_ tiquities 
682 Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Miscellanies. 
Tn justice perhaps it may be right to. 
say, thatthe latter of these. prelates ap- 
_pears, altogether, to more advantage 
than the former, in the correspondence. 
| Mildness and submission seem to mark 
Hurd; while Warburton strides lke a 
Colossus, dispensing his dicta like the 
very high-priest and oracle of learning. 
He is at once witty, eloquent, and dic- 
tatorial.. His letters occasionally place 
him in points of view far more favourable 
than any other of his writings. 
A work of no small interest, in point 
of reference, will be found in the ‘‘ In- 
dex to the First Fifiecn Volumes of Ar- 
chgologia ;” printed by order of the So- 
ciety of Antiquaries of London; and 
compiled by their secretary, Mr. Nicuo- 
tas CartistE., This Index consists of 
two parts, each arranged in alphabetical 
order. The first contains the names of 
persons, to which, not only the titles of 
nobility, and the different degrees con- 
ferred by the universities, are added, 
but also other occasional marks of dis- 
tinction. The second part contains the 
names of places, and of subjects. In 
- this arrangement of the Index, particu- 
lar care has been taken to notice the pro- 
Minent passages of each communication, 
by which method a general acquaintance 
with each treatise is readily obtained. In 
order to facilitate research, the leading 
titles of the antiquities discovered in 
England, are here classed under their 
respective counties. Those of the an- 
in Scotland, Ireland, and 
Wales, will likewise be found under their 
several heads. In the same manner the 
description of ancient coins, inscriptions, 
stations, and memorable incidents, are 
each brought under one view; and as 
far-as the compiler has been able, every 
subject is noticed in a manner, intended 
to afford the easiest access to the valuable 
information contained in the first fifteen 
volumes of Archzologia. 
“ The Bibliomania; or, Book- Madness; 
eontaining some Account of the History, 
Symptoms, and Cure of this futal Disease: 
in an Epistle addressed to Richard Heber, 
Esq.” by the Rev. Toomas Frocnaty 
. Dreprn, will be found to contain a great 
deal of curious information, here and 
there mixed with good-natured satire 
and anecdote. Pigs. N beef 
' The first eminent character, Mr.Dibdin 
observes, who appears to have been in- 
fested with this disorder, was Richard 
de Bury,’ one of the tutors of King Ed- 
ward the Third, and afterwards Bishop 
ef Durham; a man who has been uni- 
of book-collecting. 
formly praised for the variety of his eru= 
dition, and the intenseness of his ardour 
y, The Earl of Surrey 
and Sir Thomas Wyatt, Dean Colet, Le- 
land and Roger Ascham, are the next 
persons enumerated as notorious for the 
book-disease. In the reign of Elizabeth, 
Mr. Dibdin adds, “ If we are to credit 
Laneham’s celebrated Letter, it had exe 
tended far into the country, and infested 
some of the worthy iwhabitants of Coven- 
try; for one Captain Cox, ‘ by profession 
a masen, and that right skilful,’ had as 
fair a hbrary of sciences, and as many 
goodly monuments, both im prose and 
poetry; and at afternoon could talk as 
much without book, as any inn-holder 
betwixt Brentford and Bagshot, what de- 
gree soever he be.” 
While the country was thus giving 
proofs of the prevalence of this disorder, 
the two Harringtons (especially the 
younger) and {the illustrious Spenser, 
were unfortunately seized with itin the 
metropolis. 
In the 17th century, from the death 
of Elizabeth to the commencement of 
Anne’s reign, it seems to have made con= 
siderable havec: yet, such was our kind- 
hess to it, that we scrupled not to en- 
gage in overtures for the purchase of 
Isaac Vossius’s fine library, enriched with 
many treasures from the Queen of Swe- 
den’s, which this versatile genius scru= 
pled not to pillage without confession or 
apology. During this century, our great 
reasoners and philosophers began to be 
in motion; and, like the fumes of to- 
bacco, which drive the concealed and 
clotted insects from the interior to the ex- 
tremity of the leaves, the infectious par- 
ticles of the Bibliomania set a thou- 
sand busy brains a thinking, and pro- 
duced ten thousand capricious works, | 
which, over-shadowed by the majestic. 
remains of Bacon, Locke, and Boyle, pe- 
rished for want of air, and warmth, and 
moisture. 
In the reign of Anne, Maittaire and 
Harley, Earl of Oxford, are introduced, 
followed by a host of collectors, the ana- 
lyses of whose catalogues form a princi- 
pal feature of the work. » 4 
_ Having’enumerated and more particue 
larly described the symptoms of the dis- 
. 
_ ease, which Mr. Dibdin says are in- 
stantly known bya passion for 1. large pa= 
per copes ; 2. uncut copies; 3. illustrate - 
ed copies; 4. unique copies; 5. copies 
prynted upon vellum ; 6. first editions ; 
7. true editions; 8. a general desire for 
the black letter ; he proceeds to ay a 
fer SF el Sea Sa it 3 vies i few. 
