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court, before the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company (1701-1829), before other bodies, ordination sermons, funeral addresses and sermons, and many other varieties of pulpit discourse are here. Controversial tracts are abundant, such as those on the Trinitarian-Unitarian controversy, on baptism, episcopacy, Quakerism, Roman Catholicism, the Calvinistic-Armenian controversy, and the like. Local church disputes are also registered by entries, and the anti-slavery movement. The collection of contemporaneous pamphlets on the Synod of Dort contains over 500 pamphlets, and furnishes perhaps the best collection of sources in America. The Hinschius Collection on Kirchenrecht (" Church law ") consists of over 2,000 numbers. The Agnew Collection on the Baptist Controversy consists now of over 2,000 volumes and 3,000 pamphlets, and the range of selection is very wide. The collection of Puritan literature comprises about 2,000 volumes of English and American Puritan writings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, theological, controversial, biographical, and exegetical, very many of the numbers being rare if not unique in this country.

Protestant Episcopal Divinity School, Philadelphia, Pa.: The liturgical collection comprises over 500 volumes for the most part on Anglican and Protestant Episcopal usage, but includes such works of wider scope as those of Goar, Renaudot, Martin Gerbert, and Bartolomeo Gavanto, as well as the Missale Romanum. It contains the publications of the Henry Bradshaw Society and the Surtees Society, editions of the Book of Common Prayer, and pamphlets on the revision of the American Book of Common Prayer.

Rochester Theological Seminary, Rochester, N. Y.: The general library contains the library of Neander, the church historian, including the manuscript of his " Church History." The Baptist history collection is perhaps the richest in America on the Anabaptists, and on the English and continental Baptists since the early sixteenth century it has very many works.

Union Theological Seminary, New York, N. Y.: This institution has a wealth of collections in many departments, among which may be named in general 430 incunabula, 37 valuable manuscripts, 1,246 titles of Reformation literature in original editions, over 4,200 volumes in church history, patriaties, and canon law, the comprehensive Samuel Macauley Jackson collection on zwingli and the Reformation at Zurich, a selection on the dogma of the immaculate conception, and a large number of editions of Greek New Testaments. The Gillett Collection of American Theology and History abounds in general and local history, ecclesiastical and secular, and in biography. The Field Collection consists of a large number of pamphlets on early American religious history. The McAlpine Collection of British Theology and History is rich in material from the seventeenth century, its materials being surpassed in this department only by the Bodleian and British Museum; there are rare volumes from the Roman Catholic controversies of the Reformation period, on the early Baptists, Brownists, Independents, and obscure sects; es-

pecially valuable is that part which contains the religious and controversial works of the Puritan and Westminster divines and those which deal with the deistic and ecclesiastical controversies of the eighteenth century. The Hymnological Collection has for its nucleus the library of the late Frederic Mayer Bird (q.v.) and now numbers over 5,000 volumes, accessible through a card catalogue. It embraces foreign worship collections, in which are found the Herrnhut Gesangbuch of 1741, the French Psalm books of Marot and Beza (Geneva, 1607); Greek paraphrases of the Psalms; a line of Latin hymnals among which may be noted the Poemata sacra of L. Torrentius (1594), the Enchiridion scholasticorum of F. Le Tort (1586), Lyricorum libri (1645), Jacob Balde's Sylvce lyrictc (1646) as well as George Buchanan's Poemata gate extant (1687) and Psalmorum Davidis paraphrases Poeteca (1725). The department of English worship collections is classified according to denominations, and has many early specimens, some of them exceedingly rare. The minor denominations are well represented. Of very high value is that part which contains the Psalm versions, in which are a first and several later editions of the Bay Psalm Book (q.v.), a copy of the editio princeps of Tote and Brady (1696), and many other rarities. General treatises are well represented, of anthem books an unusually rich assemblage, nearly one hundred by Lowell Mason, and about sixty by Thomas Hastings. Sources are also richly present, noticeable among which is a first edition of Toplady's Poems on, Sacred Subjects (1759).

Wesley Hall, Nashville, Term.: This institution has a collection of Methodist disciplines, from the first (1784) up to the present.

Western Theological Seminary, Chicago, Ill.: The Hibbard Egyptian Library comprises about 1,500 volumes, to which additions are constantly made, on Egyptology, comparative religion, archeology of the Bible and the orient.

Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Conn.: The Lowell Mason Library of Church Music is a collection of about 8,000 titles in about 4,000 volumes gathered by Lowell Mason, unusually complete in early publications in America, and presenting the development of American musical taste up to the time of Dr. Mason's death. The Foreign Mission Library approximates 8,000 volumes, the hope being to assemble " the entire foreign missionary literature of the Protestant nations of the world." The nucleus consists of copies of all translations of the Scriptures published or sold by the American Bible Society. It therefore includes: translations of the Bible or parts of it made by missionaries, with dictionaries and grammars in the various languages, with other works prepared by missionaries; histories of missionary organizations and encyclopedias; histories of modern missions, including early Jesuit missions; missionary biographies and autobiographies; files of the reports of many of the Protestant missionary societies, and of the principal American and European missionary periodicals; reports of work among Jews and Mohammedans.