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Smith, by J. Freeman; William, Lord Russell, by J. N. Horne; John Dryden, by J. Hudson; Abraham Cowley, by Stephen Slaughton; Henry Spelman, by J. N. Horne, very excellent; John Ray, and Richard Bentley, by Hudson. The

windows are embellished with the arms, in stained glass, of several noble personages. Among them is one on the west, presented by the late Duke of Gloucester, and executed by Messrs. Hancock and Rixon, London.

There are two Combination-rooms. The principal is a spacious room, ornamented with the following portraits :- Charles Seymour, Duke of Somerset and Chancellor of the University, a finely executed picture, by Danse; John, Marquis of Granby, leaning on his horse, attended by a black groom, a very fine painting, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; an original portrait of Sir Isaac Newton; a good wholelength portrait of Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, who was a student of this College, by Opie; one of Augustus-Frederic, Duke of Sussex, by Lonsdale, presented to the College, in 1818, by his Royal Highness. Also one of the Marquis Camden, the present Chancellor of the University, by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Here is also a fine bust of Dr. Richard Hooper, over the door.

The Library forms the western side of Nevile's Court, and was erected from the designs of Sir Christopher Wren, at an expense of nearly 20,000Z., the greater part of which was collected through the

strenuous exertions of the celebrated Dr. Isaac Barrow when Master of this College.* This building is one of the best specimens of classical architecture in this empire. The elevation towards the Court, which is richly ornamented with pilasters, chapiters, architraves, and festoons of fruit and flowers, is divided into two stories by attached columns of the Doric and Ionic orders. The whole is crowned by a handsome stone balustrade, in the centre of which are emblematical statues of Divinity, Law, Physic, and Mathematics, executed by Gabriel Cibber (the father of Colley Cibber, the Poet Laureate) who became so deservedly celebrated for the two figures of Raging, and Melancholy Madness, on the gates of Old Bethlehem Hospital. In the centre arch of the lower story is a fine bas-relief of Ptolemy receiving the new Greek version of the Scriptures from the seventy interpreters. The elevation towards the walks has an air of majestic simplicity: the principal decorations are three doorways, flanked by columns, and surmounted by entablatures of the Doric order. Beneath this noble structure is a spacious piazza, supported by numerous pillars, and opening towards the walks with three gates of wrought iron.

The entrance to the Library is at the north end of the piazza, by a spacious staircase, wainscotted with cedar, and having an enriched roof. A flight of

The principal contributors were Dr. Barrow, Dr. Humphrey Babington, Senior Fellow, and Sir Thomas Sclater, Bart.

black marble steps conducts to the interior. In the vestibule is placed a curious collection of ancient marbles and inscriptions, given by Sir John Cotton: a tablet affixed to the wall has a Latin inscription to the following import :-"These Roman monuments, collected from every quarter of the northern part of England by the eminent antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton, and deposited at his seat of Conington, in Huntingdonshire, were removed hither in the year 1750, at the expense of Sir John Cotton, of Stratton, Bart." The famous Sigean inscription, bequeathed to the Society by Edward Wortley Montague, is preserved with these antiquities, together with a bust of that eccentric character, executed at the expense of his daughter Mary, Countess of Bute, by Scheemaker. Here is likewise an ancient stone, with a Greek inscription, brought from the Archipelago, and presented to the College by Mr. Hawkins, of Cornwall; and a Roman mile-stone, given by Richard Gough, Esq. in 1799. This last was found in digging a drain near Water Newton, about five miles from Stilton in Huntingdonshire. It bears the name of the Emperor Marcus Annius Florianus, who succeeded his brother Tacitus, A.D. 276, and reigned only two or three months, being murdered by his own soldiers. From the short period of this Emperor's reign, it appears probable that this mile-stone is the only memorial of him in England. It is certainly a scarce and very valuable relic of antiquity.

The Library is entered through folding-doors at the north end; whence the elegance and beauty of the room burst at once upon the eye. The length of this splendid repository (which is scarcely surpassed by any other appropriated to a similar purpose in Europe) is 190 feet, the breadth 40, and the height 38. The south end is terminated by folding-doors, opening to a balcony; over which is a window of painted glass, for the execution of which 500l. was bequeathed by Dr. Robert Smith, formerly Master. The window was painted by Mr. Peckitt, of York, from a design of Cipriani. The subject represents the presentation of Sir Isaac Newton to George III., who is seated under a canopy, with a laurel chaplet in his hand, and attended by the British Minerva, who is apparently advising him to reward merit in the person of the great Philosopher. Below the throne is the celebrated Bacon, in his robes, with a pen and book, as if preparing to register the reward about to be bestowed on Sir Isaac. The original drawing, which cost 100 guineas, is preserved in the Library. Not only, however, is the glare of the colouring out of keeping with this beautiful edifice, but it must also be allowed the chronological incongruity of the design is as absurd as could well be imagined.

This magnificent gallery is floored with black and white marble, alternately disposed in diagonal slabs,

* A person attends every day (except Sunday) to shew the Library to strangers.

and the walls are adorned with Corinthian pillars and a rich cornice. Ranged on each side of the room on handsome pedestals, are the following busts, exquisitely sculptured by Roubiliac:

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The Library is divided into thirty spacious classes, disposed in cases of oak, elegantly carved with armorial bearings, by the celebrated Gibbons. On the top of each case is a well-executed marble bust.

Right side.

1. JOHN MILTON

2. John Dryden
3. Alexander Pope
4. Joseph Addison
5. John Fletcher
6. Francis Beaumont

7. Edmund Spenser
8. William Shakspeare
9. Inigo Jones

10. Dr. Thomas Sydenham
11. Archbishop Tillotson

Left side.

1. HOMER

2. Virgil

3. Horace

4. Marcus Aurelius

5. Seneca

6. M. Brutus

7. Julius Cæsar

8. Cicero

9. Demosthenes 10. Plato

11. Socrates

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