The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-13
THE TRINITY LIBRARY
Many Valuable Additions to
English Literature.
Probably The Most Complete Collection Of lis
Kind South Of Baltimore Very USE
full to Advanced Students.
Especial to News and Observer.


Durham, n. c., May l2.-Numerous ac
cessions have recently been made to the
college library. These books come from
various sources There is a library fund
for the purchasing CT books and the pur-
chases are made twice a year, one in the
autumn and the other in the spring. The
library Of the late Rev Isaac Avent has
lately been received. considerable
number of books has been added to the
collection in Biblical literature from the
AVera fund. But the bulk CT the new
books are for the collection in English
literature. Most of these were got
through the agents of the library in
England and on the Continent. An eff
fort is being made to get for the library
the best edition of every text of the Old
English, every published text OF Middle
English, and every piece OF Elizabethan
literature 1t is hoped that in the col
lection when finished, may be found a
copy of every piece of English literature
that has ever been published from the
beginning of our literature TO the middle
Of the seventeenth century. Many OF these
books are rare and hard to get. About Il
thousand volumes have already come to
| the library and orders are outstanding in
London and Germany.
The collection will be particularly full
| in the fourteenth century. the seed time
Of English literature and institutions, and
| in the Eizabethan age, the towering
period of English poetry. The collection
| will not only contain the texts them
| selves but win be rich in antiquarian
writings affording students access, not
only to the sources but also to books en-
folk lore and literary history. Facilities
! will be complete for the study Of Chaucor,
the first great English poet. and Shake
spere. the greatest of all English poets.
Orders have been given for editions of
every book of any real literary value or
! interest in the seventeenth or eighteenth
centuries. not already in the library and
the collection in the prolific nineteenth
century will be made as complete as pos
sible
Some of the more important of the new
books include the publications of the
Early English Text Society and the
Chaucer Society. both founded and pro-
noted by the famous English scholar DR..
+. j. Furnivall. These two sets in over
four hundred volumes contain critical
| 6QlIlOnS Oh the pieces VI lllCl dNuLC VI -
ten in the fourteenth and fifteenth cen
turtles. Another valuable set of books is
the monumental edition of English and
Scottish Popular Ballads. in ten parts
edited by the late Prof. F. w. Child, OF
Harvard. One other set that deserves
mention is the Dictionary Of National
Biography. edited by Leslie Stephen and
Sidney Lee, containing sixty three vol
umes. These three sets Of books perhaps
represent the three greatest achievements
of English scholarship in the Nineteenth
| century.
This collection of books will very likely
be the most complete collection on tn s
subject in the country south of Baltimore.
! Advanced students CT English can find
access to all necessary library facilities
now without going to Northern Universe
ties, if they choose to come here.