Xotlres of Hrrtntological Vnblirntlons.

THR ART TREASURES OP LAMBETH LIBRARY, a Description of the Illumi- nated Manusciipts, &c., including Notes on the Library, by S. V. Kiii:snAW, M.A., Librarian. Svo. London: Pickering, 1873. TnAT good work which the late Dr. Miiitland ahlj performed in regard to the " early printed books in Lambeth Librarj', ^ii'- Kershaw has done carefully and well for " the illuminated MS8., and some of the illustrated books which have never Ikjcu specially described," in that famous collec- tion. Mr. Kershaw's volume, however, contains more than a description of these rarities. Eighteen pages of it are occupied by " Notes on the Library, and by an " introductoiy " chapter on "the significance of illuminated MS.S. in their relations to history, symbolimi, and practical uses. Then follows a concise exjtlanation of the terms Missal, Breviarv, Gradual, Psalter, aud Houi-s, and allusions to certain examples of these classes of Service books now existing at Lambeth. The " Notes " afford some interesting details respecting, e. g. the foundation of the Archiej)is- copal Library by Archbishop Bancroft, in IGIO ; its augmentation by his successor, Abbot ; its loss, by plunder, of the books and MSS. of Arch- bishop Laud,' in 1044 ; the removal, after that Primate's impeachment, of its remaining volumes to C'ambi-idge at the suggestion of Selden ; their reclamation by Archbishop Juxon, in 1GG0-(J3 ; and their rein- statement at Lambeth by Archbishop Siieldon, in 1678. The Library, we are informed by Mr. Kershaw, has been subsequently increased by the bequests of Archbishops Sheldon, Tenison, Seeker, Manners-Sutton, and Howley, and now comprises 1,300 volumes of MSS. (which are divided into seven sets or series, named after their respective donore) and, altogether, nearly 30,000 books which, in 1828, were deposited by Arclibishop Howley in his Palatial Banqueting Hall, which was rebuilt by Archbishop Juxon soon after the Restoration. In addition to the above particulars, the " Notes " contain a graceful tribute to the ser- ' One of the mortal crimes alleged by severall shapes and formes, with glories Prynne against Laud, was the ofiFence of about their heads, and sometimes crosses having '"tweutie two i-mall Popish Houres on their backs, and the Holy Ghost in of our Lady, Breviaries, Mauualls, Prayer form of a dove ; pretty- babies for young bookes, standing altogether in a Ijlinde children to play with, but most insuffer- corner of his 8tu<ly," and '• Beverall louse able puppets, for an old childish super- l)icture8 in tine vellum .... gloriously stitious Archbishop seriously to dote on, aud curiosly guilded and set forth with if not to reverence, adore, and kindle his uwsi esipiisite colours, some having one, private devotions by." (Jauterburie's others, two or throe pictures apeece in Doome, fol. 1645, p. 66. them, of Clirist aud the Virgin Mary in