It is not, in general, our intention to notice topical matters; but the remarkable transaction whereby the York Minster Library has been deprived of several of its choicest treasures, including five Caxtons, two of which were unique, deserves mention and comment.

Editorial notes.

Most libraries contain books a hundred or more years old, bound, as books should be, in some form or other of animal skin; and of these it may in general be said, that, even when the literature has not lost its brilliance, the bindings have.

The care of books.