ly followed. Any attempt to classify them as a whole, is apt to
resemble Whately's illustration of illogical division--"_e.g._, if you
were to divide 'book' into 'poetical, historical, folio, quarto, French,
Latin,'" &c. One of the systems of arrangement is topographical, as the
Chetham, "for the purpose of publishing biographical and historical
books connected with the counties palatine of Lancaster and
Chester."[76] The Surtees, again, named after our friend the
ballad-monger, affects "those parts of England and Scotland included in
the east between the Humber and the Firth of Forth, and in the west
between the Mersey and the Clyde--a region which constituted the ancient
kingdom of Northumberland." The Maitland, with its headquarters in
Glasgow, gives a preference to the west of Scotland, but has not been
exclusive. The Spalding Club, established in Aberdeen, the granite
capital of the far north, is the luminary of its own district, and has
produced fully as much valuable historical matter as any other club in
Britain. Then there is the Irish Archaeological--perhaps the most learned
of all--with its casual assistants, the Ossianic, the Celtic, and the
Iona. The AElfric may be counted their ethnical rival, as dealing with
the productions of the Anglo-Saxon enemies of the Celt. The Camden
professes, as we have seen, to be general to the British Empire. The
name of the club called "The Oriental Translation Fund," tells its own
story.

[Footnote 76: Among other volumes of interest, the Chetham has issued a
very valuable and amusing collection of documents about the siege of
Preston, and other incidents of the insurrection of 1715 in Lancashire.]

There are others, too, with no topographical connection, which express
pretty well their purpose in their names--as the Shakespeare, for the
old drama--the Percy, for old ballads and lyrical pieces. The Hakluyt
has a delightful field--old voyages and travels. The Rae Society sticks
to zoology and botany; and the Wernerian, the Cavendish, and the
Sydenham, take the other departments in science, which the names given
to them readily indicate.

In divinity and ecclesiastical history we have the Parker Society, named
after the archbishop. Its tendencies are "Low," or, at all events,
"Broad;" and as it counted some seven thousand members, it could not be
allowed the run of the public mind without an antidote being accessible.
Hence "The Library of Anglo-Catholic Theology," the tende