a Polydore; and must expect to fall when you encounter Achilles.* Think of the honor you have acquired in this day's glorious contest; and when you are drenching your cups of claret, at your hospitable board, contemplate your De Bure as a trophy which will always make you respected by your visitors! I am glad to see you revive. Yet further intelligence?

LIS. My good Mercurius, for whom a knife and fork shall always be laid at my table, has just informed me that Clement's Bibliothèque Curieuse and Panzer's Typographical Annals are knocked down to me after Mustapha had picked me out for single combat, and battered my breast-plate with a thousand furious strokes !

• You must always,' said I, 'expect tough work from such an enemy, who is frequently both wanton and wild. But I congratulate you heartily on the event of this day's contest. Let us now pack

up, and pay for our treasures.

for our treasures. Your servant has

just entered the room, and the chaise is most probably at the door.'

LIS. I am perfectly ready. Mercurius tells me that the whole amounts to

PHIL. Upwards of thirty guineas?

LIS. Hard upon forty pounds. Here is the draft upon my banker: and then for my precious tomes

The reader may peruse the affecting death of this beautiful youth, by the merciless Achilles, from the 407 to 418th verse of the xxth book of Homer's Iliad. Fortunately for Lisardo, he survives the contest, and even threatens revenge!

of bibliography! A thousand thanks my friend. I love this place of all things; and after your minute account of the characters of those who frequent it, I feel a strong propensity to become a deserving member of so respectable a fraternity. Leaving them all to return to their homes as satisfied as myself, I wish them a hearty good day.

Upon saying this, we followed Lisardo and his bibliographical treasures into the chaise; and instantly set off, at a sharp trot, for the quiet and comfort of green fields and running streams. As we rolled over Westminster-bridge, we bade farewel, like the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, to the

'Fumum et opes strepitúmque Romæ.'

PART IV.

The Library.

DR. HENRY'S HISTORY OF GREAT BRITAIN. A GAME AT CHESS. OF MONACHISM AND CHIVALRY.

DIN

NER AT LORENZO'S. SOME ACCOUNT OF BOOK-COL

LECTORS IN ENGLAND.

Wisdom loves

This seat serene, and Virtue's self approves :

Here come the griev'd, a change of thought to find;
The curious here, to feed a craving mind:

Here the devout, their peaceful temple chuse ;
And here, the poet meets his favoring Muse.

CRABBE's Poems. (The Library.)