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Rh valuable a contribution to library literature, which otherwise might have been lost to us, we are under no small obligation to the editor of "The Philobiblion, a Monthly Bibliographical Journal," published by George P. Philes & Co., of New York (vol. ii, March, 1863 [number 15]), for a translation of the "Discours" as it appeared in the "Bulletin du Bouquiniste."

This translation was afterwards used, with a slight introduction, under the title "What a Librarian should be" in "The Bibliographer" (vol. iii, December, 1882), "''a Journal of Book Lore," published in London by Elliot Stock, and in New York by J. W. Bouton. We find it again under''