--Dibdin as its master, 280
--under the care of the scholarly Botfield, 281
--its proffer of membership to Sir Walter Scott, 283 _et seq._

Roxburghe, Duke of, as a book-hunter, 90, 164
--origin of his bibliomania, 90 _et seq._

Roxburghe Library, sale of, 89 _et seq._
--scenes at the auction, 92 _et seq._
--Earl Spencer present, 93 _et seq._

Rubricists, book-hunters as, 63.

Rule, Gilbert, ghost-story concerning, 346 _et seq._

"Runic Knot," the, 409.

Saints, the early Northern, 352 _et seq._
--the making of, 353
--festival days of, 354 _et seq._
--Bollandus and his successors on saints, 355 _et seq._
--value in history of saint literature, 358 _et seq._
--vestiges of the peculiar characteristics of early Northern saints,
371 _et seq._
--their church architecture, 372
--saints of Irish origin innumerable, 375
--independent of Rome, 381
--mostly all obscure, _ib. et seq._
--as prophesiers of death, 383
--personal habits of, 389
--fishing and marine anecdotes of, 395 _et seq._

Scholars in relation to collectors, 115 _et seq._

School-books, rarity of old, 215 _et seq._

Schoolboy life, reminiscences of, conjured up by an advertisement, 157
_et seq._

Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence, a curious book, 240.

Scots Acts, brevity of, 146.

Scott, Sir Walter, as a book-club man, 283
--his admission to the Roxburghe Club, _ib. et seq._
--writing a song for the Bannatyne Club, 285
--his reprint of a trial for murder, 290 _et seq._
--imposed on by Robert Surtees, 300 _et seq._
--first idea of Waverley suggested to him by Surtees, 306.

Sculptured stones in Scotland, 405 _et seq._
--description of one, 406
--their character, 407 _et seq._
--Mr John Stuart's transcripts of, 410
--ramble in search of, 411 _et seq._
--one of them at Lochcolissor, _ib._
--others in various parts, 412 _et seq._

Seneca commending literary moderation, 119 _note_.

Serf, St, and his robin, 392.

Shakespearian criticism a branch of knowledge, 69 _et seq._
--valuable to literature, 71.

Sheepfolds, Ruskin on the construction of, 125.

Sloane, Sir Hans, originator of British Museum Library, 197.

Smart, Fitzpatrick, as a mighty book-hunter, 19
--his peculiar line known as the "Fitzpatrick Smart Walk," 20
--his fancy ill to please, 21
--his