bukes borrowit be his brother Mr. Jhone." The latter, John Wood of Tilliedavy, had been secretary to the Regent Murray, and the eighteen volumes thus recovered formed part of a very much larger number which were handed over to him on November 15th, 1569, as appears from the list attested by his signature printed in "Inventaires de la Royne Descosse" (Bannatyne Club, 1863), pp. 179-83. Among them are "le premier vol. de Froissard, fol., beau," Lucian, Herodotus, Athenæus, Ptolemy, Chrysostom, "Mercurii Trismegisti Poemander," the "Hist. de Godefroy de Bouillon," and "Chronique de Sauoye."

Without dwelling on any intervening matter, I must now pass on to the general "Index Librorum Regis," which occupies ff. 15-18. This catalogue comprises some two hundred articles, and not only gives the title, but in nearly all cases states whether the book was bought, presented (and if so, by whom), or came from the library of Queen Mary, with a further note if it was subsequently given away by the king. At the head stand eight Bibles, six of which were presented, including "Biblia Lat. Tiguri excusa, fol.," by Alex. Syme; "Bibl. Gallica Magna Lugduni exc., fol.," by the Earl of Argyll (both in 1574); and "Bibl. Britannica Magna, fol.," by "Quæstor" Richesone. Of five New Testaments only one is in English. This was a donation from Capt. Cocburn, whose name frequently recurs, and was handed on by the king to Lord Aubigny. Another, also noted as given away, is entitled "Nouueau Test. auec les pseaumes en escossois 16o." The Psalms supply ten entries, the first being "Psalmi Lat. carmine a Dom. Buchanano expressi, 16o," while among the others are found "Psalmes in English, 32°, donnez par la nourrice," and "Psalter in metre and prose, 16°," a gift from the Abbot of Glenluce and "donné par sa majesté à Elizabeth Gib." On February 4th, 1577-8, Elizabeth Gib became Peter Young's wife; and it may be inferred, therefore, that the catalogue was drawn up not later than 1577, and consequently before James was twelve years old. This is the more probable as it does not contain any of the Queen Mary's books which were delivered by the Regent Morton to the king on March 26th, 1578, as comprised in an inventory printed in the Bannatyne Club volume already mentioned, p. cxliii. Among donors the Bishop of Caithness is conspicuous, and, classics excepted, his gifts are a fair sample of the rest. Besides two Psalters, he is credited with "The Dial of Princes. L'Institution du Prince de Budé. L'Institution de Mr. Calvin en francoys. Apophthegmata Erasmi. Erotemata dialectica Melanchthon. Emblemata Alciati. Prieres et oraisons Chrestiennes. The perfecte

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pathwaye to salvacion. Heures de recreation de Guicciardini." The Chancellor Lord Glamis was another who concerned himself with the young king's education, giving him Seneca, Paulus Jovius, a Latin-French dictionary, Guicciardini's History, and "Foxi Morzilli de regni regisque Institutione." Elsewhere (f. 14) it appears that he tried to interest him in military science, tempting him with "L'art militaire de Rocque" and the same author's "Les Ruzes de la guerre." More to James's taste, no doubt, were two volumes given him by Argyll, viz., "La Venerie de Jaq. du Fouilloux" and "La Fauconnerie de pluseurs autheurs." Argyll appealed to another side of his character, though it could hardly have declared itself so early, with "A Defense of the Apologie be Mr. Jwell" and "A confutation be Alex' Nowel," which were his new year's gifts in 1576-7 (f. 13). Buchanan's choice of books is best seen, perhaps, in the purchases, which I have no room here to discuss. As presents his pupil had from him "Institution of a prince par Synesius en francoys. La sphere du monde de Piccolhuomini. La nature des poissons par Belon. Seneca Tragoedia." Out of the many lady donors I must name only two. To Lady Mar, wife of his guardian, James was indebted for "Annales de France, avec Philippe de Commines," and to Lady Lennox, his grandmother, for "Jo. Ferrarius of the orderying of a commounveale. Histoire de nostre temps. Propos Memorables. Riccius de imitatione. The history of Justinus in English," and several more. From his mother he had no books directly by way of gift, nor does Queen Elizabeth's name anywhere occur. Her ambassador, however, the accomplished Henry Killigrew, appropriately gave "The Courtiour, in English" (the original, Castiglione's "Cortegiano," was presented by Glamis), together with Thevet's "Singularitéz de la France Antartiques"; and among other English books it is satisfactory to observe Roger Ascham's "Toxophilus" and "Scholemaistre" and Sir T. Elyot's "Governour." As for books printed in Scotland, there are probably not half a dozen altogether.

But even with James it was not all work and no play. On f. 18 b are entries of other gifts than books. Even these, indeed, include such aids to learning as "ane pen and ink-horne of syluer" and "ane fueillee of syluer to vret apon"; but among them are also enumerated three "boawis" and five dozen "arrowis," with other archery gear, and more noteworthy still, "2 golf cloubbis," which last were the gift of the Laird of Rossyth. Finally, two precious, as it seems, to be described by any hand but the boy's own, we read of "A tre with brenches and leiues of wyre cled with silk of all hewes, beiring clowis and nutmewgis."

Though I have already exceeded reasonable limits, a few words must be added about the scribblings, often scarcely decipherable, on the covers and fly-leaves. Many are mere commonplaces, classical quotations and such like, but others are what Young calls "Apophthegmata Regis," consisting of remarks made by James in the course of his studies, and jotted down by his tutor as worthy of record. To say the truth, they are not very brilliant, but I give two or three specimens. "They gar me speik Latin or I could speik Scottis" was a complaint which, on the evidence of this book alone, was not unwarranted. There is some spirit, too, in the following: "Cuidam dicenti ze suld neuer be angrie.' 'Than,' sayis he, I suld not waire y lyoun in my armes, bot rather a scheip."" If he really translated ἀφ ̓ οὗ as "all fou," he must have been poking fun at his pedagogues!

GEORGE F. WARNER.