_Ruding's Annotated Langbaine._--Can any of your readers inform me who
possesses the copy of Langbaine's _Account of the English Dramatic Poets_
with MS. additions, and copious continuations, by the REV. ROGERS RUDING?
In one of his notes, speaking of the Garrick collection of old plays, that
industrious antiquary observes:
"This noble collection has lately (1784) been mutilated by tearing out
such single plays as were duplicates to others in the Sloane Library.
The folio editions of Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher, and Jonson,
have likewise been taken from it for the same reason."
This is a sad complaint against the Museum authorities of former times.