Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-17

and Cations vie with examples of the
press of Laurens Costey of Haurlen
and with books printed at the Aldine
presses at Venice and elsewhere from
1875 to 1898.
First Book In English.
the only perfect copy known Of the
gauge. 1.-The RecuveIl Of the His
toryes of Troye," Bruges, 1475.
Wynken de Worde, Cations success
SCR. Is represented by sixty speci-
mems.
Early printed books include a num-
Der of Gospels Of St. John; Greek and
Latin classics; early works OF the
church fathers; romances; the only
edition Of Aristotle (14s3), described
RS the most beautiful book In the
world. and the Henry VIII Golden
by an Anglo-saxon scribe In $40:
OF great antiquity are Chaldean,
Assyrian and Babylonian tablets. as
are single leaves of Greek and Assy-
rian papyri, dated from the third GEN.
tury before the Christian era.
Fine Coptic Manuscripts.
The collection OF Coptic manu-
clared by the present Pope to be the
finest in existence The library con-
tains almost complete sets Of Eliza
bethian and Jacobean first editions.
early editions. Also there are Milton.
Thomas Moore, Waller and Burton.
Among. the English manuscripts are
Thackeray, including ali that exists
Dickens, Keats, Shelley, Meredith.
Bulwer-Lytton, Scott. Defoe. Blake,
Bunyan, Meana, du Maurier. Reade,
Bronte, Boswell, Lamb. Moore, Camp
bell, johnson and Nelson.
Americans hold an important place
IN the library. There is the only ex-
listing copy Of Longfellow's transla-
Boston 1869 imprint: the only other
copies-there were two-were de-
stroyed in the Chicago fire.
Brief History OF New York.
Denton's Brief Description of New
York. 167O.' Is not less Quaint than
Horsmanden's journal OF the Pro-
ceedings in the Detection Of Con-
spiracy Formed by Some White Peo-
pie. in Conjunction With Negro and
Other Slaves. for Burning the City
of New York" (Matthews, New York,
1744)
There are complete sets OF auto
Earph letters and manuscripts Of the
signers Of the Declaration Of Inde--
pendence and of the negotiators Of
the treaty Of Yorktown, including one
from CORVALLIS to Gen. Washington,
and others signed by Laurens, Greene
and Lafayette.
Other Washington letters are ad-
dressed to George and James Clinton,
Madison, Jefferson and to the King
OF Prussia and Emperor Of Germany,
asking for the release Of Lafayette.
Writings by Lincoln.
IL \
poem entitled THE Bear Hunt"
represent Lincoln. while things in the
hands Of Cleveland. and Roosevelt
also are on the shelves. Other Ameri-
cans are Hawthorne. Poe, Thoreau,
Holmes. Whitman, Harte, Lowell and
The French collection traces a his
tory of the French court and Of
French art, Bibles, psalters and gos-
pels range from the Eighth to TIE
of Louis XIV shares place with the
volume from which Napoleon learned
the rudiments of mathematics.
In drawers and: Golfers are original
drawings and wash studies by mas
ssS Of the itSa ana
from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth.
century: etchinSs by Rembrandt: and
his pupils; Mezzottnts from 1912 until
modern times: prints and engravings.
SLlSlF6S are QeSOlcu~ ~ OOohS oL sbh0
about caricature, costume art and
porcelain. playing cards and games
and travel:
Has Palatinl Building.
The entire collection is housed in
"a palatial building, the work of
Charles F. McKim. 1t is about 100
by rs feet, of classic design and SIM
plicity and of white marble through
out. In the deed conveying the prop
erty to the trustees, they are empow-
cred to buy works of art and to es-
.4ablish an art gallery to provide