ly, whether I should
characterise them by a predicate eulogistic, or a predicate dyslogistic.
On the whole, I am content with my first idea, and continue to stick to
the title of "The Book-Hunter," with all the more assurance that it has
been tolerated, and even liked, by readers of the kind I am most
ambitious of pleasing.[23]

[Footnote 23: To afford the reader, however, an opportunity of noting at
a glance the appropriate learned terms applicable to the different sets
of persons who meddle with books, I subjoin the following definitions,
as rendered in D'Israeli's Curiosities, from the Chasse aux
Bibliographes et aux Antiquaires mal avises of Jean Joseph Rive:--

"A bibliognoste, from the Greek, is one knowing in title-pages and
colophons, and in editions; the place and year when printed; the presses
whence issued; and all the minutiae of a book."--"A bibliographe is a
describer of books and other literary arrangements."--"A bibliomane is
an indiscriminate accumulator, who blunders faster than he buys,
cock-brained and purse-heavy."--"A bibliophile, the lover of books, is
the only one in the class who appears to read them for his own
pleasure."--"A bibliotaphe buries his books, by keeping them under lock,
or framing them in glass-cases."

The accurate Peignot, after accepting of this classification with high
admiration of its simplicity and exhaustiveness, is seized in his
supplementary volume with a misgiving in the matter of the bibliotaphe,
explaining that it ought to be translated as a grave of books, and that
the proper technical expression for the performer referred to by Rive,
is bibliothapt. He adds to the nomenclature bibliolyte, as a destroyer
of books; bibliologue, one who discourses about books; bibliotacte, a
classifier of books; and bibliopee, "_l'art d'ecrire ou de composer des
livres_," or, as the unlearned would say, the function of an author. Of
the dignity with which this writer can invest the objects of his
nomenclature, take the following specimen from his description of the
bibliographe:--

"Nothing is rarer than to deserve the title of bibliographe, and nothing
more difficult and laborious than to attain a just title to it.

"Bibliography being the most universal and extensive of all sciences, it
would appear that all subjects should come under the consideration of
the bibliographe; languages, logic, criticism, philosophy, eloquence,
mathematics, geography, chronology, history, are no stra