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SEVENTH PAPER.
Mr.. William Willis Library is one to delight
the historian, the antiquarian, and general
student. He has been many years in forming
it. The writer has at hand catalogue of this
Library of AZ small Syo pp., which was printed
in 1884. In Law, History and Biography, it
Is quite perfect Mr.. Willis profession has in
dueed him to arrange complete workshop
of Law books and his tastes and habits of au-
thorship have led him to secure the best his
torical, genealogical, biographical, and statis-
tical works for perusal and consultation.
There is system in the arrangement of the
books in this library which is highly eommen-
dable. The catalogue is arranged according
TO subjects, as Agriculture, Horticulture. and
Botany, Arts sciences and philosophy, Educa-
tion and philology, voyages and travels, Gen
eral History and Biography, Religion, Poll
tics, Law, Periodicals and Miscellany.
In order to give the reader the best idea of
the value OF this library we shall give a list OF
the most prominent works in each depart
ment. We find in the first place the various
works and manuals which appertain to Agri-
culture and Horticulture, written by a. J.
Downing, Prince, Allen, Colman, and the sew
eral valuable State Reports of Maine and Mas
sachusetts.
Among the Arts and Sciences are the valua-
BILE works of DIR. Lardner, DIR. Ure, Dr. Kitch-
ener, DIR. Liebig, Storer's Synopsis of the
Fishes OF North America, and Horace Wal
poles Anecdotes of Painting, vols.
la Philology, are many ancient and modern
dictionaries, grammars of several languages,
including the Persian Grammar by Sir VIM.
Jones, which is rarely met with. There is
considerable variety of works of Travel, Bar
rows travels in China and in Africa Clarks
travels, Cooks voyages, Humboldts, Hob
house Lander, DIR. John Moore's, Silliman's,
Sismondi u. Taylor and others. Works OF
History and Biography constitute the chief
feature of Mr.. Willis Library. Our attention
is first called to Ancient history, the works by
Tit Livii, G. Suetonius, e. velleii Paterculi.
G. Julii Cesaris, Xenophon, Thucidides and
Josephus. The Histories of Greece, by VIM.
Milford 10 s vols, and Gillie in vols.
In modern history Sir Walter Raleighs His
tory of the World the folio edition, Rapins'
celebrated History of England large folio
vols. London 1888, rubricated title page, the
History OF Edinburg by Hugo Arnot i7SS.
A TO Robertson's History of Scotland, 3 vols.
Clifford and Deane's History of France.
Memories of Cardinal De Retz, number of
works concerning Bonaparte and the French
people, The Florentine histories by Machia-
velli, Prescolts Ferdinand and Isabella. his
tories aud biographies by NJ. Duclos and
Voltaire, works OF Frederick The Great
The Department of American and local his
tory is very complete. III some pamphlets
and town histories are wanting here they are
the commonest. We notice Paul Aliens His
tory Of the American Revolution 2 vols, which
is one of the best and most reliable histories
of "the times which tried mems souls.r IL
may not be generally known that Mr. ylbhn
Neal composed this work which Mr.. Allen has
the credit Of There is to be found here Tim
othy Alden's collection OF American Epitaphs
and Inscriptions in ) vols History of the
District of Maine by James Sullivan, Deane's
History of Scituate, Weston's lecture on East
port, Historical State Papers by Hazard ,
Thomas Hutchinson's History of Massachu-
sets 3 vols. Tudor's life of James Otis Far
mer's Genealogical Register, Princes y. T..
Chronology, the first and last editions, The
collections Of the Historical Societies, ct Get,
ct Get.
There are also many religious works and
quite specially OF Unitarian literature In
addition TO the separately published writings of
Henry Ware Jr., W. L. Charming, |. Nichols, n
Parker and DIR. Peabody there is the complete
series OF the publications of the American
Unitarian Association with the various con-
troyersial tracts and pamphlets which grew
out Of the separation OF the Unitarian and Or
thodox churches. Mr.. Willis collection of
pamphlets is large and extremely valuable.
They are contained in above two hundred Syo
volumes, and are catalogued so that they can
be referred to and are consequently very use
ful. W
There are historical, biographical, ccclesi-
astical, political, statistical, and miscellaneous
pamphlets, altogether forming an unique col
lection of the ephemeral publications of the
past 125 years. Those particularly valuable
are sermons by Cotton and Samuel Mather,
orations by DIR. Joseph Warren, Paine, Quin-
cy, Adams, and other early statesmen, Sew
eral eulogies on the death of Washington doc
nmeuts concerning Burr and Hamilton, ordi-
nation sermons OF period of 80 years, pam
phlets published during the French Revolution.
ana Inc War OF 1872. Artillery election SER
mons OF the past century and many others OF
like value.
Almanacs and Registers have acarious yalue
Mr.. Willis has a complete set of them from
the year l7GO to the present. aud some dating
from 1923,
There are also anumber of bound volumes
OF early newspapers, the Boston Evening Post.
from 1893 to 1867, the Boston Gazette, the
Post Boy, the Essex Gazette and u vols. OF
the Columbia Centinel, the New York Journal
OF lIol, and various others including vols
OF the Falmouth Gazette for 1885, which was
the first paper printed in Maine.
The Periodical works are numerons The
North American Review from the lst No to
a recent date the Anaclectic Magazine Amer.
can Register, Edinburg Review. The Port
Folio, Eclectic, Putnam, American Quarterly
Review, &c,
In the Law Library are contained MANY
valuable reports and early criminal trials. also
. complete set ofthe State documents of Maine
since the establishment of the Government
which includes all the Public and Private acts
the resolves OF the legislature, &c. We be.
l6eye this collection is unique.
The miscellaneous department of the libra
~ contains the works of most of the standard
authors, the best editions of Milton, Shakes
peare, Bolnbrook, johnson, Pope, Sterne
Burke, Byron, Moore, the British poets com
plete, the writings of Washington, Franklin
Adams, Everett, and Prescott, various trans.
latiOus and Versiona of tha Scrinfutas patri,l