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to offer " without money and without price , " to any man , or to any tAvo men , who can read them . They were the collection of a life time by the father of their present possessor , the energetic aud indomitable scholar , the late R . ev . John

Oxlee , Avell styled in the " Jewish Chronicle " " a profound student not only of Hebrew , but rabbinicnl literature in its most remote and abstruse ramifications , Avell versed in the cognate languages , a great linguist in generaland an eminent

, divine in particular ; " whom the " Clerical Journal " asserts " Avas a prodigy of HebreAv and rabbinical learning ; " to Avhose unrivalled knowledge of Avhat to most scholars is a totally unknown branch of learning , we have the repeated testimony of such

publications as the Journal of Sacred Literature , the Churchman ' s Companion , the Ecclesiastic and Theologian , the Christian Guardian and Church of England Magazine , the American Church Review , and the Jewish Messenger , with that of numerous learned divines ,

amongst whom I may mention Bishop Heber , Bishop Middleton , Bishop Burgess , Bishop Horsley , Dr . Mill , Dr . Routh , Dr . Knox , Dr . Coit , and Dr . Rowland Williams , —the latter of whom unhesitatingly declared that " the late learned and reverend John Oxlee kneAv more Hebrew than all

our generation of Bishops and Oxford Regius Professors collectively . " He had mastered , by his own unflagging industry and natural ability for learning , no less than one hundred and tAventy languages . Dr . Nicholl , the Regius Professor of HebreAv

at Oxford before Dr . Pusey , AvonderedhoAv Mr . Oxlee could have obtained the exceedingly rare books quoted in one of his works alone . Now , though I knoAv my dear old friend , the genial rector of CoAvesby , himself no mean scholar , Avould part with

his father ' s library "like blood from his heart , " as we say in Cleveland , yet it pains me to see it in its present situation , and I Avould strenuously recommend one of our wealth y universities to endeavour to purchase this invaluable treasure , which once

dispersed might never be collected together again ; and I would recommend my friend to sti pulate in disposing of it that it should oe kept for ever distinct , and known by the name of " The Oxlee Library , " so that this unrivalled collection of rabbinical and linguistic lore may be preserved for the use ° f future students , and as an enduring

monument of the gifted and learned divine who , unaided by wealth , gathered together in a Avell-spent life such a library as no other Briton possessed . Mr . Edward Stanford , the Avell-knoAvn publisher of Charing Crosshas just issued

, a IIOAV practical Guide to Carlisle , Gilsland , Roman Wall , and neighbourhood , from the pen of Henry Irwin Jenkinson , Fellow of the Roval Geographical and Royal Historical Societies , already favourably knoAvn to the public bhis Practical Guides to the

y Isle of Man and to the English Lake District , —a new edition of the latter being IIOAV in preparation . Some of the most stiring incidents in English History are so intimately connected with the district to which Mr . Jenkinson has become so

trust-Avorthy a guide , that his next pocket-A'olumeof 300 pages , Avithitsexcellent mapfor all Mr . Stanford ' s maps aregood—ought to command an extensive sale . " 'The historical facts , " the author tell us , •¦ have been gleaned from various sources , and the guiding matter is the result of a personal visit to every place mentioned . " The book is full of interesting and useful information ,

not only on the history and topography of the district , but there are good chapters added on Local Names , Geology , Mineralogy , and Botany . One of the hopeful signs of the times is , the increasing demand for good books on

Agriculture ; for I may repeat Avhat I have elsewhere * said , that "he that fosters or improves Agriculture benefits the human race ; for Avithout it , the world Avould become a sterile Avilderuess , unfit for the habitation of man . It is Agriculture—or

the art of cultivating the soil so as to make it produce the greatest quantity and the best quality of vegetables fit for the food of man and of domestic animals , or proper for the manufacture of raiment , of furniture , and such like , at the least cost — which

furnishes us Avith nearly all the necessaries , and most of the comforts , of life . It has turned many of our bleak moorlands into verdant pastures , and our Avaste marshes , by its power , have been changed , as by the Avand of a magician , from ague-breeding poison-beds , into fields Avaving with the golden grain . " Amongst the latest publications of Messrs . William Blackwood and