New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-22

There ia no doubt that more old -
will be hunted up and brought intspo,
| this centennial year, turned over, nege
and admired, than most OF us would =
believed were in existence In this O.
The oldest book in Harvard 90 Z
library is Latin folio. one OF the fas
| printed in Strasbourg as early as i!esi
though it has no date, the facs OF 10
was settled by finding printed bill charg
for binding it in 1870. IL Is IN exce,ia
condition, with Russia back snd TN
wooden covers, from which fhe iestner b
naeIed m in seversI places, sao uuce LAD
pIaa,.s apd b,sses of metal; its Title, st.
I ~ 80 En;stolss;' and, concerning 1t.
I'le.ony Ms; !, Is . book known by few"
no.e say 10 genuine l. tiers OF st. jerome
$3.50 acme suspected ones. The Types
JESUS .Jobn Mentell, and it is supposed b
ha she "Editio Pr,nceps. ana copy OF "
ss v edition has been sold as high as las
| francs.
| The Oldest book printed in America whiA
che library contains is Catholic WORK
9TH an alphabetical index and fine titk
mage. in which sre two cuts OF cathedral
nrinted in Mexico in 1866, and supposed 81
be the tirst where Roman letters wen
rsed-"Ladesma, De Septem Sacramento }
Antonio de Espinoso, printer-end may {
rare Since it is not IN thu list, said to o.
Inclusive" lin Thomas History of Prim
ingI, of books printed in Mexico betwed /
l5i0 and 1900.
Among the Bibles Ia one of 1866, pocbt
copy in Hebrew, which belonged to Lod 3
Bacon. and has his name written in ith E
two places by his own hsnd-''FfanGi Z
Bacon's book"
But the greater interest to all VI 4
sympathize with the royal martyr Z {
England, is one which that hapless Kin E
had in his library, and himself gave avs
On an occasion explained by the following 4
note. 1t is q large Bible, perfect in I'm &
type OF 1914, and the history of the gift Il
thus told:
This Bible was delivered to j. Gardin6
upon his return from Great Britain, in o.
toher, 1855, by his father, DR.. Silvesbcr Gar
liner, who informed him that in his lne
illness the proceeding year, DE-. Chafl1
Brockwell, who was then the Kings ohaf
ain at the chapel in Boston, delivered III
10 him, saying, Doctor, you have beenvG{
kind at all times to me and my family. -
have attended US and administered medieH
10 US from time to time without charginge
taking anything from me therefor; han
nothing to recompense you with, but 2
show my respect and gratitude as far ~
,an, permit me to request you to take -
IT this Bible, and in my name .. esent ita
your son John when he returns from GU
cow. value it verv much. 1t was giva
% my father by King Charles l., "
it to him with his own hale
after having taken it down from shelf w.
ais library, when my father was there wa
he royal martyr" N
This Rev. Charles Brockwell was, pro
20 l13S, the Episcopal minister at Scituaa
from which place-not without dissatlsE
,ion-he moved to Salem, and afterward,
early as TAG, to Boston, where, in bis ~
age, times went hard with him, as is chow
BY one of his letters to the Bishop OF -
Ion, wr item three years before his desu
'aying: within twelve months have -
lwo negroes who cost me $40 steflns
l have poor wife violently anl ~.
81 with rheumatism, and both lying un.
he disorders consequent to advaseS
Years, and she desiring to return home III III
he gloomy prospect that presents JUL
The eurvive-pOverty and age in 9
and. In En- gland she has some frenus
'eileve these distreeses, but here AIN.
has none" And thus he begs for
IN any obscure corner of your dlocesc,
poor. unfortunate man that never Cove.
riches, nor, with all his most diligent
,licatiOn, could escape poverty, exsfe
poverty" a.
Thus died the poor old rector OF
Kings chapel, who had only this vene,s.
Bible, souvenir of Charles Stuart, W.
With TO rfcompense his family physic's'
Boston Transcript.