TAILIEUCHUNG - The Bibliotaph and Other People

A popular and fairly orthodox opinion concerning book-collectors is that their vices are many, their virtues of a negative sort, and their ways altogether past finding out. Yet the most hostile critic is bound to admit that the fraternity of bibliophiles is eminently picturesque. If their doings are inscrutable, they are also romantic; if their vices are numerous, the heinousness of those vices is mitigated by the fact that it is possible to sin humorously. Regard him how you will, the sayings and doings of the collector give life and color to the pages of those books which treat of books. He is amusing when. | The Bibliotaph by Leon H. Vincent 1 The Bibliotaph by Leon H. Vincent The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Bibliotaph by Leon H. Vincent This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Bibliotaph and Other People Author Leon H. Vincent Release Date May 2 2007 EBook 21272 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BIBLIOTAPH Produced by Barbara Tozier Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http THE BIBLIOTAPH And Other People BY The Bibliotaph by Leon H. Vincent 2 LEON H. VINCENT BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1899 COPYRIGHT 1898 BY LEON H. VINCENT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TO MY FATHER THE REV. B. T. VINCENT . THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS Dedicated WITH LOVE AND ADMIRATION Four of these papers--the first Bibliotaph and the notes on Keats Gautier and Stevenson s St. Ives--are reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly by the kind permission of the editor. I am also indebted to the literary editor of the Springfield Republican and to the editors of Poet-Lore respectively for allowing me to reprint the paper on Thomas Hardy and the lecture on An Elizabethan Novelist. CONTENTS THE BIBLIOTAPH A PORTRAIT NOT WHOLLY IMAGINARY THE BIBLIOTAPH HIS FRIENDS SCRAP-BOOKS AND BINS LAST WORDS ON THE BIBLIOTAPH THOMAS HARDY A READING IN THE LETTERS OF JOHN KEATS AN ELIZABETHAN NOVELIST THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FAIR-MINDED MAN CONCERNING A RED WAISTCOAT STEVENSON THE VAGABOND AND THE PHILOSOPHER STEVENSON S ST. IVES THE BIBLIOTAPH AND OTHER PEOPLE THE BIBLIOTAPH A PORTRAIT NOT WHOLLY IMAGINARY A popular and fairly orthodox opinion concerning book-collectors is that their vices are many their virtues of a negative sort and their ways altogether past finding out. Yet the

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• THE BIBLIOTAPH
• WHOLLY IMAGINARY
• THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• PORTRAIT
• THOMAS HARDY