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 22 3 REVIEWS. Bib Hot he c a Pepysiana. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Library of Samuel Pepys. Part I. ' Sea ' Manu- scripts. By J. R. Tanner, Litt.D. Part II. General Introduction (F. Sidgwick) and Early Printed Books to 1558. By E. Gordon Duff. London: Sidgwick & 'Jackson, Ltd. 1914. js. 6d. net each part. AMUEL PEPYS is at once one of the earliest and one of the best ex- amples of an English collector, as dis- tinguished on the one hand from the student or miscellaneous book-buyer, and on the other from the conscious founders of libraries. Pepys diredled that his collection should be called 'Bibliotheca Pepysiana,' but his directions that no additions should be made to it except by his nephew, and that even these should be kept apart, clearly mark it out as a collection and not a library. For a library needs perpetually to be kept up-to-date, whereas a skilfully formed collection is complete in itself, and instead of becoming obsolete, like a library, becomes continually more valuable. This is certainly the case with the Pepys books, some 3,000 all told, which are an admirable monu- ment to his judgment. The two seditions of the long projected Catalogue which Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson are now publishing embrace respec-