Apostles; the Miraculous Draught of Fishes; the Death of Ananias; Paul preaching at Athens; Elymas, the Sorcerer, struck blind; the Sacrifice to Paul and Barnabas, and Peter and John healing the Cripples at the Beautiful Gate. In the centre of the east side is a very fine statue of William Earl of Pembroke, in brass, designed by Rubens, and cast by Hubert le Soeur, who did the equestrian statue of Charles I., at Charing Cross. In different parts of the gallery are placed a few busts, some of which are much admired. The cases contain books belonging to the Bodleian Library. -The north and south sides, are 129 feet long, and 244 broad; the east side 158 feet by 244. 1 Pictures, &c. on the Staircase. A Bust of Sir Thomas Bodley | A South Prospect of Oxford shop of Canterbury) pro-James Zarabella 1. on which is founded the Temperance Liberty of the British Con-Christopher Columbus stitution Sir Martin Frobisher Isaac Casaubon Meric Casaubon Dr. Coney Admiral Hawkins An Historical Picture, representing God's Covenant with Noah after the Flood. THE ARUNDEL MARBLES are on the north-side of the square of the Schools; these were given to the University by the Duke of Norfolk, then Lord Howard, in 1677. Of these Marbles we have been favoured with the following account, given by the late Rev. John Price, many years head Librarian of the Bodleian Library, to Mr. Cowderoy, who shews the Picture Gallery and Library: "Thomas, Earl of Arundel and Surry, Lord “Marshal of England, sent William Petty into "Asia, to search for some curious monuments "of antiquity, where he bought those which we "call the Arundel Marbles, of a Turk, who "had taken them from a learned man, sent by "the famous Peiresc into Greece and Asia, "upon the same design. These precious Mar❝bles were placed in the Earl's house and gar"dens, upon the banks of the Thames, Selden "wrote a book of what they contained in 1629, "which has been a great help to D. Petau, "Saumaise, Vossius, and several learned men, "in their works. These ancient Marbles dis cover several things, both concerning the his66 tory and chronology of the Greeks. Amongst “the epochas, marked in them, there are three "very particular, viz. the 9th, which they "reckoned from the arrival of the first ship. "out of Egypt into Greece, and 1512 years "before the birth of Christ; the 12th, which 66 they counted from the time that Ceres came "to Athens, in Erechtheus's reign; and the 40th, from the day that comedies began to be "acted at Athens, according to Susarion's in"vention. Another of these Marbles shews "what gave occasion to the Fable of the Cen "taurs, viz. hunting the wild Bull, first in"vented by the Thessalians: they also furnish "us with several other curious observations, as "that the custom of burning bodies was laid "aside in Macrobius's time; and that none "but emperors, vestals, and men of special "note, were suffered to have their tombs within "the walls of Rome." Here are also the antique Marbles given by the executors of the learned Selden. Opposite the entrance to the Bodleian is the Logic and Moral Philosophy School, which contains the marbles, statues, busts, &c. presented to the University in 1755, by the Countess Dowager of Pomfret, of which the following is a list : POMFRET 1 A Grecian Lady 2 Archimedes -3 A Roman Emperor 4 Minerva 5 A Roman Emperor 6 Cicero in the proper habit 7 A Grecian Lady 8 A Column from the Tem 23 A Grecian Lady ple of Apollo at Delphos, 27 Scipio Africanus, or De with an Apollo placed. at the top 9 Sabina 10 A Venus de Medicis 11 A square Roman Altar 12 Terminus of Pan 13 Minerva 14 A Roman Altar 15 A Statue of a Woman 16 A Venus 17 A Roman Altar 18 A Statue of Clio sitting 19 A Roman Altar 20. Statue of a young Dacian mosthenes 28 A Woman clothed 29 A trunk of a Woman 31 Jupiter sitting 33 The trunk of a Woman 36 An Egyptian Chair 101 The Triumph of Amphitryon 61. A basso relievo of a Da 102 A trunk of a Woman cian's Sacrifice 62 A part of a Sacrifice 63 A naked trunk of an Hermaphrodite 64 Basso relievo 65 Basso relievo of a herd 103 The taking of Troy 104 Boys embracing 105 The Herculean Games 106 Boys 107 A Woinan and a Child Shep-108 A Roman Monument, 66 A Bacchanalian 67 A Woman's Head 68 The trunk of a Man 69 A trunk of a Woman 70 A Consular Trunk. 71 Trunk of a Woman 72 Bust of a Roman 73 The Head of a Man 74 A trunk of Venus 75 An old Man's Head 6 A Man's Head 77 Part of a Head and Neck 78 An old Man's Head 79 A Statue of a young Satyr 80 A trunk of a Man 81 Beasts devouring meu 82 A trunk of a Woman with three Busts 109 Part of a Roman Monument 110 Ditto 111 Bust of a Roman Head 112 Ditto 113 A Roman Bust 114 A Bust of Fauna 115 Ditto of Faunus 116 The Bust of a young Man 117 A Bust of Diana 118 Ditto of a Grecian 119 Ditto of a Woman 120 Ditto of a Philosopher 121 Philosophy, a Bust 122 A Bust of Niobe 123 Ditto of one of her sons 124 A Bust of Venus de Me- 132 A Bust of a Roman Opposite to the gateway of five Orders, is the entrance to the DIVINITY SCHOOL. This fine room was completed in 1480; it displays an example of rich Gothic masonry that has few rivals. Sir Christopher Wren was employed, in the beginning of the last century, to repair and restore its splendid stone roof; and he executed the work with that skill and judgment which distinguished all his undertakings. Opposite the Divinity School stands THE THEATRE. This fine edifice, which is one of the principal ornaments of Oxford, was designed and completed in five years, by one of the Professors, the great Sir Christopher Wren, who from being the most profound mathematician of his age, became its first architect. The first stone of it was laid in 1664, and the whole expense of building and fitting it up was defrayed by Archbishop Sheldon, amounting to nearly fifteen thousand pounds. He added two thousand pounds to be laid out in estates for its support |