Show saved from the fire it has been thought or rather more correctly speaking only fondly hoped by the learned men throughout christendom that among the rubbishy chronicles of the there would some day be found the missing classics the lost books ot euclid and of livy among others indeed in some of the more ancient books of travel on morocco it Is expressly stated that many ot the that were saved from the burning of the alexandrian library were taken to seville granada and fez in weighing these statements I 1 think it should be remembered that the Kai rouin was founded at the very least year after the fire that was so disastrous to learning cud that theao would have had n lot of knocking about before they found a home on the shelves in the subterranean cellars of the Kai rouin I 1 think it possible that on leaving seville and granada the moors may have brought with them to morocco many of the precious volumes which are known to have iu these libraries bat which have now dis appeared Fortnightly review |