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My father, in his travels and in the world which he had seen, might have formed some conception of a more elegant and liberal mode of life than was, perhaps, common among his fellow-citizens. In this respect, however, he was not entirely without predecessors and associates. The name of Uffenbach is well known. At that time, there was a Schoeff von Uffenbach, who was generally respected.
The German scholar Uffenbach, who visited the elector's library in VI I, says of them: "Among the few MSS. that were shown to me, the most remarkable was a beautiful old quarto codex of Horace, which Graevius once lent to Mr. Bentley, who could not be prevailed on to restore it till forced into it by the threat that the elector would appeal to the Queen.
The above books, together with others not mentioned by Uffenbach, subsequently found their way into the Harleian library, and have been identified by Mr. A. C. Clark, who has made a careful study of them aided by the dates written in Wanley's hand on the first page.* * See his interesting paper in the "Classical Review," October 1891, The Library of J. G. Gravius.
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