at you were in a moment convinced his
books were not purchased for the mere sake of gorgeous furniture. So
entirely were his classical feelings mixed up with his Library, that
he prefixed, over the entrance door of his oblong cabinet, in printed
letters of gold, the following lines--of which the version is supplied
from the "_Arundines Cami_," edited by his eldest son, the Rev. Henry
Drury.

IN MUSEI MEI ADITU.

Pontificum videas penetralibus eruta lapsis
Antiquas Monachum vellera passa manus,
Et veteres puncto sine divisore Papyros,
Quaeque fremit monstris litera picta suis:
Aetatis decimae spectes Industria Quintae:
Quam pulcra Archetypos imprimat arte Duces
ALDINAS aedes ineuns et limina JUNTAE
Quosque suos Stephanus vellet habere Lares.

H.I.T.D.

OVER THE THRESHOLD OF MY LIBRARY.

From mouldering Abbey's dark Scriptorium brought,
See vellum tomes by Monkish labour wrought;
Nor yet the comma born, Papyri see,
And uncial letters wizard grammary;
View my _fifteeners_ in their rugged line;
What ink! what linen! only known long syne--
Entering where ALDUS might have fixed his throne,
Or Harry Stephens covetted his own.

H.D.

They were part and parcel of the _Owner_ himself. His mind was
traceable in many a fly leaf. His latinity was perspicuity and
accuracy itself. He was, in all respects, a ripe and a good scholar;
and the late Provost of Eton (The Rev. Dr. Goodall) told me, on an
occasion which has been, perhaps, too _emphasised_ in certain
bibliographical pages,[476] that "England could not then produce a
better Greek metrical scholar than his friend Henry Drury." What was
remarkable, he never assumed an _ex Cathedra_ position in society. In
bringing forward or pressing quotations, whatever fell from him, came
easily and naturally, but rarely. Accustomed for many years to be the
favourite of the _Harrovians_, he never affected the airs of the
pedagogue. How he _could_ criticise, sufficiently appears in an
article on the _Musae Edinburgenses_ in an early number of the
Quarterly Review.

[Footnote 476: _Bibliographical Decameron._ Dr. Goodall
always appeared to me to _affect_ irascibility upon the
subject alluded to. The contents might have been published
at Charing Cross.]

Yet this may be considered secondary matter; and I hasten to record
the qualities of his heart and di