f them studded with precious stones, and decorated with
enamelled portraits. Dr. C. of G----, has been represented
to be the most successful rival of Frederick, in this "line
of collection," as it is called; some of his boxes are of
uncommon curiosity. It may gratify a Bibliographer to find
that there are other MANIAS besides that of the book; and
that even physicians are not exempt from these diseases.

Of _Old China_, _Coins_, and _Rusty Armour_, the names of
hundreds present themselves in these departments; but to the
more commonly-known ones of Rawle and Grose, let me add that
of the late Mr. John White, of Newgate-Street; a catalogue
of whose curiosities [including some very uncommon books]
was published in the year 1788, in three parts, 8vo. Dr.
Burney tells us that Mr. White "was in possession of a
valuable collection of ancient rarities, as well as natural
productions, of the most curious and extraordinary kind; no
one of which however was more remarkable than the obliging
manner in which he allowed them to be viewed and examined by
his friends."--_History of Music_, vol. II. 539, note.]

[Footnote 7: The reader will find an animated eulogy on this
great nobleman in Walpole's _Anecdotes of Painters_, vol.
iv. 227: part of which was transcribed by Joseph Warton for
his Variorum edition of Pope's Works, and thence copied into
the recent edition of the same by the Rev. W.L. Bowles. But
PEMBROKE deserved a more particular notice. Exclusively of
his fine statues, and architectural decorations, the Earl
contrived to procure a number of curious and rare books; and
the testimonies of Maittaire [who speaks indeed of him with
a sort of rapture!] and Palmer shew that the productions of
Jenson and Caxton were no strangers to his library. _Annales
Typographici_, vol. I. 13. edit. 1719. _History of
Printing_, p. v. "There is nothing that so surely proves the
pre-eminence of virtue more than the universal admiration of
mankind, and the respect paid it even by persons in opposite
interests; and more than this, it is a sparkling gem which
even time does not destroy: it is hung up in the Temple of
Fame, and respected for ever." _Continuation of Granger_,
vol. I. 37, &c. "He raised, continues Mr. Noble, a
collection of Antiques that were unr