Our Growing Collections

ROLAND BAUGH.MAN

Benison gift. Dr. Saul Benison (Ph.D., 1953) has presented in
memory of his father, Nathan Benison, a rare early American
imprint. It is a,sermon by Jonathan Edwards (1703-58), A Divine
and Supernatural Light, published in Boston in 1734. This is one
of Edwards' more important sermons and was printed at the
expense of his parish, that of East Windsor, Connecticut.

Benjamin gift. Mr. Henry Rogers Benjamin has recently made
a formal disposition of the large collection which he presented
to the Columbia Libraries some years ago at the time of the death
of his father, the late William Evarts Benjamin. One hundred of
the rarest books and manuscripts in this collection are to be main¬
tained as a unit and are to be known as "The Henry Rogers
Benjamin Collection in Memory of William Evarts Benjamin and
Anne Rogers Benjamin." A catalogue of the collection is in prep¬
aration and will be issued in printed form in the near future. Mr.
Merle M. Hoover is compiling a memoir of W. E. Benjamin for
inclusion in the publication.

Berol gift. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Berol have presented a remark¬
able series of thirty-four framed paintings, engravings, etchings,
and prints. Among these is a small painting attributed to Adriaen
van Ostade (1610-1685) of an old mendicant seated before a
house wall, a favorite theme of the artist. Also of prime interest
is a woodcut by Albrecht Diirer, the subject being the well-known
one of St. Jerome with pen and book at his xvriting desk, a lion
at his feet, dated 1511, and another in the style of Diirer, depicting
the rest on the flight into Egypt, also dated 1511.
 

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