' time. You take one of these
boluses just before each meal and one before going to bed. In about
three days you become aware that your olfactories are losing that
keenness of function which has enabled you to nose out old books and
to determine the age thereof merely by sniffing at the binding. In a
week distaste for book-hunting is exhibited, and this increases
until at the end of a fortnight you are ready to burn every volume
you can lay hands on. No man can take this remedy for three weeks
without being wholly and permanently cured of bibliomania. I have
also another gold preparation warranted to cure the mania for old
prints, old china, old silver, and old furniture."

Mr. Thompson had no sooner ended his remarks when a score of Saints
and Sinners sprang up to protest against this ribald quackery. The
utmost confusion prevailed for several moments. Finally the
venerable Dr. Poole was accorded the floor. "Far be it from me,"
said he, solemnly, "to lend my approval to any enterprise that
contemplates bibliomania as a disease instead of a crime.
(Applause.) I live in Evanston, the home of that saintly woman Miss
Willard, and under her teachings I have become convinced that
bibliomania is a sin which must be eradicated by piety and not by
pills. Rather than be cured by heretical means, I prefer not to be
cured at all." (Great cheering.)

Remarks in a similar vein were made by Messrs. Ballantyne, Larned,
Hamlin, Smith, Barnes, Cole, Magee, Taylor, and Carpenter. Dr.
Gunsaulus seemed rather inclined to try the cure, but he doubted
whether he could stick to it for three weeks. Finally, a compromise
was effected by the adoption of the following resolutions submitted
by the Rev. Dr. Bristol:

"Resolved, that we, Saints and Sinners, individually and
collectively, defer, postpone, suspend, and delay all experiment and
essay with the bichloride bibliomania bolus until after the
approaching holiday season, and furthermore,

"Resolved, that at the expiration of this specified interdicted
season we will see about it."

Suspecting treachery, Dr. Gunsaulus secured the adoption of another
resolution forbidding any member of the organization to secure or
apply for an option on the said boluses before formal action with
reference to the vaunted cure had been taken by the Saints and
Sinners in regular meeting.

November, 1891.

However, Field did no