WIDENER EXHIBITS RARE BOOKS

In the Memorial Room of the Widener Library there are now on exhibition a large collection of rare editions and manuscripts of Robert Burns and William Wordsworth. The Burns collection includes the only uncut copy in the original Kilmarnock edition of Burns's poems; a second edition of the Kilmarnock set, of which there are only three known copies.

In the collection of Wordsworth are four copies of the "Lyrical Ballads," a first edition; the "Descriptive Sketches" bound by the famous binder Langorski and "Evening Walk"; a manuscript, "The Stone-pine of Monte Mario at Rome"; and a "Prelude," which-belonged to Lock-hart, the biographer of Scott. The prize book of the collection is, however, "An Account of the Books Lent out of the Library at Rydale Mount" in the original sheep, in the autograph of William Wordsworth and of Dorothy Wordsworth. In this account are entered the names of de Quincey, Dr. Arnold, and others, as having borrowed books.