kory wood;

and the lines--

Whales in the sea
God's voice obey;

now modified without loss of its poetic fire--

By Washington,
Great deeds were done--

led captivity captive, and had an unlimited circulation, for the better
diffusion of knowledge and patriotism throughout the land. As our city
grew apace, and both instructors and their functions enlarged, he engaged
in the Latin classics. Having a little Latin about me, it became my duty
to set up at the printing office of Lewis Nicholls, Duyckinck's reprint of
_De Bello Gallico_. The edition was edited by a Mr. Rudd. He was the first
editor I ever saw; I looked on him with school-boy admiration when I took
him the proofs. What alterations or improvements he made in the text of
Oudendorp, I never ascertained. This, however, must have been among the
beginnings of that American practice, still prevailing among us, of having
in reprints of even the most important works from abroad, for better
circulation, the name of some one as editor, inserted on the title-page.
Mr. Duyckinck was gifted with great business talents, and estimated as a
man of punctuality and of rigid integrity in fiscal matters. He was the
first who had the entire Bible, in duodecimo, preserved--set up in
forms--the better to supply, at all times, his patrons. This was before
stereotype plates were adopted. He gave to the Harpers the first job of
printing they executed--whether Tom Thumb or Wesley's Primitive Physic, I
do not know. The acorn has become the pride of the forest--the Cliff-street
tree, whose roots and branches now ramify all the land. Duyckinck
faithfully carried out the proverbs of Franklin, and the sayings of Noah
Webster's _Prompter_. He was by birth and action a genuine Knickerbocker.

There was, about forty years ago, an individual somewhat remarkable in
several respects, whose bookstore was in Maiden Lane--William Barlas. He
was by birth a Scotchman, and was brought up to the ministry; but from
causes which I never learned, he relinquished that vocation in his native
land, and assumed that of a bookseller in this city. He was reputed to be
a ripe scholar. He dealt almost exclusively in the classics, and for
numerous years imported the editions--_in usum Delphini_, for the students
in our schools and colleges. Hardly a graduate among us, of the olden
time, can have forgotten him--Irving, Verplanck, John Anthon, and Paulding,
can doubtless tell much of him. When, on a lar