Mr. Craig has, however, other claims to reminis cence, besides that derivable from book-luxuries. He banquetizes like a thorough "large-paper man.' Everything is upon an extensive as well as recherché scale. It was a day of joyance that eight of us once had with him; while Mr. Cosmo Innes, on the stool of " repentance,”* sat at the bottom of the table as Vice-President. At top, to the left of the master of the banquet, between him and myself, there sat the finest creature that ever ran upon all-fours, of the

the Catalogue of Lord Eldin's Pictures and Books. Of the former, a word or two shall be said hereafter. The latter were sold by Mr. Charles Tait-the Evans of Edinburgh. The accident above alluded to, and which is most minutely and pathetically described by a Mr. Howell, who published an account of it, took place on the last day of the sale of the pictures by a Mr. Winstanley, of Liverpool. At two o'clock the whole floor of the first story, where the auction took place, fell in...a depth of sixteen feet:-"all heads became white in a moment; all clothes of one colour: even the voice was altered by the dust that had been inhaled. It was with difficulty that the company recognized each other; and lime and dust as much assailed those who had not fallen as those who had." This is the language of the publisher. Two lost their lives. Several were severely bruised. The accident arose from the joices giving way beneath the pressure of a large company-from the same criminal neglect (that of not being admitted far enough within the walls) which led to the more awful catastrophe at Kirkaldy of which hereafter.

This stool-or bench for two, with an upright back-having the word "repentance" painted in white capital letters upon it, had once been in the parish church of St. Andrews, for the doing of penance by those who had sinned more especially against the seventh or tenth commandment. It is a great curiosity of its kind; but was wisely given up, after dinner, for a mahogany chair "bound in purple morocco."

feline genus. It was a true SESSA.* Its portrait upon wood should be in every book of its master. Our supper was in the same style of elegance and abundance as our dinner.

The Scotch entertain "right lovingly." Deep potations have wisely taken their departure. With my friend W. B. D. D. Turnbull, Esq. (I have never yet had the courage to request a catalogue raisonné of his christian names) I once partook of a symposium, in an hotel somewhere in the neighbourhood of St. Andrew's Square, which had every characteristic of a " Clarendon Hotel," or an "Albion," entertainment. Nor were the wines less varied and delicious than the company and conversation were select and instructive. There is about my friend an ebulliency of generous feeling, which knows no limits in the participation of a social banquet. His eye is upon every guest; and as he looks, his hand instinctively grasps his glass. When the heart is set dancing, it is difficult for the extremities to be quiet. I do not think that there is a wine celebrated by Redi, in his "Bacco in Toscano," but what was found to sparkle upon the table at this pleasant symposium. My friend, knowing my utter abhorrence of whiskey, essayed to tempt and comfort me by the alternate seductions of Dantzic and Schedam. After dinner, we had some few stand-up speeches—a

* See the magnificent Cat, seated erect upon her haunches, with a mouse in her mouth, which adorns the 236th page of the second volume of the Bibliographical Decameron: the last genuine breed of the family of the SESSE...printers of great eminence at Venice, in the middle of the sixteenth century.

startling thing for the diffidence of a Southern ; but none came up to the impassioned eloquence which seemed to flow spontaneously from the lips of Mr. David Laing, when he toasted "the immortal memories of Chapman and Miller, the first printers of Scotland." I thought the ceiling must have droptfrom the intensity and long continuance of the "hurrah" which immediately ensued. As in duty bound, I rose to propose "prosperity to the ABBOTSFORD CLUB,"* of which our host was the founder

* In July 1836, the ABBOTSFORD CLUB was established, and so called in honour of the late Sir Walter Scott, Bart. It is limited to fifty members. Its object is "the printing of Miscellaneous Pieces, illustrative of History, Literature, and Antiquities." At a general meeting, in the same month, the Secretary exhibited the works already printed by the Club. I. Ancient Mysteries, from the Digby MSS., preserved in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Edited by Mr. Sharp, of Coventry, and printed at the expense of the Club. One volume. II. The Presentation in the Temple, as originally performed by the Corporation of Weavers at Coventry, printed from the books of the Company, and edited by Mr. Sharp, of that city. Presented by J. B. Gracie, Esq. One volume. III. A Volume of Ancient Household Books, of the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, entitled, Compota Domestica Familiarum de Bukynhame et d'Angouleme, &c, from the originals in the possession of the Secretary. Presented by William B. D. D. Turnbull, Esq. Secretary. IV. The Romance of Rouland and Vernagu, and Otuel, (before so particularly described) presented by Alexander Nicholson, Esq. Six more works were announced, at the same meeting, to be "in hand."

"We are doing wonders (says my friend, the founder and secretary, in his last letter to me) in the North, by private typography. In another year or two, Martin's book will be nearly as incomplete a reference as Clarke's Bibliographical Dictionary." For the benefit of Southern aspirants, ambitious of becoming inmates in this temple of rising fame, I subjoin the terms of admission into the

and secretary. The "return thanks" was in Mr. Turnbull's most felicitous style. In fact, it was a Rorburghe Earousal—from beginning to end. Mr. Maidment was in evident extacies. Of this, however, let the reader be fully assured-there was not one guest, who, on parting, could not read the most diminutive colophon.... whether it were in writing or in print. Even the muddy aspect of Eggestein's smallest gothic fount, or the rickety characters of Ketelaer and De Lempt,* would have been mastered as soon as seen. Friendship has few stronger cords to keep hearts and hands together than such as are manufactured on these joyous and innocent occasions.

"Another and another still succeeds." If the reader will have the goodness to turn to the note at page 515 ante, he will find a sort of mysterious allusion to No. 19, Scotland Street in the metropolis in which we are now tarrying. "The prospect clears -and Whitefoord* stands confessed." In other

same. "1. The annual payment of each Member shall be Three Guineas, and shall be made to the Treasurer on the first Monday of February; and the Books printed by or for the Club shall not be issued by the Secretary to any Member until his Subscription be paid. 2. Each Member shall, within ten days after his election, make payment to the Treasurer of the sum of Five Guineas, over and above the current year's subscription. 3. Any Member whose Subscription shall have remained unpaid for twelve months, shall be struck off the List of Members at the Annual General Meeting in February."

* The first was an early printer of Strasbourgh; the two latter were earlier printers in the Low Countries. The only book of any note, or extreme rarity, from the press of Eggestein, which I have never seen, is his Bucolics of Virgil.

+ I place my friend's second christian's name in the van, on ac

words, here lives John Whitefoord Mackenzie, Esq. -alert of foot; sharp of vision; generous of heart; joyous of disposition: a kind husband; a loving parent. His hospitality is as broad as are his largepaper margins. He is, to the very bone and muscle, a thorough-bred Bannatyner. His library is a sort of Book Nest-everything being so cunningly wrought and so curiously dovetailed. It is unambitious, but it has an air of attic elegance. He placed several varieties in my hand,* of which I

count of the intractability of the surname. The three names are these: JOHN WHITEFOORD MACKENZIE. I have called him precisely what his own conscience is every day calling him—a thoroughbred Bannatyner. His contribution, in the shape of a dramatic piece, called Philotus, (“ Ane verie excellent and delectabill Treatise intitulit PHILOTUS, qvhairin we may persave the greit inconveniences that fallis out in the Mariage betwene age and zouth," Edinb. 1603, 4to.) is the very perfection of a reprint-in textual accuracy and typographical aspect. Bob Charteris, the printer of the parent text, would disbelieve his own eyes, when told it came from another quarter. The preface, by the anonymous editor of the reprint, is admirable on the score of taste and learning. I ought to add that there are "Various Readings," from the idiom of 1612, and an Appendix entitled Of Phylotus and Emelia.

* Among these "rarities," I felt no greater interest than in a couple of volumes entitled, " A Collection of Confessions of Faith, Catechisms, Directores, Books of Discipline, &c. of public authority in the Church of Scotland, &c.; with a Large Preface, containing a full Account of the several Ends and Uses of Confessions of Faith, the just Foundations of their Authority as a public standard of Orthodoxy, and a Vindication of the Equity, Usefulness, and Excellency of such Composures." Printed by James Watson, his Majesty's printer; Edinb. 1719, 8vo. : a beautiful copy in old morocco binding. The second volume-in which are "All the Acts of Assembly, which are Standing Rules concerning the Doc