BARNARD ASSOCIATES EXHIBIT TREASURES

The John Barnard Associates exhibit of books owned by students will come to a close at the end of this week. Numerous additions have been made since its opening on April 4 and Mr. G. P. Winship '93, who is in charge of the exhibit stated that the books formed a collection which would be remarkable even among the treasures of a collector.

The books and autographed letters which have been gathered together by a committee of members of the John Barnard Associates are entirely the personal property of students in Harvard College.

There is one case of Dickens Items, a complete set of five famous Christmas books in beautiful condition, the parts of "Our Mutual Friend", of "Dombey and Son", and the parts of "Pickwick Papers" bound. Most interesting is a travelling ink-pot engraved "From J.F. to C.D." with an autographed note by Dickens" sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth certifying that the ink-pot was given to Dickens by his biographer, Mr. Foster. This group of Dickens material was loaned by Chauncey Stillman '29.

William Blake's work is shown in the books of Lincoln Kirstein '30. The portrait of Cowper in Hayley's "Life" of the poet, the illustrations of Young's "Night Thoughts", and the plates in Gays' "Fables", and Hayley's "Balladers", all by Blake, show clearly the art upon which his fame rests.

With the "Boggar's Opera", "The Second Part" and other of John Grays' works W. A. Burden '27, has loaned to the exhibition a splendid group of Gayana. There are copies of "Achilles, an Opera". "The Distressed Wife", and "Two Epistles", as well as a number of Byron's first editions loaned by F.V. Field '27, and which include "Don Juan", "Manfred", and "Maseppa". "The Prisoner of Chillon" and a very interesting Boston edition of "The Giaour", have been added by John Potter '30, and J.S.B. Archer '30, respectively.

There are first editions of Lewis Carroll's "Aliceis Advertures" and "Through the Looking Glass" loaned by A.A. Hounghton '29.

An illuminated Persian manuscript of the Koran, an illuminated edition, of Francis Bacon's "On Garden's", by Sangerski, and the Japanese artist Hokusal's "Instruction for Begginners" form the last part of the collection.

There is also a copy of Madame Christine Lorena's "Galileo" printed in Florence in 1896 which is three fourths of an inch by seven eighths of an inch in size and contains 205 type-set pages.