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Recent Additions to the Library of the British Museum. 109 Close to the Thumb Bible is another very rare edition of the scriptures, a fragment containing Genesis to Joshua, xv., of the Lithuanian Bible, printed in London about 1660. The Lithua- nian Protestants, it seems, were poor and oppressed, and they sent over one of their number, S. B. Chylinski, to beg the English people to print for them an edition of the Bible in their native language. The funds were found, but Chylinski appears to have made away with some of them, and the translation was never completed. A larger fragment is preserved at the Ecclesiastical Library, at St. Petersburg, and until this copy was discovered was considered to be unique. The next English-printed book in date to the Lithuanian Bible here exhibited, is a school magazine, The Flagellant, " avowedly written," as the preface tells us, " by Westminster Boys," and published in 1792. Like most school magazines, it enjoyed but a short career, and brought at least one of its editors into trouble. This was Robert Southey, whose autograph the present copy bears, and who, for a whimsical paper de- nouncing " the beastly and idolatrous custom of flogging," was very unjustly expelled. Another magazine here shown, also enriched with autograph notes, is a copy of The Dial, published at Boston, Massachusetts, between 1841 and 1844, with Emerson as one of its chief contributors. In this copy, against the table of contents, he has placed the names of the respective authors of most of the articles. The first edition of Nathaniel Haw- thorne's earliest novel, Fanshawe, is another treasure from across the Atlantic. It was published anonymously, and is the rarest of all his works. With this may be ranked the Simonidea, of Walter Savage Landor, published at Bath, also anonymously, in 1806. Both these are good possessions for an English Library, but the interest of both wanes before that of another recent ac- quisition, a copy, one of the six printed, and the only one which has survived of Enid and Nimue : the true and the false. By Alfred Tennyson. This was printed in 1857, and is a trial-version of two of the Idylls of the King (Enid and Vivien] which the poet submitted to the criticism of a few of his friends. It contains a sprinkling of lines, different from those in the published version, and the author is seen at work in his own autograph corrections in this copy. Besides the books we have mentioned, there are two inter- esting specimens of South American printing, two early operas, to represent the musical section of the Library, a Corean atlas,