me
accurate and workmanlike, way in which they are cut, would mark them
indubitably as modern, even if the one did not bear the date of 1707,
and the other of 1711.

But the sun is dropping behind Ben Cruachan and the Jura hills. The time
of holiday reading and holiday rambling has come to its end; and a voice
calls the wanderer back to more sedate and methodical pursuits.

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INDEX.

Aberdeen laird, an, described by his wife, 10 _et seq._

Adams, Dr Francis, an eminent Greek scholar, 264 _et seq._

Adventures of Saints, 396, 397.

Advertisements, reading of, 156 _et seq._
--curious historical interest of, 160 _et seq._

Aidan and Columba, 383.

Ailbhe, St, and the cranes, 390.

Albania, a poem, reprinted by Leyden, 196.

Alexandrian Library, destruction of, by fire, 211.

Almanacs, as affording profitable reading, 155 _et seq._

Amateur book-hunters, 106 _et seq._

Ambrosian Library, the, at Milan, 198.

American collections dealing with early American history, 189 _et seq._

Americans duplicating old European Libraries, 174
--in relation to art and letters, _ib._
--combating for rarities, 175
--ransacking and anatomising private collections, 178.

Ancient literature, considerable amount of, lost, 324.

Angelo Mai of the Vatican, 229
--recovery by him of Institute of Gaius, 326.

Annotating of books a crime and a virtue, 185 _et seq._

Antiquarianism known as archaeology, 3.

Architecture, Church, of the early British Christians, 372.

Ardsnischen, Pastor of, buying a Greek New Testament, 60.

Armagh, Book of, 388 _et seq._

Assessed Taxes Department in relation to decay of libraries, 192.

Astor, John Jacob, the bequest of, 174.

Astorian Library, wealth of the, 176 _et seq._

Atticus as a dealer and capitalist publisher, 108 _note_.

Attorneys in Norwich, in Norfolk, and in Suffolk, 141 _et seq._

Auchinleck Press, account of, 294 _et seq._

Auctioneers: Carfrae, 60 _et seq._
--Evans, 93 _et seq._
--anecdote of a Cockney auctioneer, 178.

Auction-haunter different from prowler, 88 _et seq._

Authors and compositors, 77 _et seq._

Bacon commending brevity of old Scots Acts, 146.

Bailiff, the, and the writ, 136 _note_.

Baillet, Adrien, librarian and author of Jugemens des Savans, 230
_et seq._

Ballad fabricating, 306.

Bannaty