The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-08-22
YALES GREAT LIBRARY.
MANY INTEREsiIS6 HOOKS AND
 MAHUSCRIPTs FOUND HERE.

Busts of Men Formerly Prominently Identified With Yale-An Incident From Yale's History-James Pierponrs Chair.
 There is no force which Is exerting more powerful formative influence on the mind of the country than the great libraries. New Haven is fortunate in having In her midst one of the most complete and extensive libraries in the country. The Yale library contains over l65.00O volumes, and In a separate part of the building is the Linonian and Brothers library. a collection of over ,0.o00 volumes In general literature.
 In the main hall and the reading room of the Chittenden Memorial libra ry. which are the parts of the library the most visited by those interested in the university. contain many articles of interest. Besides the generous gifts of old books and manuscripts, which were given by Prof. James M. Hoppin. of the Yale Art school. and Mir Loring W. Andrews. of New York. which were described in preceding article. there are several other old and inter- esting manuscripts which have come Into the possession of the university at different times. Among them are the following:
 A manuscript on vellum containing part of the Psalter (date unknown); the roll of the Pentatuch" in Hebrew, presented by J. W. Barnes, Esq, 1869; an Arabic manuscript of the Koran, each page being brilliantly illuminated with the grotesque Arabic art. It Is the property of the American Oriental soci- ety; a manuscript entitled "Speculum Humane Salvationis," containing Bi- ole stories in Latin hymns, each page being illustrated. It Is perhaps five hundred years old, and was the gift of Governor Elihu Yale, 1715; Chinese manuscript prepared for use in the lit- srary examinations, presented by Dr. M. c. White; piece of ancient Egyp- tian papyrus; the first edition of Mil tons Paradise Lost" printed at Lon don in 1869 by s. Simmons, and sold by T. fielder at the Angel in Little Brit ain;" also the first edition of Paradise Regained," printed at London in 1871 by J. M. for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleet street, near Temple Bar; the second folio edition of Spencer's Faerie Queene, with the first folio edition of his other poems printed in 1911; Henry De Braeton's De Legibus Angliae,"
 al al of Michael Drayton; and the Romaunt de la Rose, written in the fourteenth cen tury, from which source Chaucer drew his famous poem of the same name.
 There Is also in the library a fac simile of the famous Rosetta stone, which was discovered about a century ago, and by which linguists were first enabled to decipher the Egyptian hier- oglyphics of the tombs and monuments. On the upper part of the stone is an Egyptian inscription and below is a translation. The scholars were enabled to translate the Greek and thus got the key to the picture language of the an- cient Egyptians. ,.;-,"
 Here also are the busts of Prof. Larned QS06-1S62); President Day Q773- 1S6O; Prof. Silliman Q774-1S6D and the Hon. Henry Farnam.
 Just at the entrance of the reference library on pedestal of elm wood rests the bust of President Theodore Dwight Woolsey. On 8 bronze plate is the Latin inscription:
 VIRO.ILLVSTRI IN HONOREM HANG. EFFIGIEM ET.FACIENDAM CVRAVIT.ET .COLLEGIO. YALENSI. DONO.DEDIT. EDVARDIVS.PIERR POINT. .DISCIPLIVS AMICVS.MAGIS- TRVM. SWIM. OLIM. VAL DE.ADMIRANS.
 A.STVS. .GAVDENS.F
 Edwards Pierrepont, '37, friend and disciple, formerly and up to the present time strongly admiring his teacher, caused this bust to be made in honor of an illustrious man, and gave 1t for a gift to Yale college.
 A. St. Gaudens, Sculptor)
 In the reference library is the bust of Simeon Baldwin Chittenden, the donor of the building.
 The annals of Yale college for the year 1744-45 contain some interesting notes. They were as follows: "The year 1744-45 opened with vote of the General Assembly in October to expend f5OO old tenor in new covering the roof and sides of the rector's house, besides repainting it and filling the windows with sash glass;"
 In the same month Rector Clap be- came engaged in a controversy with Jonathan Edwards respecting White fields attitude towards the New Eng land clergy. Clap had understood (mistakenly) from Edwards that White field had a design of supplanting the New England ministers by those of his own type, imported from Britain. The simultaneous arrival of Whitefeld in Maine and the increasing loudness of the opposition to his measures, gave point to this discussion, which in turn helped to inflame public opinion.
 An unfortunate case of discipline in the college caused additional excite ment.
 Two brothers, John and Ebenezer Cleayeland, twenty-two and one-half and eighteen and one-half years of age one in the senior year and the other tust admitted as a freshman, had, dur ing a part of the vacation following commencement, absented themselves in their parents company from the stated public worship of the church to which they belonged in Canterbury, Connecti- cut, and had attended religious meet ings conducted by layman at pri- vate house. Such meetings were ille- gal; and the rector and tutors on Mo- vember 19 ordered the Cleavelands to