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AFTEH GLEANINGS ■OK TIIK LOG SHANTY BOOK-SHELF OF 181)t), It was imagined in 1895 that thereafter possibly the "Log Shanty Book- shelf" would cease to be a feature in the Pioneers' Cabin by a kind of neces- sity, but it has since been found that a number of miscellaneous books that had been overlooked or forgotten, still remained, which might have been included in one or other of the preceding "shelves." It was resolved, therefore, to make up one more so-called "shelf" out of these remainders, and even to prepare the way for a successor in the following year, should such an adjunct to the Pioneers' (Jabin still be re(|nired. As to the title " Log Shanty Book-shelf," it has on a former occasion been explained as being a reference to a feature often to be seen mi the log edilice of an original settler— a stout unplaned plank of pine resting on strong wooden pins driven into one of the solid logs of the building, up near the slope of the roof, — and here were to be seen perhaps the family Bible, with a few obscure volumes brought possibly by the original settler from his home in the old country, and some additions made from time to time of such scanty literature as was then procurable. It was iu a collection thus commenced years ago that the several Log Shanty Book-shelves that have been displayed iu the Pioneers' Cabin for a series of past years, had their origin and starting point. There have now been nine of these exhibitions ; the first was in 1887, and consisted of pioneer school books, aids to self-culture and the acciuisition of general knowledge. That in the year following was entitled, "The (Gatherings of a Not Forgetful Pioneer Emigrant from {Devonshire," tracts, pamphlets, guide books, legends, dialects, local histories, maps relating to the west of England^ eagerly secured and carefully garnered by the collector. The third, in 1889, was an assenddage of pioneer Bibles, that is to say, early printed Bibles froni many lanrei;;ti ; divide))er Canada College, brought with him on his arrival here in lS2!» a large tuiiuber of French school books, bound in this economical and durable way, which were duly introduced for use in the French cUusses. In this cast-off parch- ment dress, Levizac's grammar, a convenient little dictionary. The Henriade, Telemachus. (Jil Bias, Boileau, and other works first became known to us. The Henriade here given is another siiecimeii. La Henriade (in French), with Di8.sertation on the death of Henry IV. Paris: 1813. As a parallel to " La Henriade," a poem about Henri, i.e.. Henri i^uatre, the French king, I show a rude epic in six books, printed anonymously in London in 17W), entitled "The Bruciad," i.e., a poem on Bruce, namely Robert Bruce, the famous Scottish king. 6 AKTKIi (iLKANINCS Les Avfntures (If Tcoo. Albemarle street. London : John Murray, This was the Oreek jfra. nmr intro(hu;ecars, Mr. Kscott's forefathers fiad somethintf to do. The pasB.tjfe reut Is a.s follows :- "My paternal jfreai-^'reat-vrandfut^ter, (Jeorjfe Hweet, a lawyer of hi)fh local eminence, had, I believe, a home divided between Lord Palmerslon's old horou^h of Tixerton and l.aunceston, near which latter town he was possessed of a fine old count r\ seat. " Pcidiealc." This place will be perfectl\ familiar to many west country readers in the days when ii belontfed to m\- father's first cousin, Charles Sweet, and was rented by a memorable Cornish worthy, the late Rev. Henry Simcoe, who had established an industrial villajfe outside the park ifates, whose Heri'ulean form in it- old world costume, and whose tiusseled Hessian lKK)ts were familiar wherever between the Kxe and the Fal clerics met in confereni'e or S(|uires as8end)led in sesHion." At the time when the private printiniif press was set up, Pcnheale had become the property of the Kev. Mr. Sinu^oe, by purchase. The family .seat of his father, (Jen. SinuMie, with whose name Cantulians are familiar, was situatetl in Hevonshire, not far from the town of Honiton. This spacious residence was known as Wolfonl, anr press establishwl there, I have place(in>f has been forufotten ; the true end is the nlorifyinjf of (io. With emblematical engraved title page. \ 8 AFTKR (JLEAMNtSS ThiH voluiiu' r'ontiiiiiH the l>oi>k-()late of '" William Walfott, Ks(|r»'.," arclati\e, from whom Henry Wulrott deriveil his haptiNinal name. Mr. Walcott residetl at Onndell, in Northampton- Hhire. Hi' wan a (liNtinKniM)u-erhl_v hound. " In DilNlin's Keminiflt-enc^eM, of a Literary Ll.e," 18311, Vol. I, p. 5(il, there is'a reference to Mr. Wal<'ott. I,onl Spenc*, writinjc in 1813, informs Mr. DilKtin that Mr. Walcott, g( Oiindell, hul lately liroiiKht to him a copy of the MoniilicM, printed liy Whitchurch, in \ery pretlNcondition, and admirably printed in the Mack letter for the periinl. " 1 ){ralefully reniemher that Mr. Walcott forwarded to me, here in Canada, when I was yet hul a Htriplin^', in order to encoiiraKc me in my Htiulie.s, (Jeo. Kinher'H 'The YotniK' Man's HeHt (,'ompanion '. AlltiouKh this identical copy Hom been mislaid by me, I have mipplie \nih him. I lu'Vt luld some of Mr llvnicrs' workM, also iiicliidt'il hi-i'f. (I) A Trt'iitiHf till Trigonometry, with h xtU'ctinii of iirolilt-niN and thtir KolutioiiM, liy .1. Hymtrs, lt.lt., KtOlow ami Tutor of Si .lohiiN CoIIck*-, Ciimbridiff. ( amhridxe : I'liiviTHHv I'rtss, 1H41. i'i) The funeral Mernion of Mmifuret, ( 'oiinteMn of Hfchniond and Der/ty. mother to Kiiitf Henry VII., and foundrcKM of ChrisiHu ? John's Colle^fe, Canilirid-.'e; jireafheilhy HiNhoji Kisherin l.'^inil. with Baker's i)refar, Hyniern' hooks I place two workH iin!«K'iated witli the names of t\vodiHtin),'nished personajren with whom, at all events, I was well wcjtiuiiitet' h.\ ni^ht (II "Ohservations on the StatiiteH of »he Iniver-ify of Camhridjre," hy Oeoiye Peacoek, l>.|).. V.l'.K.K., etr. London: 1841. (■2) A \ohinie once the [irojierty of Prof. Sedj^t > .^. and containinif his autoKraph and nian\ nnder-scorinjfs ma Sduiation," hy the Rev. VViUium Whewell, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Lalle^fe, Canil ridift London : 183S. The Cyropaulia of Xenophon (in (Jreek). Lonrlon : ITti'J. " Prostant apiid viduani .lonae Howyer, aen of u it)rnier owner, the well- known Regius Professor of Greek in the University .f ('amlirid),'e. It is for the sake of its con- nection with this eminent scholar that 1 jireserve and here trunscrihe a characteristic letter in the handwritinn' of the Rev. t'has. Simeon, addres.-*eed to j)lant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the i)lain, No more through rollitig clouds to .soar again, V'iew'd his own feutliers on that fatal dart, Aiid winged the shaft that (juiver'd in his heart. Keen were his i)angs ; but keener far to feel. He nursed the pinion which impell'd the steel ; While the same plumage that had warnuMl his nest, Drank the last life-drops oi his bleeding breast." With Kirke White I place a work by his friend, Capel LofTt, Endosia or a Poem on the Universe. London : 1781. Solutions of the Examples Api)ended to a Treati.se on the Motion of a Rigid B(jf his year. I was so fortunate as to accjuire his friendship at St .lohn's, and was in t he habit of staying with him at his Vicarage on several later visits to England. I transcribe from autograph letters of his a sentence or two, dated : Ottpringe Vicarage, F.WKRsiiAM, 15th October, 1891. "This is about the time of year fifty-eight years ago when you and I were ' first accjuaint, and let us repeat the remembrances of our doing our Euclid together before Mr. Hughes, and ovr Protagoras before Mr. Merivale, yet flourishing as Dean of Ely, and our Scripture subject with Mr. B'lshby. How deeply the eventsand people of those daysare impressed on my memory. I dometinies think that there can never have been an equal space of time so full of momentous events as the sixty years which you and 1 can trace since we began to be observers of men and things about us. As for ('ambridge, what an extension the studies have taken, what a new race of teachers, married men dwelling away from college, college lectures open to other collejxes, oven to ladies I I have still confidence that the heart of Cambridge is sound, holding the faith and maintaining good works, and that a stream of good men continues to flow out to 12 AFTER GLEANINGS. a wider riuiKe of einplDynu'iit, and not so largely for Holy Ordere as in our time. Here 1 joy; on, with some strenjfth left for my plicat. It was while going my rounds for this iHirjujse, under his direction, that I had a memorable interview with the famous Master of Trinity, Dr. Whewell. This took place at the Master's Lodge, and I found the Doctor most complaisant and friendly, and exhibiting an especial interest in a candidate for D. D. hailing from Canada. Wordsworth's Apocalypse in Greek, with new translation, scripts. London : 1849. Facsimiles of the oldest nianu- This Christo])her Wordsworth was the son of Dr. Wordsworth and nephew of the poet Wordsworth. The latter waa a member, not of Trinity, but of St. John's, where in the Retiring room of the Fellows his portrait hangs by the side of that of Wilberforcc, Herschel, Palmerston, Henry Martyn and others (for portraits of Johnian worthies generally, e.ff., Ben •lonson. Lord Burleigh. Bentley, etc., see Beynon's Memorial of St. John's College, publisheericKli('al Dickens' amusing' " I'nconnnerfial " first appeared. I have fiis name at full lenffth attachepende(l to a world-wide known name for a moment startled the mind as lieinj,' somethinj; incoiij^rni)!!^. When Dickens visited North .Vmerica in 1842 I was so fortimateas to have a pleasant interview with him and his wife at Toronto. In 1842 Martin (."hu/zelwitt, Domhey & Son, Nicholas Niekleby. and the other works on which the reimtation of Dickens was solidly hiiill up had not yet ayipeared, and I, consequently, was not so deeply impressed with his jfenerai i)ers()nnfl as I should prohulily have been at a later date. I placte with "The Tnconunercial Traveller" a small pocket copy of Goldsmith's Kssays, an atflnity between the two humorists seeminjf to me (piite striking. The Childhood and Youth of Charles Di<'kons, by Robert Laii>{ton. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1891. This work consists of retrospective notes, tracitiff references to his own history iti the works of Dickens, with ei(fhty-two wood-cut illustrations embracinir numerous views of Kochester in Kent, Chatham, Cobhani, Gads Hill, etc., spots rendered familiar to me durinjf pilgrimages made aforetime to Canterbury, Dover and Folkestone. A Lecture on Heads, by Geo. Alex. Stephens, with additions by Mr. Pilon, as delivered by Mr. Charles Lee Lt'wis, to which is ar. inves- tiKation or pro'essional study. This important work foimed Vol. Kio of Har]>er"s family library. Chap-hooks. .\ volinne of popular sonars printed at .Vewcastle-upon-Tyne, Alnwick & Stir- ling, with rude w()iece are the words ' The .New Testament," in 48 ditferent languages, each represented in its proper character or letter Ijpe. At the bottom of the title-page is the Latin line, " .Multae terricolis linguae, coelestibus una," accompanied by a lint? in (Jreek to the same elTect, vi/.., " PoUai men timet )is glottal, miad, athanatoisi," "Among mortals are many tongues, but one alone among the immortals." The Pollai glottal suggested to the publisher, Bagster, the title Polly-glot given to his well known larger edition of the Holy Scriptures in various languages. With the I'oly- niicrian Greek Testament here shewn is placed the English Polymicrian Testament of the same series. Bagster's Miniature Concordance and Lexicon of the Greek Testament. London • 1830. rTTsi^rmmssamm 16 AFTER GLEANINGS. Pickering's Miniature Greek Testament. London : 1828. (Frontispiece, fine reduction of Leonardo-da-Vinci's Last Supper.) William RoberUon's Compendious Hebrew Lexicon or Dictionary ; with such eas\- directions for learning the language as that any knowing Christian, man or woman, of ordinar\ capacity may learn to read the Hebrew Bible, and that without a teacher. London : 1654. At the back of the title page appears the " Imprimatur," Edmund Calamy. Epictetus in Greek. Leyden, 1770. Theophrastus in Greek. Leyden, 1653. Psalms of David, in French ; by Clement Marot & Beza, 1642. (With musical notes of the tunes.) " Parmlise Lost," Pickerings miniature e<]ition, 1835. The Me