Books afford Consolation to the troubled Mind, by substituting a lighter kind of Distress for its own.—They are productive of other Advantages:—An Author's hope of being known in distant Times.——Arrangement of the Library.—Size and Form of the Volumes.—The antient Folio, clasped and chained.—Fashion prevalent even in this Place.-— nThe Mode of publishing in Numbers, Pamphlets, &c.—Subjects of the different Classes.——Divinity.—Controversy.—The Friends of Religion often more dangerous than her Foes.—Sceptical Authors.—Reason too much rejected by the former Converts; exclusively relied upon by the latter.——Philosophy ascending through the Scale of Being to Moral Subjects.——Books of Medicine: Their Variety, Variance, and proneness to System: The Evil of this, and the Difficulty it causes:—Farewell to this Study.——Law;—The increasing Number of its Volumes.—Supposed happy State of Man without Laws.—Progress of Society,——Historians; their Subjects.——Dramatic Authors, Tragic and Comic.——Ancient Romances.—The Captive Heroine.—Happiness in the perusal of such Books: why.——Criticism.—Apprehensions of the Author: Removed by the appearance of the Genius of the Place; whose Reasoning and Admonition conclude the Subject.