n enabled to correct a
few inaccuracies which they have courteously characterised as mere
errors of the press. Productions of this indefinite kind are apt to grow
in the hands of an author; and in the course of his revision he was
unable to resist the temptation to throw in a few additional touches
here and there, as to which he can only hope that they will not
deteriorate the volume in the eyes of those who thought well of it in
its old shape.

1863.

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_CONTENTS._

PAGE
MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, i

_THE BOOK-HUNTER._

Part I.--His Nature.

INTRODUCTORY, 1
A VISION OF MIGHTY BOOK-HUNTERS, 14
REMINISCENCES, 59
CLASSIFICATION, 62
THE PROWLER AND THE AUCTION-HAUNTER, 88

Part II.--His Functions.

THE HOBBY, 101
THE DESULTORY READER OR BOHEMIAN OF LITERATURE, 108
THE COLLECTOR AND THE SCHOLAR, 115
THE GLEANER AND HIS HARVEST, 124
PRETENDERS, 161
HIS ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE CREATION OF LIBRARIES, 168
THE PRESERVATION OF LITERATURE, 205
LIBRARIANS, 227
BIBLIOGRAPHIES, 233

Part III.--His Club.

CLUBS IN GENERAL, 243
THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK CLUBS, 251
THE ROXBURGHE CLUB, 265
SOME BOOK-CLUB MEN, 283

Part IV.--Book-Club Literature.

GENERALITIES, 311
JOHN SPALDING, 330
ROBERT WODROW, 338
THE EARLY NORTHERN SAINTS, 352
SERMONS IN STONES, 404

INDEX, 419

List of Illustrations.

PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR, _Frontispiece._
THE AVENUE, CRAIGHOUSE, i
CRAIGHOUSE, lix
DALMENY CHURCHYARD, civ
A NOOK IN THE AUTHOR'S LIBRARY, 1

[Illustration: _The Avenue, Craighouse._]

MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.