The splendid collection of historical and literary manuscripts formed by the late Oliver Kingsley Brooks, of Cleveland, sold by order of Mrs. Brooks; and the remaining portion of the library of the late George Manierre, of Chicago, sold by order of Mrs. Manierre

comprising autograph letters of manuscripts of Henry VIII, Elizabeth, Charles I, &c., Addison, Pope, Johnson, Garrick, Lamb, Browning, Fitzgerald, Robert Burns, and other famous English writers; presidents of the U.S., complete from Washington to Wilson, Hamilton, Burr, Franklin, Irving; also General Burgoyne's orderly book containing the articles odf surrender at Saratoga. In addition there are rare first editions of Aldrich, Bryant, Clemens, Cooper, Dickens, Hawthorne, Kipling, Longfellow, Lowell, Stevenson, Emerson, and others, and fine original drawings by Thackeray ..., Beardsley, Rowlandson, Thomason, &c