The Book-Lovers' Anthology

CONTENTS CONTENTS Addison, Joseph (1672-1719). The Legacies of Genius 14 The Authors' Advantage 60 The evil that Men do 80 A great Book is a great evil 119 Chance Readings 145 A Lady's Library 209 Books for a Lady's Library 211 Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888). The Fellowship of Books 6 Alcuin or Ealwhine (735-804). An Episcopal Library 311 Arblay, Frances, Madame d' (1752-1840). Royal Patronage of Books 253 Armstrong, John (1709-79). Read without Prejudice 127 Arnold, Matthew (1822-88). The Grand Mine of Diction 297 Ascham, Roger (1515-68). Books that do Hurt 77 Epitomes 138 Athenian Mercury, The Whether 'tis lawful to read Romances 85 Aungervile. See Bury. Austen, Jane (1775-1817). Only a Novel 87 Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam and Viscount St. Albans (1561-1626). Enduring Monuments 46 Old Authors to Read 65 Dedications 97 'Books will speak plain' 113 Studies 124 Commonplace Books 141 Over-reading 157 A great Necromancer 287 The Shrines of the Ancient Saints 325 Bailey, Philip James (1816-1902). 'Worthy Books' 5 Bale, John, Bishop of Ossory (1495-1563). A most Horrible Infamy 325 Barclay, Alexander (1475?-1552). Envoy to Fools 218 Barnes, William (1801-86). Learning 173 Barrow, Isaac (1630-77). He that loveth a Book will never want 3 Barton, Bernard (1784-1849). Composed in the Rev. J. Mitford's Library 324 Baxter, Richard (1615-91). Romances are Pernicious 84 Books preferred to Preachers 108 Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797-1839). A Novel of High Life 88 Beaconsfield, Earl of. See Disraeli, Benjamin . Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887). The Bodleian: a Dead Sea of Books 364 Beresford, James (1764-1840). Bibliosophia 225 Eye-worship 242 Blackie, John Stuart (1809-95). Overrating the Value of Books 162 Blanchard, Samuel Laman (1804-45). The Double Lesson 192 The Art of Book-keeping 280 Blount, Charles (1654-93). The Imprimatur 119 Boswell, James (1740-95). See also Johnson . Shakespeare in Heaven 48 Reading according to Inclination 128 Johnson's Cursory Reading 148 Talking from Books 153 The Dog and the Bone 170 Books you may hold in your hand 247 Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521). The Chief Fool 216 Browne, Sir Thomas (1605-82). Superfluous Books 58 Browne, Sir William (1692-1774). Oxford and Cambridge: an Epigram 113 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61). 'Books are men of higher stature' 39 Reading as Intellectual Indolence 159 The Poets 205 The World of Books 206 A Forced Sale 259 The Library in the Garret 318 Browning, Robert (1812-89). Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis 236 The Find 257 Brydges, Grey, Lord Chandos (1579?-1621). The greatest Clerks be not always the wisest Men 149 Buckingham, Duke of. See Sheffield . Bulwer. See Lytton, Lord . Bunyan, John (1628-88). The Scriptures: what are they? 292 Burney, Fanny. See Arblay . Burns, Robert (1759-96). The Bookworms 249 The big Ha'-Bible 298 Burton, John Hill (1809-81). A Sense of Humour 18 A Course of Reading 134 Definitions 235 Burton, Robert (1577-1640). An extraordinary Delight to study 26 'Though they write contemptu gloriae ' 51 Every Man his Due 89 Read the Scriptures 290 To be chained with good Authors 356 Bury, Richard de, Bishop of Durham (1281-1345). The Desirable Tabernacle 13 Books as Memorials 43 Woman and Books 203 Of Handling Books 239 Deductions from Scripture 240 Mammon and Books 273 Butler, Joseph (1692-1752). The Habit of Casual Reading 147 Butler, Samuel (1612-80). Superficial Readers 151 Butler, Samuel (1835-1902). Books in a New Light 330 Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824). A Lasting Link of Ages 52 ''Tis pleasant, sure' 95 Love and the Library 198 To Mr. Murray 268 Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831-84). Of Reading 135 Campion, Thomas (1567?-1620). The Writer to his Book 261 Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881). The Miraculous Art of Writing 42 The Virtue of a True Book 52 The Real Working Effective Church 109 The True University of These Days 112 A Very Priceless Thing 295 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616). 'There is no Book so bad' 117 The Burning of Don Quixote's Books 155 Chandos, Lord. See Brydges . Channing, William Ellery (1780-1842). Books the True Levellers 19 The Diffusion of Books and its Effect upon Culture 60 Folly generated by Books 156 Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340 ?-1400). To Drive the Night Away 169 Farewell to Books in Springtime 172 The Oxford Scholar and his Books 216 Chesterfield Earl of. See Stanhope . Churchyard, Thomas (1520 ?-1604). Books is Nurse to Truth 33 Cobbett, William (1762-1835). The Danger of Poets and Romances 86 A Birth of Intellect 184 Coleridge, Hartley (1796-1849). Suitable Bindings 246 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834). Books as Fruitful Trees 129 Reading to kill Time 153 The Pilgrim's Progress 293 Collier, Jeremy (1650-1726). Of the Entertainment of Books 34 Colton, Charles Caleb (1780 ?-1832). 'We should choose our Books' 6 'There are many Books written' 120 Readers and Writers 123 Title-readers 154 Books and Men 159 Cook, Eliza (1818-89). Old Story Books 177 ' Cornwall, Barry. ' See Procter, B. W. Cowley, Abraham (1618-67). 'May I a small house' 12 Material for Poesy 295 Pindaric Ode 360 Cowper, William (1731-1800). Books bad and good 81 Swallowing the Husks 158 'Twere well with most, if Books' 208 An Ode to Mr. John Rouse (translated from Milton) 357 Crabbe, George (1754-1832). The Prouder Pleasures of the Mind 26 The Old Bachelor's Books 21 The Peasant's Library 317 The Library 337 Crashaw, Richard (1613 ?-49). Upon the Book of St. Teresa 106 On a Prayer-Book sent to Mrs. M. R. 200 On George Herbert's The Temple , sent to a Gentlewoman 201 Cross, Mary Ann. See Eliot . Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619). Immortality in Books 46 O Blessed Letters 51 To the Countess of Bedford 195 Dante Alighieri (1265-1321). Love's Purveyor 192 Davenant, Sir William (1606-68). Hidden Treasure 92 Davies, Sir John (1569-1626). What profits it 163 Davy, Sir Humphry (1778-1829). Permanence for Thought 41 Dawson, George (1821-76). The Consulting-room of a Wise Man 309 The Reference Library 327 Denham, Sir John (1615-69). For wisdom, piety, delight, or use 33 De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859). Instruction or Amusement 36 The Distraction of Choice 61 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847). An Unworthy Professor 227 A Bibliomaniac 228 Book Illustrations and Nightmare 247 Dickens, Charles (1812-70). Early Reading 188 What a Heart-breaking Shop 272 Digby, Sir Kenelm (1603-65). Reading in Bed 169 Dillon, Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon (1633 ?-85). 'Choose an author as you choose a friend' 7 Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-81). 'Lady Constance guanoed her mind' 88 Biography preferred to History 99 'The author who speaks about his own Books' 154 D'Israeli, Isaac (1766-1848). Golden volumes! richest treasures 226 A Malady of weak Minds 227 Accidents to Books 275 Dodd, William (1729-77). In Prison 15 Donne, John (1573-1631). Valediction to his Book 190 The Library and the Grave 305 Dovaston, John Freeman Milward (1782-1854). The Cure for Bookworms 253 Drayton, Michael (1563-1631). Immortality in Song 56 Translations from the Classics 100 Drummond, William (1585-1649). The Strange Quality of Books 47 The Book of Nature 283 Of Libraries: The Bodleian 355 Dryden, John (1631-1700). A Learned Plagiary 91 Under Mr. Milton's Picture 106 Dudley, Earl of. See Ward . Dyer, George (1755-1841). 'Libraries are the wardrobes of literature' 306 Ealwhine. See Alcuin . Earle, John, Bishop of Salisbury (1601 ?-65). 'His Invention is no more' 94 A Critic 114 A Pretender to Learning 150 An Antiquary 219 ' Eliot, George ' (1819-80). The Vocation 260 'Wise books, For half the truths they hold' 287 Of The Imitation of Christ 299 Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-82). A Company of the Wisest and the Wittiest 6 The Theory of Books 21 The Book the Highest Delight 28 The pleasure derived from Books 29 Our Debt to a Book 29 A Sort of Third Estate 74 On Reading Translations 99 Merit in Quotation 103 The Need of a Guide to Books 111 The Final Verdict upon Books 116 'Talent alone cannot make a writer' 116 Reading between Lines 122 Rules for Reading 132 A Diet of Books 133 Erasmus, Desiderius (1466 ?-1536). The Royal Road 123 Faber, Frederick William (1814-63). The English of the Bible 297 A College Library 365 Ferriar, John (1761-1815). The Bibliomania 220 Fielding, Henry (1707-54). The filial piety of Books 118 Fletcher, John (1579-1625). The Library a Glorious Court 305 Fletcher, Phineas (1582-1650). Upon my Brother's Book 106 Foster, John (1770-1843). The Influence of Books 38 Reflections in a Library 332 Fuller, Thomas (1608-61). The Multiplicity of Books 57 Printers gain by bad Books 79 'A commonplace Book contains many notions' 142 Garnett, Richard (1835-1906). Our master, Meleager 95 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-65). Books for the Salon 304 Gay, John (1685-1732). The Elephant and the Bookseller 264 On a Miscellany of Poems 265 Gibbon, Edward (1737-94). Abstracts of Books 138 Early Reading 183 Women's Want 210 Gilfillan, George (1813-78). The True Poem on the Library 335 Gissing, George (1857-1903). The Mood for Books 40 The Scent of Books 310 Glanvill, Joseph (1636-80). 'That silly vanity of impertinent citations' 102 The Mote and the Beam 118 Godwin, William (1756-1836). The Depositary of everything honourable 15 Bad Books and debauched Minds 83 Goldsmith, Oliver (1728-74). Sweet Unreproaching Companions 4 The Reading of New Books 67 Literary Hypocrisy 115 'I love everything that is old' 269 Greene, Robert (1558-92). Books for Magic 288 Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-76). No Book like the Bible 293 Hales, John (1584-1656). The Method of reading profane History 136 Hall, John (1627-56). Men in their Nightgowns 98 When to Read 164 Hall, Joseph, Bishop of Exeter and Norwich (1574-1656). How to spend our Days 125 Reading and Meal Times 170 On the Sight of a Great Library 331 Hamilton, Sir William (1788-1856). Underscoring 140 Hare, Augustus William (1792-1834), and Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855). In the Seat of the Scorner 115 Books of One Thought 121 Purple Patches 122 Books that provoke Thought 131 Desultory Reading 148 Brains squashed by Books 156 Harington, Sir John (1561-1612). Against writers that carp 114 Hazlitt, William (1778-1830). The only Things that last for ever 49 On Reading Old Books 69 On Reading New Books 71 The best Books the commonest 182 The visionary Gleam 189 The enviable Bookworm 228 Ears nailed to Books 229 Helps, Sir Arthur (1813-75). Biography 99 Thoughts in a Library 334 Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (1793-1835). To a Family Bible 294 Herbert, George (1593-1633). The Parson's Accessory Knowledge 140 Herrick, Robert (1591-1674). To His Book 45 'Thou art a plant.' 'Make haste away.' 'If hap it must.' 'The bound, almost.' 'Go thou forth.' His Prayer for Absolution 77 Virginibus Puerisque 84 Lines have their linings, and Books their buckram 242 Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871). A Taste to be Prayed For 27 Novels as Engines of Civilization 87 Hobbes, Thomas (1588-1679). 'If I had read as much as other men' 158 Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-94). Old and New Books 74 Presentation Copies 98 'The foolishest Book' 118 The Literary Harem 233 Purchasing an Act of Piety 258 The Study 307 The Library as a Key to Character 309 'Every library should try to be complete' 318 Hood, Thomas (1799-1845). Rich Fare 29 Howell, James (1594?-1666). The Choice of Books 125 Marriage and Books 198 The Value of Book Borrowing 275 Hunt, James Henry Leigh (1784-1859). On Parting with my Books 9 Love that is large 16 Authors as Lovers of Books 20 The Authors' Metamorphosis 50 A Library of One 62 A Literatura Hilaris 167 Early Reading 187 Kissing a Folio 233 Delight in Book-Prints 248 The Second-hand Catalogue 256 Borrowing and Lending 278 Wedded to Books 278 The Book of Books 294 Literary Geography 300 Scotland 300 England 301 Ireland 302 The Library as Study 305 Charles Lamb's Library 323 Irving, Washington (1783-1859). True Friends that Cheer 9 Jago, Richard (1715-81). To a Lady furnishing her Library 212 Jefferies, Richard (1848-87). When Translations are to be preferred 101 In the British Museum Library 328 Jerrold, Douglas William (1803-57). 'A blessed companion is a Book' 12 Johnson, Lionel (1869-1902). Oxford Nights 366 Johnson, Samuel (1709-84). See also Boswell . Why Books are Read 37 An ignorant Age hath many Books 60 The Moons of Literature 67 Books of Morality 108 The Secret Influence of Books 109 Dead Counsellors are safest 109 Reading According to Inclination 128 Marginal Notes and Commonplace Books 143 Getting a Boy forward 181 At Large in the Library 181 Early Reading 183 Jonson, Ben (1573 ?-1637). To Sir Henry Goodyer 10 To my Book 76 Book-makers and Plagiarists 91 To George Chapman 101 What Shakespeare hath left us 103 On the Portrait of Shakespeare 105 The first Authors for Youth 180 To my Bookseller 261 Keats, John (1795-1821). On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 100 King, William (1663-1712). A Moth 252 A Modern Library 311 Kingsley, Charles (1819-75). Useful and Mighty Things 25 Liberty and Bad Books 83 Lamb, Charles (1775-1834). Grace before Books 1 A Catholic Taste in Books 17 A Whimsical Surprise 84 Books with One Idea in Them 121 When and Where to Read 130 Proof of good Matter 170 Out-of-doors Reading 171 Discrimination in Bindings 244 The Treasure 254 The Readers at the Bookstall 255 To the Editor of The Everyday Book 269 The Poor Student 274 Borrowers of Books 276 The Bodleians of Oxford 364 Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864). To Wordsworth 21 'Well I remember how you smiled' 57 The Dead alone Canonized 66 The Classics 67 To Leigh Hunt 95 Small Authors Dangerous 131 Old-Fashioned Verse 186 Sent with Poems 202 Safe and untouched 312 Law, William (1686-1761). Classicus 66 Poetry and Piety 209 Leighton, Robert (1822-69). The Libraries of Heaven 49 Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818). In Paternoster Row 263 Locke, John (1632-1704). Chewing the Cud 126 A new Method of a Commonplace Book 141 Lockhart, John Gibson (1794-1854). The Bible and Burns 298 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-82). My Books 10 'The sweet serenity' 20 Bayard Taylor 234 The Wind over the Chimney 286 Lowe, Robert, Lord Sherbrooke (1811-92). Remunerative Reading 39 Lowell, James Russell (1819-91). Security in Old Books 75 Literature for Desolate Islands 303 Lyly, John (1554 ?-1606). Fashion in Books 43 'Far more seemly were it' 304 Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron (1803-73). The Souls of Books 22 The Classics always Modern 68 The Bee and the Butterfly 143 The Pharmacy of Books 165 The Library an Heraclea 329 M., J. (fl. 1627). On the Library at Cambridge 368 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord (1800-59). Action and Reaction 53 The Value of Modern Books 73 Original Editions 96 The Critics' Influence on the Public 117 Classical Education for Women 207 'I would rather be a poor man' 232 Maccreery, John (1768-1832). Bookbindings 243 Maginn, William (1793-1842). The Booksellers' Banquet 271 Mallet, David (1705 ?-65). The Reading Coxcomb 152 Maurice, Frederick Denison (1805-72). The Ultimate Test of Books 53 The Message of Books 161 Milton, John (1608-74). Books are not dead things 47 'To the pure all things are pure' 83 Plagiarie 90 Shakespeare's livelong Monument 105 'Deep-versed in Books and shallow in himself' 157 Tetrachordon 256 An Ode to Mr. John Rouse (translated by Cowper) 357 Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855). That invention of the enemy—an Abridgement 96 Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762). A cheap and lasting Pleasure 204 Montaigne, Michael Eyquem de (1533-92). John Florio's Translation— The Commodity Reaped of Books 32 Coats for Mackerel 44 Transplantation 90 Inductive Criticism 122 'There's more ado to interpret interpretation' 122 Bescribbling with Notes 139 Skipping Wit 144 Books an Enemy to Health 163 Early Reading 182 Letter-Ferrets 218 The Author's Library 319 Moore, Thomas (1779-1852). 'My only Books' 196 A Counter Attraction 199 More, Hannah (1745-1833). A Daughter's Favourite Novels 86 Literary Cookery 92 More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535). Of a New-married Student 198 Norris, John (1657-1711). 'Reading without thinking' 142 Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah ( Lady Stirling-Maxwell ) (1808-77). To my Books 8 Norton, John Bruce (1815-83). Merton Library 365 Oldham, John (1653-83). To Cosmelia 199 Orford, Earl of. See Walpole . Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613). Man's Prerogative 13 Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718). The Bookworm 250 Parrot, Henry (fl. 1600-26). Ad Bibliopolam 262 Pattison, Mark (1813-84). The Manufactory of Books 92 Payn, James (1830-98). The Blessed Chloroform of the Mind 168 Peacham, Henry (1576 ?-1643 ?). A Bookish Ambition 149 Care as to Bindings 241 Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866). The Outside of a Book 247 Percy, Thomas, Bishop of Dromore (1729-1811). Why Books were Invented 37 Petrarch (Petrarca) Francesco (1304-74). The Delightful Society of Books 1 Pope, Alexander (1688-1744). Style v. Sense 114 Where Fools Rush In 115 Homer and Virgil 127 Lintott's New Miscellany 267 Cibber's Library 313 Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802-39). To Helen: written in Keble's Christian Year 201 Prideaux, Peter (1578-1650). On the Death of Sir Thomas Bodley 356 Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825-64). A Student 238 Procter, Bryan Waller ( Barry Cornwall ) (1787-1874). My Books 8 Quarles, Francis (1572-1644). On Buying the Bible 291 Rabelais, François (1483-1553). By Divine Inspiration 41 Writing at Meal Times 171 Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761). Advice to Mothers 181 Robertson, Frederick William (1816-53). Books instead of Stimulants 165 Rochester, Earl of. See Wilmot . Roscoe, William Caldwell (1823-59). To my Books on Parting with Them 9 Roscommon, Earl of. See Dillon . Ruskin, John (1819-1900). Books of the Hour and of all Time 54 Taste in Literature and Art 117 Reading and Illiteracy 159 Girls' Reading 208 The Most Valuable Book 254 National Expenditure on Books 274 Libraries for Every City 326 St. Albans, Viscount. See Bacon . Saxe, John Godfrey (1816-87). The Library 354 Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832). Appetite and Satiety 147 The Ghost of Betty Barnes 203 The Antiquary's Treasures 231 The Bannatyne Club 270 Dominie Sampson in the Library 315 Selden, John (1584-1654). 'It is good to have translations' 100 Quotation 102 Censorship 119 Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). 'Who will believe my verse' 55 'Study is like the heaven's glorious sun' 159 'How well he's read' 162 Books and Eyesight 164 Reading for Love's Sake 189 The Book of the Brain 191 Books as Spokesmen 194 Women's eyes 196 'Marriage! my years are young' 198 'The state, whereon I studied' 215 Dainties that are Bred of a Book 219 'Is not the leaf turned down' 240 Gold Clasps and a Golden Story 242 Nobler than Contents 242 'Hark you, sir; I'll have them very fairly bound' 243 'In Nature's infinite Book' 283 The Secret of Strength 288 Red Letters and Conjuring 289 'Come, and take choice' 306 'Of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my Books' 310 'Me, poor man,—my library' 316 Sheffield, John, Duke of Buckingham (1648-1721). The Sufficiency of Homer 127 Sherbrooke, Viscount. See Lowe . Sheridan, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah. See Norton . Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816). 'Steal! to be sure they will' 91 Lydia Languish and the Circulating Library 213 A neat Rivulet of Text 249 Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738). Our Best Acquaintance 11 Shirley, James (1596-1666). Sweet and Happy Hours 26 A Book of Flesh and Blood 196 Skelton, John (1460 ?-1529). An Edition de luxe 241 Smith, Alexander (1830-67). The True Elysian Fields 11 Power and Gladness 32 Smith, Sydney (1771-1845). A Short Cut to Fame 154 'No furniture so charming as Books' 264 South, Robert (1634-1716). 'He who has published an injurious Book' 80 A little Book the most excellent 120 'Much reading is like much eating' 158 Southey, Robert (1774-1843). My days among the Dead are passed 4 A Heavenly Delight 5 The Best of all Possible Company 5 More than Meat, Drink, and Clothing 28 A Library of Twelve 62 Reading several Books at a time 130 Homo Unius Libri 292 A Colloquy in a Library 320 Spenser, Edmund (1552 ?-99). One day I wrote her name 56 To his Book: of his Lady 195 Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773). A Consolation for the Deaf 4 Books and the World 180 The last Editions the best 235 'Tis folly to be wise 246 Genteel Ornaments 273 Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729). Exercise for the Mind 37 Stephen, Sir James (1789-1859). Poets as Commentators 136 Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768). The Company of Mutes 3 Mr. Shandy's Library 314 Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Picture-Books in Winter 174 Stirling-Maxwell, Lady. See Norton . Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745). The Battle of the Books 63 Recipe for an Anthology 94 Cupid and the Book of Poems 194 A Standard for Language 296 'I have sometimes heard' 303 Sylvester, Josuah (1563-1618). Surcloying the Stomach 156 Symonds, John Addington (1840-93). [Greek: hupothêkê eis emauton]('Back to thy books!') 197 Taylor, John (1580-1653). Books and Thieves 77 To the Good or Bad Reader 150 Fast and Loose 289 On Coryat's Crudities 302 Temple, Sir William (1628-99). The Multiplication of Originals 59 Ancient and Modern Books 63 Books as Signposts 110 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-92). Poets and their Bibliographies 98 Merlin's Book 289 Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-63). Novels are Sweets 89 'There are no race of people who talk about Books' 153 A Kindly Tie 187 Thomson, James (1700-48). The Mighty Dead 161 Thomson, Richard (1794-1865). The Book of Life 284 Tickle, Thomas (1686-1740). The Hornbook 175 Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812). Read Few Books well 129 Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747). Oxford and Cambridge: an Epigram 113 Trench, Richard Chevenix, Archbishop of Dublin (1807-86). Books and Life 160 Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-89). Books and Friends 12 Turner, Charles Tennyson (1808-79). On Certain Books 82 Vaughan, Henry (1622-95). To his Books 13 The Book 284 To the Holy Bible 290 On Sir Thomas Bodley's Library 362 Vere, Sir Aubrey de (1788-1846). Sacred and Profane Writers 296 Verulam, Lord . See Bacon . Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). Multiplication is Vexation 59 The Seat of Authority 107 Waller, Sir William (1597 ?-1668). The Contentment I have in my Books 2 Riding Post 146 Full Libraries and Empty Heads 149 Walpole, Horatio, Earl of Orford (1717-97). Lounging Books 169 Literary Upholsterers 264 Ward, John William, Earl of Dudley (1781-1833). A Preference for Great Models 72 Watts, Isaac (1674-1748). Books to be Marked 139 Wesley, John (1703-91). 'I read only the Bible' 291 A Man of one Book 292 Whitelocke, Bulstrode (1605-75). The Soul's Viaticum 368 Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-92). A Magnate in the Realm of Books 7 The Library 326 Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647-80). 'Books bear him up awhile' 39 Wilson, John (d. 1889). O for a Booke 171 Wither, George (1588-1667). Mountebank Authors 78 'Good God! how many dungboats' 94 In bondage to the Bookseller 262 Wordsworth, William (1770-1850). Books a substantial World 21 The Tables Turned 172 Early Reading 184 Young, Edward (1683-1765). How Volumes Swell 93 An ignorant Book-collector 219 Notes 369 Index of Authors mentioned in the Text and in the Notes 400

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