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As might be expected, the library is well stocked with classics. Homer, in Greek and Latin, is there in two editions, as are likewise Aristotle, Strabo, Pausanias, Thucydides, Herodotus, Plutarch, and Athenæus in the edition noted above; Virgil, with the commentary of Servius; Solinus, with the Exercitations of Salmasius; Pliny in Greek and Latin, and many others, not. varior. Browne has a good deal to say about Aristotle. He refers, among other things, to the somewhat surprising assertion of Rabbi Ben Joseph that Aristotle acknowledged all that was written in the law of Moses, and became The Rabbi affected to at last a proselyte. 66 66 have found this interesting fact in an Egyp- 66 One is glad to note that Browne was not uninterested in the English versions of the classics. In 1682 Edward Browne was Life of PISCIBUS provides engaged on a translation of the < RONDELETIUS "When I read over Apitius, de re culinaria,"e writes Browne, "where there is mention of many odd pickles in many whereof was cummin seed of a very grateful tast, I contrived a pickle out of oysters, anchovies, pickled cowcumbers, onyons, Rhenish wine, &c., which I caused your Mother to make and I gave it to a patient whose weake and vomiting stomack was helped thereby. I a 'Rondeletius de Piscibus Marinis, Effigies expressæ sunt,' 1554. Sloan MS. 1847, fol. 238. 1541. Themistocles for a new edition of Plutarch's Lives,' and his father looks over the suggestions. He reminds him of the copy of manuscript, and plies his son with hints and North's 'Plutarch,' "of a fayre and legible print, which was that you and your brother Thomas used to read at my howse." 'De (primo) quæsitis per epistolas a claris viris See Fortunii Liceti,' Bon., 1640. responsa Wilkin, iii. 333. b Wilkin, iii. 44. 'Aristotelis Histor. de Animalib., Gr., Lat., cum comment. Scaligeri,' 1619. See unpublished letter, dated 22 Sept., 1679, S1. MS. 1847, fol. 39. The rest of the letter is in Wilkin, i. 258. a Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans,' 1657. See letter, Wilkin, i. 332. Holland's 'Pliny,' his 'Suetonius' and 'Plutarch's Morals,' Ogilby's Iliad,' Stapylton's 'Juvenal,' and Eutropius's History,' translated by several hands, 1614, all figure in the catalogue. Matthew Hale in 1664 that we meet Browne's name for the only time, perhaps, without pleasurable associations. show elsewhere that the facts connected I have tried to with this trial have been greatly misrepresented, and that Browne had really very little to do with the proceedings. It is interesting, then, to observe that the only work on witchcraft in the catalogue is an unimportant tract by one R. T., 10d."b Price One is glad to be able to believe that, after all, Browne did not take his witchcraft very seriously. 66 no means The foreign works make an extremely interesting collection, and deserve an article to themselves. One notes in passing the works of Dante (Venice, 1578), Tasso's Gierusalemme Liberata, and Pineda's Monarchia Ecclesiastica,' 1620, in Spanish, which Browne was reading in July, 1670.a There are books in German and Dutch, several grammars, a French translation of the Here we must leave him and his books, Decameron,' Amyot's Plutarch,' and a though the subject is by French Natural History of the Antilles.' exhausted. It would be interesting, for Browne seems to have been acquainted with instance, to reprint the whole catalogue with six languages, to what extent one does not notes and an index, and so make it accessible know; but his letters to his sons contain to some future editor of Browne. There are some excellent advice on the best way of many references in Browne's letters to acquiring facility in foreign tongues. works which are in the catalogue, but which I have not been able to take notice of here. The books themselves have long since been dispersed, and have passed, with much of the limbo of forgotten things. At one time old-world learning they enshrined, into the they were the valued and familiar possessions of one of the most engaging personalities in English literature. This must be my excuse for bringing them again into the light of day. MALCOLM LETTS. 66 ; but 66 Browne is not a writer who is much in touch with English imaginative literature. He seems to have read Hudibras when it appeared, but Part III. only is in the catalogue. In a letter to his son he refers to a prettie booke writ 1612 by Michael Dray ton, a learned poet, in smooth verse "b one is tempted to believe that it was Mr. Selden's learned comment upon it" which attracted him. The book is in the catalogue. Spenser is there, and Milton, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Cowley; also Walton and Cotton's Angler,' Herbert's Temple,' and Sam Daniell's Poetical Essays.' Shakespeare does not figure therein. Evelyn, a correspondent of Browne's, is represented by his Sylva; or, a Discourse of Forest Trees,' 1664, and A Parallel of Ancient Architecture,' as well as 'The History of the Three Late Famous Impostors,' "Published by J. E. Esquire," 1669.c witchcraft. 6 (See ante, pp. 1, 43, 83, 122, 163, 205, 244, 284, 323.) 1790. "The German Hotel; a Comedy, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. London: Printed for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row. M.DCC.XC." Octavo, x+2 +1-72 pp. 66 Halkett and Laing's 'Dictionary' gives I have looked carefully through the this work to 66 Marshall," and Cushing's catalogue for any reference to works on of the pseudonyms of Thomas Holcroft. 'Dictionary' records Marshall" as one Browne certainly believed in Oulton's History of the Theatres of London,' witches. It is in connexion with witch-appearing only six years later (1796), craft and the trial of two women before Sir this piece-acted at Covent Garden, 11 Nov., 1790-to Mr. Marshall as reported"; the 'Thespian Dictionary,' in 1800, did not ascribe it; the 'Biographia Dramatica,' in Juan de Pineda, 30 Libros de la Monarchia Ecclesiastic, o Historico Universal del Mundo,' 5 tom. in 4 vols., Barcel., 1620. (See letter, Wilkin, i. 204). The foreign books number some 480 items, made up as follows: French books, 329; Italian and Spanish, 110: Libri Teutonice et Belgice, 42. See letter, Wilkin, i. 315. e Viz., Padre Ottomano, pretended son and heir to the late Grand Signior; Mahomet Bei, a pretended Prince of the Ottoman family; and Sebati Servi, the supposed Messiah of the Jews in the year 1666. 66 ascribes a 'N. & Q.,' 11 S. v. 221. Norfolk Chronicle, 23 and 30 Dec., 1911. b"The Opinion of Witchcraft vindicated in an Answer to a book Intituled the Question of Witchcraft debated. Being a letter to a friend. By R. T. 1670." The tract is advertised in the Mercurius Librarius of 17 Feb, 1670. See Arber, 'Term Cat.,' i. 27. |