. Les bibliothèques publiques de Liverpool. Une histoire de cinquante ans. feelingsor mon propre, et pourtant, je crois qu'il est très difficile le toexpress pensées dans nos cœurs ce soir.Cette ville a eu un cadeau présenté ce point de dayin munificence sans précédent dans l'annalsof la ville, et nous sommes réunis ici ce soir à l'honneur todo noble d'esprit et grand-hearteddonor. Prix nous qu'il est très, messieurs, mesdames, andgentlemen, mais pas sur que seul compte. Cadeaux, ainsi que les actes, doivent être évaluées pour theirsplendor pas seulement, mais pour leur utilité et theconsequences ils sont susceptibles de produire. Wemeasure l'acte

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. Liverpool public libraries. A history of fifty years. feelingsor my own, and yet I feel it very difficult toexpress the thoughts in our hearts this evening.This town has had a gift presented to it this dayin point of munificence unparalleled in the annalsof the town, and we are met here this evening todo honour to the noble-minded and large-hearteddonor. We prize it highly, my lords, ladies, andgentlemen, but not on that account alone. Gifts, as well as deeds, are to be valued not for theirsplendour only, but for their utility and theconsequences they are likely to produce. Wemeasure the deeds of the warrior not by theirdaring only, but by the results they may happilyensure; we estimate the measures of the statesmannot so much by the eloquence with which heproclaims them as by the beneficial effects whichthey may have on the interests of the world. Weadmire the works of the poet and the historian lessfor the beauty of art than for the beauty ofcomposition, and we appreciate the labours of thephilanthropist who has gauged the wants of his. History of the Liverpool Public Libraries. gi fellow-man less for the greatness of the gift thanfor the benefit which it has conferred on mankind.We prize this, my lords, ladies, and gentlemen, for the munificence, the wise consideration and thekindly spirit which have dictated the gift of thisday, which to all coming time will connect theprosperity of Liverpool with the name andliberality of William Brown. At this period ofthe evening, my lords, ladies, and gentlemen, it ismy pleasing duty to inaugurate the marblerepresentation of your honoured guest. It is truewe need no memento, for his lasting monumentwill ever be found in the noble building which hehas presented to the town this day. Still ourchildrens children might desire to see the outwardlineaments of their fathers friend, and we are gladthat the sculptors art has secured for us a faithfullikeness of the venerable man. I give you, mylords, ladies, and gentlemen, The health

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