8o TlMEHRI. 
intending to bathe being admitted. In the same year we 
find the "Georgetown Private Library" with asubscription 
of 66 guilders per annum, and " D. MITCHELL'S Circulating 
Library" at 44 guilders or 6 guilders per month, three 
volumes being allowed to town and six to country sub- 
scribers. A correspondent of the Gazette, "Biblos," 
gives a rather flowery description of the latter. He said, 
there were several excellent book societies in Demerara 
confined to a certain class of readers, but there never 
before had been one open to all ranks of the people. Mr. 
Mitchell having been therefore the first to establish a 
Library on that footing, deserved well of the public and 
merited its support. The collection as far as it went, 
would be found exceedingly good, and if due encourage- 
ment were given, it might be hoped that in the course of 
a few years such an assemblage of literary works would 
be found as might enable all who wished to obtain a 
tolerable knowledge of English literature. But apart 
from that Mr. Mitchell's shop would be found a charm- 
ing lounging place for the half-idle ; here might be had 
portfolios of caricatures, pictures, annuals beautifully 
bound, fit presents for the fair, casts and models of 
statues, flutes, fiddles, music, colour boxes, in short the 
whole paraphernalia of a fashionable watering place 
library — and, if the ladies would only set the example, 
there was a nice little room aback well calculated for 
raffles. Among the musical novelties was a song " My 
own sweet love, he's far away" by RICHARD TAYLOR of 
this colony. 
In stating that this was the first case of a bookseller 
having a library, "Biblos" was mistaken, as we find such an 
institution in Stabroek as early as 1 799. From the adver- 
