says, "It will be noticed how strongly Ralph Waldo Emerson has influenced my entire conception of the matters treated."
Page 191, note 1. The following sentence seems to have been in this lecture as first delivered: "And Plutarch: if the world's library were burning, I should fly to save that, with our Bible and Shakspeare and Plato."
Page 192, note 1. When in Mr. Emerson's later years a book-agent was impertinently recommending to him some new work, he was moved to say, "Young man, it is not for you to tell me what to read. I read for other people." He wrote in his journal, "In college days Warren Burton used to come to my room, and said he did not like to read and did not remember what he read, but what I read or quoted to him he remembered, and never forgot."
Page 192, note 2. Johann Albert Fabricius, the German scholar (1668-1736), author of the Bibliotheca Latina, Graeca, and Ecclesiastica, and Bibliographia Antiquaria. John Selden (1584-1654), called "the great dictator of learning of the English nation," though the author of many learned books, is best known by his Table-Talk. Giovanni Pico, Count of Mirandola (1463-1494), an Italian of very extraordinary acquirements in languages and philosophy. Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), son of a remarkable scholar, though Italian by birth, was educated in France. He became professor of Belles-lettres at Leyden, and surpassed his father in erudition. Antonio Magliabechi (1633-1714), a Florentine who, though a goldsmith's apprentice, became so eager a scholar that he was appointed by Cosmo III. his librarian. In this capacity he brought to notice many valuable but neglected manuscripts, and he bequeathed to Florence the important library which he had collected. Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), a French scholar remarkable for his courage and liberality,
