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Discourse on the Qualities and Duties of a Librarian has already been edited by our colleague, J. Techener, in 1839.

The rarity of this treatise is not the only motive which induces us to publish it again, the charm we felt in reading it makes us believe that we ought to share with others the reading of a masterpiece, almost unknown, or at the best forgotten.

The author of the translation, Mr. Gratet-Duplessis, has given a very happy rendering of the