household gods, 22
--his dress, 23
--his wonderful genius, 25
--fate of his collection, _ib._

Smithsonian Institution, origin of, 174.

Snuffy Davie, a prince of book-hunters, 166
--his capture of the Game of Chess, 222.

Societies, book and other, 247 _et seq._
--the transactions of learned, an outlet for genius, 262 _et seq._

Spalding Club, 312
--as an art-union, 404.

Spalding, John, value of his literary remains, 330 _et seq._
--quotation from his "Memorials," 333 _et seq._
--characteristics of his writings, 337.

Spencer, Earl, at the Roxburghe Library sale, 93 _et seq._
--his skirmish for the Caxtons, 123.

Spottiswoode Society, purpose of the, 247.

State trials replete with romance, 148.

Stated-task reader, the, 113.

Statute-making, pleasantry in, 143.

Stuart, Mr John, and the sculptured stones in Scotland, 410.

Superstitions, a book on, replete with errors in language, 153 _et seq._

Surtees Club, 312.

Surtees, Robert, the historian of Durham, as a book-club man, 298
--anecdotes of, _ib. et seq._
--imposing on Sir Walter Scott, 300 _et seq._
--his contributions to Scott's Minstrelsy, 304
--suggesting Waverley to Scott, 306.

Sydenham Club, 265.

Thomson, James, and his books, 29
--his uncle's criticism on "Winter," _ib._

Thomson, Rev. William, character of, 67 _et seq._
--his translation of Cunningham's Latin History of Britain, 68 _note_.

Title of an English Act, 145.

Title-page, a, no distinct intimation of contents of book, 124
--framing of exhaustive title-page, 126 _et seq._
--specimen of lengthy title-page, 127
--advantages of such, 128.

Toy literature, 216 _note._

Transactions of learned societies, 262.

Trinity Library, Oxford, origin of, 203.

Types of Guttenberg and Faust, beauty of, 218.

Types, MacEwen on the, its fate at an auction, 125.

Typographical blunders, 71 _et seq._

United States well stocked with libraries, 176
--its citizens as book-hunters, 177.

"Vampire" as a book-hunter, 55
--his collection, 56 _et seq._
--his policy at auctions, 57 _et seq._

Vellum books, 63.

Verney, Sir Ralph, noting proceedings of the Long Parliament,
328 _et seq._

Vision, a, of mighty book-hunters, 14 _et seq._

Vulgate of Sixtus V., multitude of errors in, 67.

Waltonian Library, the, of