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 Correspondence. 29 1 tion, have tried to avoid similar errors in subsequent work. Your criticism, if occasionally you must forgive me for saying it of a micro- scopic nature, has never approached the " slashing style," but has always been marked by kindliness and absolute fairness. Why, therefore, this hypersensitiveness which I, for one, am surprised to learn exists in the minds of some members of the Library Association ? Surely each one of us must realise that " we are none of us infallible, not even the youngest amongst us" not even the youngest generation. I send you, herewith, a catalogue of a portion of the books in this library, in case you should think fit to alter your determination, and in the full hope and expectation that if you find it faulty in construction, you will not hesitate to " cut it up." In conclusion, let me say that I think the good effected by your criticism has been incalculable. I am, yours faithfully, FRANK PACY. Saint George, Hanover Square, Public Library, Buckingham Palace Road, S.W. July I4/A, 1894. THE CLANDESTINE PRESS OF HOLLAND. DEAR SIR, I was much interested in the article in a recent number of THE LIBRARY (p. 317 and following), about the Gazette de Leyde, in which my family played such an important part, but would you do me the great favour and draw Mr. Robert Harrison's attention to the fact that he is entirely wrong in saying " that the family of Luzac is represented by the widow of Louis Caspar, the brother and fellow labourer of John Luzac. Louis Caspar Luzac (Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Thorbecce Ministry, of 1848) was a nephew of Prof. John (Johan) Luzac, and having been born in the year 1786, he never had (and could not have had) any- thing to do with the Leyden Gazette. He died in the year 1860 or 1861, and his widow survived him about 10 years only, and has been dead, therefore, about 23 years. Prof. John Luzac was my great-grandfather, and I myself, my only brother's widow, and her little infant son, are the only ones left of the name. She and her son are living at the Hague. I am a publisher and oriental bookseller here in London, but am still a Dutchman. The family copy of the set of the journal is in my possession, and another, not quite so complete a set, too. I also have got the important corres- pondence between my great grandfather and John Adams, Washington, Pinckney, W. V. Murray, and other well known Americans. I shall be very glad if Mr. Harrison would kindly correct, in the next issue of your periodical, that the widow of Louis Caspar, who died so many years ago, is the representative of our family. If Mr. Robert Harrison wants to have any more particulars or likes to see me personally, I shall be very pleased to give him as much infor- mation as I possibly can. I am, yours faithfully, C. G. LUZAC. 46, Great Russell Street, W.C. April 1 2th, 1894.