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. U. Bookmart Publishing Company, Pittsburg, Pa. W. S. A. Entered at the Post Office Pittsburg, Pa., as second class matter, Alden, John B., New York, Leary's Old Book Store,.... Phila. 75 Weber & Co., 80 Levi, Edward E.,.. Pittsburg, 77 .Pittsburg, 77 FOREIGN. ..... 79 Lowdermilk, W. H. & Co., Wash., 78 Amer, Richard, London, 76 78 Luyster, A. L., .New York, 79 Baer, J. & Co. Frankfort-on-Main, 77 77 Lyons, Will. H., Newport, Ky., 75 Blackwell, B. H.,. .. . . .Oxford, 17 New York, 79 Mac, E. A., New York, 79 Brown, William,.........Edinburgh, 76 New York, 19 McDonough, Joseph, New York, 79 Edwards, Francis ... ...London, 77 New York, 78 Merry, P. C., .... Washington, 78 Fawcett, H......... Milwaukee, iii Moss Engraving Co., New York, 79 Harrassowitz, Otto, ...Pittsburg. 77 Nash & Pierce,. New York, 78 Kerr & Richardson, . Chiniquy, Rev. C...Kankekee, Ill. 78 Price, C. J., Philadelphia, 78 Pearson. J. & Co., ...... Crawford, A. A., . ... St. Louis, 75 Rowell, Geo. P. & Co., New York, 79 Rimell, J. & Son, Crosby, F. Co., New York, 79 Sabin, J. F., . . . Chapman, T. J.. New York, 80 Robson & Kerslake, Dowling, Thomas, ..Washington, 75 Saunders, Walter W., London, 76 Leipzig, 72 Glasgow, 76 London, 76 London, 76 London, 74 London. 76 London, 75 London 78 Trenton, N. J. 77 Stevens, Henry & Son. ..London, 76 . Detroit, 77 Thin, James.. Washington, 78 Wildy & Sons, Edinburgh, 76 PUBLISHER'S NOTICE. Subscription Price of the BOOKMART $1.50 per year, for the United States and Canada: 7 shillings for Great Britain; 9 francs for France; 7 marks for Germany, and 9 lires for Italy. In answer to inquiries, would state that we can supply only a few complete sets of Volumes one, two and three, price Five Dollars. Volumes two and three we can supply at One Dollar and Fifty Cents per Volume. Subscription to the magazine not included in Advertising contracts. Books for Review-All literary communications should be sent to HALKETT LORD, Jersey City, N. J. THE BOOKMART. VOL. V. JULY, 1887. GHOSTS IN THE LIBRARY, To claim our spoils of shop and stall, How strange a mob would ineet and go, The great Napoleon lays his hand Of Frankfort-Arnaud, a la Sphere, With that grave homely Border face. That rang Benvoirlich's valley through; And fortunes of the bold Buccleuch ;2 For these were his, and these he gave To one who dwelt beside the Peel, Or Roulland sold to wise Colbert.3 A royal duke comes down to us, 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. Whole No. 50. His Pagan tutor, Lucius.4 But stately Jacques Auguste de Thou! 6 The frolic Countess de Verrue Lamoignon, ay, and Longepierre, The new and elder dead are there The lords of song, and speech, and pen. Ah, and with those, a hundred more, We bookish ghosts perchance may flit; 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. 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. |