Lamb, Charles, Index Expurgatorius of, 152 _note_.

Large-paper copies, aspirants after, 86.

Laurentian Library at Florence, 198.

Law books, composition of, 118.

Law maxims, absurd book on, 138 _note_.

Law papers as furnishing humorous reading, 135 _et seq._

Law technicalities, vagaries of, 136 _et seq._

Levant monks, apathy of, with reference to priceless books, 209.

Librarians recruited from the ranks of book-hunters, 227
--disadvantages of "Cerberus" librarians, 228 _et seq._
--Angelo Mai of the Vatican, 229
--Magliabecchi, _ib. et seq._
--Adrien Baillet, 230 et _seq._
--librarians as scholars, 231 _et seq._

Libraries as stimulants to intellectual culture, 115 _et seq._
--growth of great libraries, 169
--impossibility of their being improvised, _ib. et seq_.
--their gradual accumulation, 170 _et seq._
--Imperial Library at Paris, 176, 205, &c.
--size of American libraries, Harvard, Astorian, Library of Congress,
Boston Athenaeum, 176
--their large number in the States, _ib._
--The Private Libraries of New York, by James Wynne, M.D., 177
--specimen of a New York interior, 182
--library of Chancellor Kent, 184 _et seq._
--of Mr Lorimer Graham, 186
--of Rev. Dr Magoon, 187 _et seq._
--of Mr Menzies, 189 _note_
--Harvard Library, 190
--Government and public libraries, 191
--privileged libraries and the Copyright Act, 193 _note_
--British Museum Library, 197 _et seq._
--Ambrosian Library at Milan, 198
--Laurentian Library at Florence, _ib._
--Bodleian Library, _ib._
--Memoirs of Libraries, by Edward Edwards, 199 _note_
--Durham College Library, nucleus of Trinity of Oxford, 203
--burning of Alexandrian Library, 211.

Licensing, abolition of, in England, 208.

Limiting number of impressions, 281 _et seq._

Literary forgeries, moral code of, 303 _et seq._

Long Parliament, proceedings of, 328 _et seq._

Lucullus, Magnus, of Grand Priory, 46 _et seq._

Lycanthropy, 279.

Magi, in their conflicts with saints, 401 _et seq._

Magliabecchi, the librarian, 229 _et seq._

Magoon, Rev. Dr, library of, 187 _et seq._

Maitland Club, 312.

Margaret, Queen of Scotland, as a saint, 355.

Meadow, Archdeacon, description of as a mighty book-hunter, 14
--at an auction, 15
--a portion of his collection sold, 17
--reputed to