262 The Library. books, and other classes of illustrated literature which throw light on his main subject. A word should have been said as to the rebus verses which sometimes appear at the end of Horce, specimens of them being given by Bounet in his list. The majority of Hieroglyphic Bibles, how- ever, do not use rebuses (in which the different syllables of a word are pictorially represented by symbols which need have no connection with the whole), but simple hieroglyphs, in which the word is represented by the picture of the thing itself. Exceptions occur Mr. Clouston quotes a terrible one in which and is represented by a hand but the extreme irreverence of the rebus is too obvious for it to have been widely adopted. Whether the hieroglyph is more than one degree better may perhaps be doubted. public libraries (Scotland Hct, 1894, [57 & 58 VlCT.] [CH. 20.] Chapter 20. An Act to amend the Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1887. [20th July, 1894.] BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 1. This Act may be cited as the Public Libraries (Scotland) Act, 1894, and shall be construed as one with the Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act, 1887 (in this Act referred to as the principal Act), and these two Acts may be together cited as the Public Libraries (Scotland) Acts, 1887 and 1894. 2. (i.) In burghs the principal Act may be adopted by a resolution of the magistrates and council of the burgh, and such resolution shall be substituted for a determination of the householders of the burgh in any case where such determination is required under the principal Act. (2.) Sections four, five, and six of the principal Act are hereby repealed, so far as they relate to burghs. 3. (I.) A resolution under this Act shall be passed at a meeting of the magistrates and council, and one month at least before such meeting special notice thereof and of the intention to propose such resolution shall be given to every person included in the collective expression " magistrates and council," either (a) in the mode in which notices to attend meetings of the magistrates and council are usually given ; or, in the option of the chief magistrate, (b) by forwarding a notice by post in a prepaid letter addressed to the usual or last-known place of abode of every person entitled to notice under this section. (2.) The resolution shall, after the passing thereof, be published at least once by advertisement in one or more newspapers circulating in the burgh, and shall come into operation at a time to be fixed in the resolution itself, being not less than one month after the publication or first publication of the advertisement thereof herein-before provided. (3.) A copy of the newspaper or newspapers containing the advertisement shall be conclusive evidence of the resolution having been passed unless the con- trary be shown; and no objection to the effect of the resolution on the ground that notice of the intention to propose the same was not duly given, or on the ground that the resolution was not sufficienly published, shall be made after three months from the publication or first publication of the advertisement.
