theses by, 64.

Diogenes, the so-called tub of, 120 _note_.

Directory of a city, the, as affording profitable reading, 155.

Douglas, Francis, anecdote told in his description of the east coast of
Scotland, 9 _note_.

"Dragon" as a book-hunter, _vide_ "Vampire."

Drunkenness of a former age, 11.

Duplicates, first buying of, 16
--most virulent form of bibliomania, 173.

Early Northern Saints, 352 _et seq._

Ecchellensis, Abraham, his controversy with Flavigny, 67.

Ecclesiastical architecture, 372 _et seq._

Ecclesiologist, the, as editor of book-club literature, 321.

Editions of the Classics, typographical blunders in, 68.

"Editio princeps," advantages of possessing an, 167
--of Boccaccio, 91.

Elzevir Caesar, Brunet's measurement of, 26
--origin of its rarity, 66.

Elzevirs, reason of their not being rare at present, 225.

Errors in the various editions of the Bible, 67 _et seq._

Evans, the auctioneer, 93.

Exchequer bill, curious specimen of, 134 _et seq._

Facsimiles, extensive manufacture of, 27.

Farmer, Dr Richard, and Johnson, 130 _et seq._

Feuerbach's German collection of _causes celebres_, 149.

Ferrier's Bibliomania, quotation from, 86 _note_.

Fires in libraries, 210 _et seq._

Fisher, Rev. John, Bishop of Rochester, originator of Library of
St John's, 204 _et seq._

Flavigny's controversy with Abraham Ecchellensis, 67.

Fountains, religious controversies connected with, 401 _et seq._

French _causes celebres_, 149 _et seq._

French novels, the morals of, 10.

Friends, Society of, greatest criminals found among, 8
--De Quincey's testimony to the same effect, _ib. et seq._

Furniture, old, 192.

Fustian, curious statute of Henry VII. concerning, 142 _et seq._

Game of Chess, by Caxton, captured in Holland by Snuffy Davie, 222.

Genealogist, a, as editor of book-club literature, 316 _et seq._
--his influence and genius, 318.

Genealogy, Scottish peculiarities in, 317
--extract on, from the Liber de Antiquis Legibus, 318.

Genius, rewards of, unequally distributed, 258.

Glasgow, the shield argent of, 393 _et seq._

Gleaner, the, and his harvest, 124 _et seq._

"Good reader," a, the bore of a house, 113.

Gordon, Sir Robert, collector of Gordonstoun Library, 97 _et seq._

Government and public libraries, 191.

Graham, Mr Lorimer, collec