The valuable library presented to Cornell by ex-President White contains some rare and costly books. The following clipping may interest our readers: -

"Among these books are several valumes from the press of Peter Schoeffer, three or four from that of Mentelin at Strasburg, the representatives of those of Ulrich Zell, Arnold Terhoernen and Bartholomaeus de Unket at Cologne, Zainer and Sorg at Augsburg, Creussmer and Koburger at Nuremberg, of Bartolomeo di Cremona, Ratdolf, John of Cologne and Scotus at Venice, of Caxton and Wynkyn de Norde and Pynson and Berthelet in England and of many other famous presses throughout Europe. Especially represented among these early books are those which throw light upon the development of natural science. Such are the editions of Aristotle, Pliny, Ptolemy and Albertus Magnus; oracular compends of Isidore, Hrabanus Maurus; the monkish encyclopedias of Vincent de Beauvais, of Bartholomaeus de Granville, of Jacobus Magnus, of Mathias Farinator, the speculations of Pierre d'-Ailly, Nicholas of Cusa and John Pico of Mirandola. This field of thought is still more richly represented among the books of the fifteenth century by the work of Agrippa and Paracelsus and their extravagant compeers. Whatever pertains to the superstition of science seems to have had for Mr. White an especial interest.

In his collection upon the sixteenth century, however, it is the Reformation and its forerunners to which more space is devoted. The contemporary editions of Erasmus, of the tracts poured forth in the controversy between Reuchlin and the Obscurantists, of the poems and orations and satires of Ulrich von Hutten, few are wanting. The mystical teachers, too, of the pre-Reformation period - Savonarola in Italy, Tauler and Geiler of Kaisersburg in Germany - are well represented by original impressions.

Of the leaders of the Reformation proper, the tracts and sermons of Luther count here by hundreds, while those of Zwingli, Melanchthon and Calvin, and Bullinger, Brentz, Bucer, Jonas, Bugenhagen, as of their opponents, Eck, Emser and Cochleus and Murner are only less numerous. Here is the first edition of the works of Zwingli, and the great Walch editions of those of Luther. - New York Star.