£200,000 LIBRARY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1279, 7 November 1911, Page 4

£200,000 LIBRARY.

e SHAKESPEARE FOLIOS IN THE 11UTH SALE. Ono of the most famous book sales of modem times will begin in London in tho third week ill November, when, the firs-t portion of tho Huth librarv will be di;s]>ersed at Messrs. Sotheby's. In tliu early 'nineties this collection of books was valued at over -£1-0,000. Since then values havo increased enormously, and a later estimate of over 200,000 cannot bo considered extravagant (says tho "Daily Mail"). Somo idc,i of the siz« of tho library can bo. ftalheml from the facl that, tlioufrh the dispersal of this first portion will occupy eipM <lnys, the catalo&iio contains oiil.v (he first two letters of tho alphabet, the 120(1 lots beginning with a unique seventeenth ccntury work, "Tho Scourge of Venus," by If. A., and conclutlinpi with a privately printed work on Lord Bvron. The last of the eight days will ba occupied with the sale of the late Mr. Tluth's rolloction of Shakespeare's works, which includes copies of the first four folios, first and early quartos, and tho I'oems. 'Lite c«i>y of the first folio is perfect; .C3GOO was paid for tho Van Antwerp copy nt the :nme rooms in 100". The plays include first editions ef "Othello," "Much Ado About Nothing," and "The Merchant of Venire.'' There is a fir'-t edition of "Lucirve," one of fivo perfect conies known, and a first edition of the Sonnets.

According to "Good Roads," two important chinißcs in the road laiv ol trauco ttvo to take effect in October. J lie luvt eliminates Iho speed limit iw automobiles in Iho open country, t'ho woond makes the "rule of the im.hl" conform to tli.it of (3ro.it Britain, where vehicles meet .mi the li ft. One "I'-oi </v ■ — •- chnii'v- is that bv it the drivers of slew. "iiiiiß vehicles, who in France usually walli o;i the riirtil-lian.l M>le "f Hieir lioinx-s, will bo I'l-ouprJit D'aw<w..„t|.- • ter and un ovcrtakinit uulomobiie, 11)ua enabling the linv. r .0 ...... ... ami avoid necident. MOTOIt CYCLING. One of the most, important exhibits nt ilie i'almorston sliuw is Messrs. Adams, ]id display of Iho very latest in Triurn nil Motor Cycles Ji.S.A. Motor Cycles, and New Hudson Ihiw-Speod Motor Cvclcs. Visitors,to the show are enrdially invited to inspect the exhibit and >.vo for themselves tho wonderful improvements which have been mado U> Ihcsa world-famous machines.'