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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 www.gutenberg.org Title: The Bibliotaph and Other People Author: Leon H. Vincent Release Date: May 2, 2007 [EBook #21272] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BIBLIOTAPH *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE BIBLIOTAPH And Other People BY 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, D.D. 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 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 th
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