At the same time, Mr Repp has no fear to confess, and accordingly does so frankly, that his notions respect- ing the management of public libraries are continental, more than British, and he does not by any means alfect to deny, that on the Continent, a certain limited share of mechanical work is considered compatible with the superior, and even the principal offices in great public libraries. In the Bibliotheque du Roi of Paris this, no doubt, is not the case. In that institution, probably the best managed, as well as the largest of the sort in the world, mechanical business is separate and distinct from lite- rary avocations, even of an inferior description. But in accepting of the engagement, which induced him to leave his native country, Mr Repp anticipated that share of mechanical labour, for which intellect and knowledge more than muscular exertion might be required, and by no means objected to it, as long as the demands of this kind were restricted within reasonable limits ; that is to say, as long as no more mechanical labour should be ex- pected of Mr Repp than of any other man of letters con- nected with the library. On the other hand, Mr Repp was certainly far from suspecting that he ever would be called upon to exert himself in a labouring capacity to a degree utterly inconsistent with a literary character— nay, to nearly as great a degree as some of the porters in the library. Not only equity to Mr Repp, but the dignity of the Faculty of Advocates, utterly precluded every suspicion of such a demand being possible. For what purpose could Mr Repp be brought from Denmark to assist the principal librarian, unless with a view to his superior attainments in at least some branches of know- ledge, with which branches circumstances prevented the head librarian from being so thoroughly conversant. The peculiar view of Mr Repp’s engagement, appa- rently entertained by one or two gentlemen,—that be it originally what it might, mechanical or literary, the Curators were at liberty to convert it into whatever they pleased,—does not surely deserve any notice, and is not likely to be one which the Faculty ever will adopt. Mr Repp may also here mention, that he looks upon the nature of his engagement, in so far as he is concerned, to be regulated mainly by the correspondence which took place, and not at all by the minute of Curators, no

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