New-York tribune., 1841-06-08
yational Eythsnse---Plan of II. Vaitenare'

~ ,olay The meeting Wa organized by ne election o
Hon. Jane. Tallr,adge as President
,,er soe preliminary business, ) d Raymond ;sq II
,y brief and forci5e remarks explained the plans aHd
uccc-. of Distinguished foreigner and detailed the -
suits OF hs efforts, particularly in III. csa de then -
soiucei 70 the audience u. YA1TEaAnE "ho read 7e7:
neat and ior:ble address expressive o; MS thanks Tor n
kind entertainment in ,: cora and n general elrcidaiior
Of his .v:cr 81 ineraa,ion, exchanges sketch oi Which
m ~iya below, Resolutions ,.c- Introduced exres=iu-
As confidence Of ;Ae meeting tc proposed plan lF.
avovuc readiness pleparaor? 10 rs e'-
Enlistment ia this CO and s;a:e
TEley supported n yery -oe aa eloquent ?esoi.
By the Rev Dr. Wainwright ane were unanimously ahoP'sa
by the meeting The following outline OF the fan ol u
vat,emare is drarn out from lie no;e= used IN Ms A''s=
las, evening, but v!ch IN speaNas ne ''as oonPeS- "
dye7gc from considerably to persona pcs and grea' 70
abrdge by he laoness Of the hocF - which nc commenced
1t enbodes all tina; = essential n ~ scheme and presents
he success which as thus far attended MS edenyng and
enthusiastic excrti0ns:
n ya,teoare IN Introducing bis rlaa gaze, somewhat
:; i1 an acco,, a he origin character and progress Of
t bc7, exchanges Partly owing to nat
,, bias he said and par,, TO The nature Of lis early edura
non t had aIav fndae.. for tae relics and doinrs
rho oo Tb;. led him. IN conec,o. With his profession,
M all the capitals Of Europe and to OK pore their Libraries,
collections. museums and treasare-i-.cs of aneien; lore.
He thu. soon became familiar :h all the wonders the:
taned In the rozrcs those researches nc di=o7:ered
nam priceless antiquarian ic- the yey existence o "cn
was unsuspeced by their propre;or lie often IN the
Libraries of one cv duplicates books which IN aRoiher,
perhaps not far of were indispensable complete coec-
ton a; other times he found stray Yolarncs OF the same
original book scattered over different kingdoms and
sonay works the importance to the historical col
cctions of ogc country PRESCRIBED in another where they
not o: the slightest value interest.
Lie specified many in which this had occurred
In Tie Town Library AK France, he found MSS con-
cernng OF Lyons Paris Metz StasbGrg aSs o.
neva-not of the least value where they were but OF I'M
worth the people Of those cities In the Arsenal
Library of Paris he found the first four volumes of the cel-
brated romance of The Four Sons OF Ayr'on work writ
in the fifteenth century and supposed never 10 have been
coapleed; yet the Librar, of Munich he f'uns the filth
and last volume OF this onssosgh work The first volume
OF MS History o the Dukes OF Burgundy written III
l400 has been for years in the Town Library o se f Ian
dcrs and the second was universally supposed TO be o
and yet he found this second volume IN Lapnnd lhns'
wherever he 7uncyc he found documents and manuscripts
entirely of yacee disloca,cd members OF many DIS
Tan, boy-youecss in their prescn, state but of priceless
vor,b when brouob, ,ooc,ber Mutudes Of priceless. li.-
,oca and scientific documents NAV vet be ound in the libra
ries of Mt A,hos of Patnos Of Jerusalem and Constantine
pc where still are located the wrecks Of he great Acxan-
dr;op Library
Tho ccoos of printed books he found no les rich and
,f,dor, in seIo. pIicaes. OF the Lib.rie. in Northern
,h; L bj ;;,od he r,c,,iorcd ,,or,ic,larv that,
,e 1;,.o.,. -. l, r-;or.;,, ~. Tra =; Ce,r.,ny. he
fund no To-. than - 600 dnieate. in that of Wcnbu,te