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98 Journal of Philology. Marginalia on Eusebius, by Bishop Pearson. If Pearson had been a copious writer, it might perhaps have been fairly considered superstitious to hoard every particle of his " dust/' without separating the " gold" from the less precious matter. But, even without the sanction of Bentley's judgement (a judgement pronounced, be it remembered, in a philological treatise upon philological merits), the scanty amount of Pearson's extant remains would surely justify a somewhat excessive care. Four volumes, which formerly belonged to him, and the margins of which contain sundry notes and corrections in his handwriting, are now in the Public Library at Cambridge. They are, as Archdeacon Churton kindly informs me, the books mentioned in the Memoir (p. xcviii.) prefixed to his edition of Pearson's Minor Theological Works, as apparently given to the Library by Archdeacon Allen, the Bishop's chaplain. Such, at least, Mr Churton believes to have been the account repeated to him some years ago by the late Dr Wordsworth. They are also mentioned, without a word as to the mode of their acquisition, at the end of the old Catalogue of MSS. belonging to the Library. One of them supplied Thirlby, in the year 1722, with the notes which he published at the end of his edition of Justin Martyr. This is all that I have been able to discover respecting their outward history. Beside Justin Martyr's works and those of the minor Apologists associated with him, they contain Eusebius's Prceparatio Evangelica, Demonstratio Evangelica, both treatises against Marcellas, and that against Hierocles, and also Photius's Bibliotheca. It was probably Pearson's constant habit to write marginal notes as he read: and, if so, many libraries in the kingdom may possess volumes exhibiting traces of his clear and vigorous pen. By keeping this probability in mind, much might still be recovered ; perhaps even the substance of those notes on St Epiphanius, of which Cave (Hist. Litt. i. 233, 4. Basileae. 1741.) expressly bewails the loss. The present number contains only notes on Eusebius. It will be seen that many of the best textual emendations coincide with the readings of fresh MSS. published by Dr Gaisford : but still a