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time of Ussher."^ The fourth lihrary is that of the Rev. Dr. Bouhereau^ 

 the first librarian of the institution, which completely fills the present 

 reading room of "Marsh."- And the fifth library, largely, perhaps, 

 it might be said, entirely composed of manuscripts dealing with Irish 

 history, was the property of that eminent canonist, historian, and Ori- 

 entalist, Dr. Dudley Loftus, who lived and died in Upper Exchange- 

 street, as it is now called, or as it was then styled the Blind Quay, at the 

 back of Parliament-street. The library thus constituted was for long the 

 onLj public library in Dublin, and continued such down to the earlier 

 part of the present century. The late Dr. Stubbs of Trinity College, 

 not so Tery many months ago, came into it one day and showed me 

 the Latin dictionary for the sake of which, as he told me, he used to 

 frequent " Marsh's" in the " thirties," and out of which he gathered 

 all the Latin which took him on to fellowship ; and, to show the 

 marvellous conservatism of the atmosphere and of the place, he went 

 and put his hand upon it, standing in the very spot where it stood 

 sixty years before.^ ^Now, as naturally may be supposed, the contents 



^ Mai-sli despaired of Oriental learning in Ireland, and therefore bestOM'ed nearly 

 1000 codices, Hebrew and Syriac, upon the Bodleian Library. His own private 

 library, whieli now forms a portion of that founded by himself and called after him, 

 is largely composed of Oriental books. It is curious that Marsh should have so 

 despaired of his own favourite study and its fate in Ireland, seeing that his friend 

 and contemporary, Dr. Dudley Loftus, was a Dublin Orientalist whose fame was, 

 just then, world-wide : cf. a paper by me on Dr. Dudley Loftus in the Journal of 

 the Eoyal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland for 1890-91, pp. 17-30. Dudley Loftus 

 printed Sp'iac works here in Dublin more than 200 years ago. I wonder what 

 became of his fount of Syriac type ? It can scarcely have been that used ux th& 

 printing of Dr. Gwynn's learned work on the text of the Apocalypse. A paper on 

 Oriental Scholarship in Dublin since 1600 would be veiy interesting. Ussher, 

 Loftus, Huntingdon, Marsh, form a goodly succession of Orientalists. 



2 Bouhereau was the first librarian. He was originally a Huguenot physician. 

 He came to Dublin after the Eevocation of the Edict of Xantes, and became the 

 pastor of the Conformist Huguenots, who worshipped in the Lady Chapel of St. 

 Patrick's. He was also the first librarian of "Marsh," and was Under Secretary as 

 well to the Lord Lieutenant of that day. He was the ancestor of the family of 

 Burroughs. He was a good scholar, and among bis books in ' ' Marsh " is a French 

 translation of Origen against Celsus which he printed at Amsterdam in 1700. This 

 translation is praised both by Mosheim, in his German translation of the same, 

 published in 1745, and by Dr. "Westcott, in his article on Origen in the Diet, of 

 Christian Biography, vol. iv., p. 122. 



2 The lexicon which had proved thus useful to Dr. Stubbs was Gouldman's 

 "English and Latin and Latia and English Dictionary," pubhshed at Cambridge 

 in the year 1669. It had been Archbishop Marsh's own property, as 



