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the time of opening and closing . The Gallery of Antiquities to be opened on every day , throughout the year , except on Sundays , &c for the admission of artists and others at a very early hour in the morning , varying according to the season of the year . " 2 . A School of Design to he established for the encouragement of Arts and Manufactures .
" 3 . The Reading Room to be opened every day , except on Sundays , &c . from nine o ' clock a . m . till half an hour before sunset . " 4 . A distinct fire-proof Reading Room to be erected for evening readers , to be open from six to eleven p . m . "—p . 19 . We particularly observe here , as worthy of praise , the proposal to open the Museum on Sundays , and the reading-room in the evenings .
But there is one point of considerable importance which should never be omitted in any remarks connected with the reform of the British Museum ;—we mean that of obtaining increased facility both as to finding in the catalogues the books you want , and in obtaining- them from the under librarians and attendants . The latter difficulty will probably disappear with the former , and the best method consists chiefly in giving" the
public classed catalogues instead of tne old and voluminous alphabetical form in which they now stand . But although a London bookseller of character has offered to print and publish classed catalogues at his own expense , new and almost interminable alphabetical catalogues are preparing by the Museum authorities , which will be an immense expense to the nation , and , as usual , of very little use !
An Essay on the Spirit and Influence of the Reformation of Luther . By Charles Villiers , Esq . Translated by James Mill , Esq ., and abridged by the Rev , W , Marsh , M . A . London . 1836 . This essay , we are told , obtained the prize from the National Institute of France in the year 1802 . It was written on the
question— " What has been the influence of the Reformation of Luther on the political situation of the different states of Europe , and on the progress of knowledge ? " To concentrate so vast a field of thought and enquiry into the compass of a prize essay was sufficiently difficult , and here we have an " abridgment" of the original work . The result is what might be expected ; there
is not sufficient room for amplification and illustration , and the attention frequently becomes wearied in following a bare detail of facts , which the memory vainly strives to retain . Notwithstanding this fault , the philosophical spirit in which the whole is conceived renders it valuable , particularly as matter of suggestion . Passages too , of considerable power and eloquence ., are scattered throughout , and serve to enliven the monotony of the historical
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Critical Notices . 577
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 577, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/53/
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