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