Valuable manuscripts of Goldsmith which have been on display in the Widener Library Treasure Room during the past week have given way to medieval French paintings on the nativity, while a collection of letters of Lord Nelson is soon to be removed to make way for more copies of twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth century manuscripts and paintings.

Perhaps the most beautiful feature in the collection is a group of reproductions of bibles written by monks of the thirteenth century, the pages of which are highly illustrated in brilliant colors. Two reproductions from the Bible Moralisee, which is a French work of the thirteenth century, show the pages from Matthew and Luke in which the story of the nativity is written, with the margin beside each verse illustrating the content with colored drawings. Another interesting group contains plates made from old paintings depicting the life of Christ as a monk of the twelfth century.

A book, written by an Italian of the sixteenth century, describing the story of the nativity is placed in a case beside Milton's poem "On the Morning of the Nativity" offering an interesting contrast in the literature of two nations and two centuries. Several reproductions from the Book of Hours of Joan 11, Queen of Navarre, offer further opportunity to study the fourteenth century style of illustrating the margins of books. The entire collection, most of which is reproductions of the work of the monks of the medieval times is interesting as well as beautiful, for the sketches and drawings in some of the manuscripts show the old medieval attempts to insert the greatest of detail into their works.