The Greek Manuscripts in the Old Seraglio at Constantinople

(i) Heron, Pneumatics (works on air pressure).
(j, k, l, m) Anonymous, arithmetical and medical.
(n) Adamantion, Physiognomical works.
(o) Anonymous, Physiognomical works.
(p) Prognostics of weather.
(q) Ammonius on the Astrolabe.
(r) John Philoponus on the Astrolabe.
(s, t) Anonymous, dogmatics Works on religious doctrine..
(u) Anonymous, Tactics.
20. Paper. 16th century. Philoxenus Syrianus on Aristotle's Politics and Metaphysics.
21. Vellum. 12th century. Gospels (a lectionary) in a very fine Byzantine hand. Headings in gold.
22. Paper. Late 15th century. Pythagoras, Golden Verses with explanation: Phocylides: Cato's Sentences translated by Maximus Planudes.
23. Paper. 15th century. Greek-Latin Lexicon.
24. Paper. 16th century. Of a certain Latin named Christopher Anserinus, concerning the islands, addressed to Jordan, the Cardinal of the Roman Church.
25. Paper. 15th century. Polybius 1-5.
26. Paper. 15th century. Eudemus, Lexicon.
27. Paper. 15th century. Ptolemy, Geography: Dionysius, Periegesis.
28. Paper. 14th century. John Cantacuzene, History.
29. Paper. 15th century. Xenophon, Cyropaedia.
30. Paper. 15th century. Latin-Greek and Greek-Latin Lexicon.
31. Paper. 15th century. Hesiod, Theogony with commentary.
32. Paper. 15th century. Pindar, Olympians.
33. Paper. 15th century. Oppian, Halieutica.

Even these few rough notes are enough to show that we have here no remnants of the Imperial Library, but some more humble collection. It is made up of the kind of books that might have belonged to some doctor or other professional man in Constantinople in the 16th or 17th century, and displays a taste reasonably wide but not very deep. We must hope for a real catalogue sometime in the future when the world is quieter.

When I came out of the museums at about two o'clock, the firing was still proceeding merrily—in fact, it was increasing, for small parties of soldiers were now passing through the streets even of Pera A district in Constantinople., firing as they went, to the great alarm of