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Title: Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)

Author: Leslie Stephen

Release Date: January 27, 2007 [EBook #20459]

Language: English

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HOURS IN A LIBRARY

VOL. I.

HOURS IN A LIBRARY

BY

LESLIE STEPHEN

_NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS_

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1892

[_All rights reserved_]

CONTENTS

OF

THE FIRST VOLUME

PAGE
DE FOE'S NOVELS 1

RICHARDSON'S NOVELS 47

POPE AS A MORALIST 94

SIR WALTER SCOTT 137

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 169

BALZAC'S NOVELS 199

DE QUINCEY 237

SIR THOMAS BROWNE 269

JONATHAN EDWARDS 300

HORACE WALPOLE 345

_OPINIONS OF AUTHORS_

Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the
ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without
delusion