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Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford, Conn.: The Arabic Collection includes the Miiller Semitic Library of about 1,100 Arabic books and several hundred pamphlets besides 200 other volumes added and 150 Arabic manuscripts. There are many editions of the Koran, great strength in native lexicography and grammar, Tbn Challikan's " Biographical Dictionary," and other rarities. The Collection of Bibles is wealthy in Hebrew and Greek printed texts; in polyglots it has the Complutensian, Antwerp, Heidelberg, Paris, and London; in Hebrew Bibles it has a Bomberg ed., Felix Pratensis (Venice, 1517-18), a Munster's Hebrew-Latin (2 vols., Basel, 1546), four Plantin Bibles (three editions of 1566; and Hebrew-Latin, 1571), a Hutter (Hamburg, 1596), a Buxtorf Rabbinic Bible (16181619), Athias edition (1661) and Leusden edition (1667), a Jablonski (Berlin, 1699), Van der Hooght's (2 vols., 1705), Opitz's (Kiel, 1709), the Mantuan (1742-44), Fosters Oxford quarto (1750), and the leading critical texts of the last fifty years. Of Greek New Testaments it has an Erasmus (of Basel, 1516) and a third edition (1522), two of Robert Stephens (1546, 1550), Beza's of 1565, 1589, 1598, Elzevirs of 1624 and 1633, and Bengel's first edition (1734). The Paine Hymnological Collection, as made by Silas H. Paine, contained over 5,000 titles (to which constant additions are being made in all branches of hymnology), besides first-hand information, including manuscript correspondence, gathered by the collector. The annotations of the hymnologists David Creamer and Daniel Sedgwick in the collection at Drew (see above) are transcribed. The principal modern works on hymnology are included, while of rarities mention may be made of Timotheus Gateensis, In, Hymnos ecclesiasticos brevis elucidatio (Venice, 1582), Pseaumes de David (Paris, 1562), several editions of Marot's Pseaumes de David (e.g., 1668, 1680); and Latin hymnals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. There is a large number of English and American hymnbooks, including a Sternhold and Hopkins of 1584, an Ainsworth Book of Psalmes or Hymnes (Amsterdam, 1611), a copy of Knox's Liturgy (1615), G(eo.) S(andys), A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David (London, 1636), and many rare first editions. A collection of Lutherans includes a very complete set of editions of Luther's works, among them the standard editions and first and other rare editions of fugitive writings, and the collection is probably not exceeded in value by any other in America. The collection on Missions is of prime importance because of its wide range and the wealth of auxiliary collections on ethnology, comparative religion, and travel.

McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill.: The Collection on Patristics is worthy of mention because of its completeness, including the Migne Petrology and Mansi's Concilia. The Warrington Collection of Hymnology consists of about 450 volumes, chiefly modern.

Lutheran Theological Seminary, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa.: The archives of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania are located here, and contain the reo-

ords since the founding of the miniaterium in 1748, besides correspondence and journals of leaders of Lutheranism and transcripts of documents in the archives at Halle. Though not in a special collection, the works on the early history of Lutheranism in America are worthy of mention. Lutherans are specially represented by many first editions of Luther's sermons, the program of the Leipsic disputation, controversial tracts, Eck's " Four Hundred and Four Theses" (1530), the first English edition of the " Harmony of the Confessions " (1586), a first edition of the " Book of Concord " (Dresden, 1580). The Bible collection is strong in German and English editions, including the London Polyglot. Of Latin Bibles there is a Nuremberg (1483), Basel (1491), and four volumes of the 6-vol. edition, 1498-1502. Of English Bibles there are two (mutilated) Matthews (1549; 1551), Geneva (1st ed., 1560); also later editions, Cranmer's (1562 and later), Bishop's (1572). Luther's version is in several editions (a 1st ed. of the Pentateuch, 1523); and of the second part of the Old Testament (1524); Dietenberger's Roman Catholic version (1534 and 1567), and Bibel Teutsch (Augsburg, 1518). Erasmus is represented (editions of 1519, 1522, 1527), also Beza (1st ed., 1565). There are fascimiles of the principal codices, and of Wye lif's and Coverdale's Bibles and Tyndal's New Testament. Catechisms are represented by about 200 volumes, besides a very complete set of American editions of Luther's catechisms. The liturgical collection is made up of several collections brought together, and is particularly rich in materials on the Lutheran liturgy, German church orders and agenda. There are about 1,000 volumes, which include Durand's. Rationale divinorum offcaorum (1493), Manuale parochialism sacerdotum (1494), Ordo rerum sacrarum agendarum in orthodoxy Christi ecclesica (1553), Casalius' De veteribus sacris Christianorum ritibus (164?), and works in this department by Duranti, Martene, Renaudot, Burius, Muratori, Cavalieri, and Zaccaria. Breviaries are well represented, missals (Nuremberg, 1484; Bamberg, 1499), facsimiles, and more modern works. German liturgies give the distinctive character to this collection, among them a manuscript (illuminated) of the fifteenth century, Luther's first liturgical work, Ordnung des Gottesdienst in der Gemeinde (1523), Bugenhagen's Mass (1524), Osiander's Tauf ordnung (1524), and Spangenberg's Cantiones ecclesiastictv (1545). The development of the American Lutheran service is traceable from the material here. In this department musical settings have received attention.

Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N. J.: The Library of the Society of Inquiry is the nucleus (1,092 volumes, 1,200 pamphlets) of a selection of works on missions. In the general library there are collections on Semitics, patristics, and also facsimiles of the leading codices of the Bible. The Sprague Collection of Pamphlets consists of about 20,000 pamphlets collected by William B. Sprague (q.v.) for his Annals of the American Pulpit, bound in 1,093 volumes, with additions. Sermons on election and fast days in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont before the governor and general