What a difficulty there is to obtain admission to the curious library of old Samuel Pepys, the well-known diarist.

There it is at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in the identical book-cases provided for the books by Pepys himself; but no one can gain admission except in company of two Fellows of the College, and if a single book be lost, the whole library goes away to a neighbouring college.

However willing and anxious to oblige, it is evident that no one can use the library at the expense of the time, if not temper, of two Fellows.

Some similar restrictions are in force at the Teylerian Museum, Haarlem, where a lifelong imprisonment is inflicted upon its many treasures.
Some centuries ago a valuable collection of books was left to the Guildford Endowed Grammar School.

The schoolmaster was to be held personally responsible for the safety of every volume, which, if lost, he was bound to replace.