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CHE BOOKMART.

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF

LITERARY. LIBRARY AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL INTELLIGENCE,

AND A MEDIUM FOR THE

PURCHASE AND SALE OF BOOKS.

SINGLE COPIES 15 CENTS. YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION $1.50.

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Bookmart Publishing Company, Pittsburg, Pa. W. S. A.

Entered at the Post Office Pittsburg, Pa., as second class matter,

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THE

BOOKMART.

VOL. V.

JULY, 1887.

GHOSTS IN THE LIBRARY,
Suppose, when now the house is dumb,
When lights are out and ashes fall,—
Suppose their ancient owners come

To claim our spoils of shop and stall,
Ah me! within the narrow hall

How strange a mob would ineet and go,
What famous folk would haunt them all,
Octavo, quarto, folio!

The great Napoleon lays his hand
Upon this eagle headed N,
That marks for his a pamphlet banned
By all but scandal-loving men,—
A libel from some nameless den

Of Frankfort-Arnaud, a la Sphere,
Wherein one spilt, with venal pen,
Lies o'er the loves of Molière. 1
Another shade-he does not see
"Boney" the foeman of his race-
The great Sir Walter, this is he

With that grave homely Border face.
He claims his poem of the chase

That rang Benvoirlich's valley through;
And this, that doth the lineage trace

And fortunes of the bold Buccleuch ;2

For these were his, and these he gave

To one who dwelt beside the Peel,
That murmurs with its tiny wave
To join the Tweed at Ashestiel.
Now thick as motes the shadows, wheel,
And find their own, and claim a share
Of books wherein Ribou did deal,

Or Roulland sold to wise Colbert.3
What famous folk of old are here!

A royal duke comes down to us,
And greatly wants his Elzevir,

1'Histoire des Intrigues Amoureuses de Molière et de celles de sa femme. (A la Sphère.) A Francfort, chez Frédéric Arnaud, MDCXCVII.' This anonymous tract has actually been attributed, among others to Racine. The copy referred to is marked with a large N in red, with an eagle's head.

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His Pagan tutor, Lucius.4
And Beckford claims an amorous
Old Heathen in morocco blue;5
And who demands Eobanus

But stately Jacques Auguste de Thou! 6
They come, the wise, the great, the true,
They jostle on the narrow stair,

The frolic Countess de Verrue

Lamoignon, ay, and Longepierre, The new and elder dead are there

The lords of song, and speech, and pen.
Gambetta, Schlegel, and the rare
Drummond of haunted Hawthornden.

Ah, and with those, a hundred more,
Whose names, whose deeds, are quite forgot:
Brave 'Smiths' and 'Thompsons' by the score,
Scrawled upon many a shabby 'lot.'
This play book was the joy of Pott-:10
Pott for whom now no mortal grieves:
Our names, like his, remembered not,
Like his, shall flutter on fly-leaves!
At least in pleasant company

We bookish ghosts perchance may flit;
A man may turn a page and sigh,
Seeing one's name to think of it.
Beauty, or Poet, Sage, or Wit,

May ope our book and muse awhile,

And fall into a dreaming fit,

As now we dream, and wake, and smile! ANDREW LANG.

4 L. Annæ; Seneca Opera Omnia.' Lug. Bat., apud Elzevirios, 1649. With book-plate of the Duke of Sussex.

5 Stratonis

Epigrammata.'

Altenburgi, 1764. Straton bound up in one volume with Epictetus! From the Beckford Library.

6 Opera Helii Eobani Hessi.' Yellow morocco with the first arms of De Thou. Include a poem addressed "LANGE, decus meum." Quantity of penultimate "Eobanus" taken for granted, metri gratia.

7 La Journée du Chrétien.' Coutances, 1831. With inscription "Leon Gambetta. Rue St. Honoré.' Janvier,' 1848."

8 Villoison's 'Homer.' Venice, 1788. With Tessier's ticket and Schlegel's book-plate.

9. Les Essais de Michel.' Seigneur de Montaigne. "Pour François le Febvre de Lyon, 1695." With autograph of Gul. Drummond, and cipresso e palma.

10 The little old foxed Molière," once the property of William Pott, unknown to fame.

1A LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN BOOK CATALOGUES.
EDITED BY E. H. WOODRUFF, ASSISTANT IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
(The Library Journal.)

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1 This list necessarily does not include all the technical abbreviations which have been or may be used in describing the material condition of books; but it will show the meaning of the more usual abbreviations to be found in book catalogues,-especially in those issued by booksellers. It includes twice the number of abbreviaions published in the Library of the Cornell University,' vol. i., no. 1,1873, and has been compiled from that list, from lists given in Ottino's Manuale di bibliografia,' 1885, Cousin's 'De l'organisation et de l'administration des bibliothèques,' 1882, Rouveyre's Connaissances nécessaires à un bibliophile,' 3e éd., 1882, and from other ources, including catalogues themselves.

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