TRANSLATION OF THE PHILOBIBLON

The translation of Richard de Bury's *Philobiblon*, by Mr. Inglis, printed in 1832 for the late Mr. Rodd, is an unsatisfactory performance. The version is bald and spiritless, and some of the best passages of the original are rendered in language that does no justice to the author's meaning. His style is so peculiar, so allusive, and so full of metaphor and quotation, and the work is luminous with "the sparks of so many sciences," that a good translation is a desideratum. I may inform your correspondent that one has lately been prepared and is announced for publication, with a memoir of the il…