"A mighty maze of walks without a plan."

In Byron's copy of Ossian's Poems are a number of critical and eulogistic notes which seem to have shown Byron's great appreciation of Macpherson's talent as a poet, and this appreciation is more directly shown by the fact that Byron gives a rythmical version of Ossian's address to the sun, beginning thus:

"O thou! who rollest in you azure field

Round as the orb of my forefather's shield -

Whence are thy beams?"

This poem is said to be unpublished. There is also a book published in Mexico in 1566 and the card states that the library contains no book printed in America before this. Perhaps the most interesting of Americana is the "earliest engraved map" which was supposed to follow the map made by Columbus, now lost. The date is 1508.

Among the other interesting curiosities is a Hebrew Bible used by President Dunster. It contains on a fly-leaf a note by Josiah Quincy, stating that this "valuable relic" will be carefully preserved in the archives of the college library associated as it is with the memory of one of its earliest, most faithful, highly esteemed and learned presidents and benefactors.

This is but a brief summary of the contents of a room whose every nook discloses some rare and antique object. To give but a list of what it contains would fill a volume.

R.