe 

 on the summit of the great Pyramid, carry down over the Sphynx 

 at the bottom, and continue on the sands half-way to Memphis." 

 Let us siippose that the little manual of Epictetus, before Landor's 

 mmd at the moment, was this identical one from which, while in his 

 father's library, he may have derived his first impressions of the 

 philosophy of Epictetus ! — I may note here, also, two other ovei-- 

 sights. 1. In connection with relics of persons associated with 

 Dr. Johnson, I omitted to describe my " Robin Hood's Garland," 

 which is from the collection of Sir William Tite, who prized the book 

 as having been once the property of Francis Barber, the negro body- 

 servant of Dr. Johnson, often mentioned in the biographies of the 

 doctor. Sir William thought fit to honour the volume with full 

 binding in handsome calf, and to insert in it the following memoran- 

 dum : " Bought by W. Morgan, bookseller and burgess of Lichfield, 

 at the late Canon Bayley's sale, who died 1832. Bayley had it from 

 Dr. Harwood of Lichfield, and it was well known to have been 

 bought by him of the widow of Dr. Johnson's black servant, Francis 

 Barber. Lichfield, 15 Dec. 1835." It is an ordinary chapbook, 

 printed at Lichfield, with a rude woodcut of Robin Hood holding a 

 bow, on the title-page. 2. When speaking of Continental auto- 

 graphs, I should have included one of the Count Oxenstiern in a 

 copy of Montfauson de Villars' Comte de Gahcdis, on Entretiens sur 



