KS FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF SAMUEL BUTLER

BUTLER wrote to Robert Bridges, 6 Feb. 1900, "I have, I verily believe,
the smallest library of any man in London who is by way of being
literary." (_Memoir_, II., 320.)

Cf. no. 9 in Section I. Pictures, "Interior of Butler's sitting-room,"
where part of his library is shown. The rest of his books were in a
cupboard between his sitting-room and his painting-room. They all passed
under the residuary bequest in his will to his nephew, Henry Thomas
Butler, who gave them to me. Some were taken by Streatfeild, his
literary executor, and some few were lost in transitu; the remainder are
here.

AGAR, T. L. Emendationes Homericae. [189-]

With notes by Butler.

ALLEN, GRANT. Charles Darwin. By Grant Allen. (English Worthies.)
London, 1885.

Butler was asked to review this, but declined on the ground that there
was too strong a personal hostility between both Darwin and Grant Allen
and himself to make it possible for him to review the book without a bias
against it. (_Memoir_, II. 28.)

ANDERSON, W. C. F. See Engelman, R.

BETTANY, G. T. The Life of Charles Darwin. (Great Writers.) London,
1887.

BIBLE, THE HOLY. Oxford, 1836.

Inscribed "Samuel Butler, from his affectionate Godmother and Aunt Anna
Worsley, September 13th, 1836." So that he was not christened till he
was more than nine months old, and he used to say that this delay was a
risky business, because during all those months the devil had the run of
him. He imitated the inscription in this Bible for the inscription in
the christening Bible which Ernest spurns from him when he is about to
undertake the conversion of Miss Maitland in chapter lx. of _The Way of
All Flesh_. But he imitated it too closely for he wrote, "It was the
Bible given him at his christening by his affectionate Godmother and
Aunt, Elizabeth Allaby." Whereas Ernest only had one godmother, and she
was Alethea, the sister of Theobald. Anna Worsley was a sister of
Butler's mother, and Elizabeth Allaby was a sister of Ernest's mother.

BIBLE. New Testament in Greek. Oxford, 1851.

Two copies, with very numerous MS. notes by Butler. Given to St. John's
College some years ago.

BORDIGA, GAUDENZIO. Notizie intorno alle opere di Gaudenzio Ferrari.
Milano, 1821.

Used by Butler in writing _Ex Voto_.

BOSWELL, JAMES. Croker's Boswell's Johnson. New edition. London, 1860.

Pencil marks by Butler.

BRIDGES, ROBERT. Po