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hand writing &C rcnclol an ancient manuscript Of
Homer aud petrarchs manuscript of Virgil.


In fact, any description OF this splendid institu
tion can give hui il very imperfect idea. 1t would
take week 10 it as it ought 10 be seen; and any
person whose taste lies that way, will it with in
creased pleasure every time.


This magnificent library is open TO the world
eratu,ously tables are laid in each saloon for the
accommodation OF those who want to read ; and if
YOU should wish to take notes or extracts, to any
extent you are supplied grautousy, also, with pens.
ink, Slc.---a grant OF money being made annually by
the Government for this purpose. In each saloon
are servants in the Kings livery, regularly station
ed, alr ready to hand you in moment any work III
He entire building you may wish to call for. 70
the public in general, or TO those who so merely to
look and lounge through the saloons it is open only
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays /; but to
those who wish 10 read and TO foreigners it is open
everyday Sundays excepted,) and crowded with
persons oi every rank and class Of life, from the
highest 10 the lowest, following and cutvating the
peculiar bent o. their genus-nlany of them, per-
haps, destined to enrich, by their future produc-


tions, the very fountain from which they are now


SO freely and abundantly permitted to draw.
4 From want Of facilities and advantages like this, how


many strong aud brilliant geniuses have remained
| hidden forever and unknown How applicable are


those allegorlcal and Oft quoted lines OF the poet


"Full many gem of purest ray serene,
The dark untatlumcd caves of ocean bear.
i Full many flower is born to blush unseen,
i And waste its sweetness on the desert air"
Il This is not. however, the only library open gra-


tuitously in Paris there several others, o


which the principal are The Royal Library o


the Arsenal" containing about hundred ant


eighty thousand volumes, rich in historians ant
!, poets, chiefly Italian The Library Of the Pan
III theon of st. GenevIeve,' hundred and twent,
"a thousand volumes The Mazarin Library" on
!. hundred thousand volumes = The Library of tn
e City OF Paris about fifty thousand volumes be


sides several others attached to particular nstitt
l. tons.


II, Any person who is inclined to range through tl
n regions OF literature by the shortest paths, and wit
= the greatest advantage, should certainly come
on France Here, he has not only those regions throw
Id open 10 bin 10 the most boundess extent but he
al also provided with skui guides He has At ono
the advantage Of the ablest learned vlng and Of Il
h, uStrious learned dead