here must have been
great bitterness in the Brown household before its mistress obtained her
own way, and even more in the heart of our poor friend as he stood at the
font and heard his firstborn son irrevocably named--George.

Another friend and brother collector with whom our book-hunter sometimes
passes an evening is a medical man of no small talent. But attached as he
is to his profession, archaeology is for ever striving with medicine for
the first place in his affections, and his knowledge of herbals and the
literature of alchemy is immense. His collection of works dealing with
these subjects is well known to the booksellers, and the book-hunter
sometimes receives a line from him asking him to pay a visit for the
purpose of examining some recently acquired treasure.

Of late his hobby has taken a curious turn. A chance conversation induced
him to inquire into the death of Queen Anne. He professed to discover, in
the accounts of her demise, certain symptoms which indicated a different
disease from that usually assigned to her. So now he must needs hold an
inquest upon the death of each one of our sovereigns, from the time of
King William the Conqueror. He is exceedingly enthusiastic about it, and
is preparing a paper to read before the local antiquarian society. In
this he hopes to prove conclusively the impossibility of lampreys having
had any share in the death of Henry the First, which was clearly due to
appendicitis.

Sometimes when the book-hunter visited his medical friend he would find
another collector there already, deep in bookish or scientific talk. Like
the doctor, the biologist was a specialist in books no less than in
science, and his hobby comprised a field till recent times untilled. Keen
though he was in his pursuit, it was the sea that claimed his every day
of leisure. An active mind, eager in the elucidation of the more abstruse
problems of physiology, yet his alert bearing, his quickness of movement
and springy step, spoke more of the quarterdeck than the laboratory.
Denied the sea as a profession, his heart was for ever in ships; and when
at length preferment took him inland to one of the ancient seats of
learning, the ordered training of his mind turned his hobby towards the
history and evolution of all craft that sail upon the waters.

He is a great authority upon all matters pertaining to the rigging of
mediaeval ships. The history of their hulls he leaves to the attention of
the importan