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Title: In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays

Author: Augustine Birrell

Release Date: May 3, 2004 [EBook #12244]

Language: English

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IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN
AND OTHER ESSAYS

By

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL

HONORARY FELLOW OF TRINITY HALL, CAMBRIDGE

_'Peace be with the soul of that charitable and courteous author who
for the common benefit of his fellow-authors introduced the ingenious
way of miscellaneous writing.'_--LORD SHAFTESBURY.

LONDON

1906

AUTHOR'S NOTE

The first paper appeared in the _Outlook_, New York, the one on Mr.
Bradlaugh in the _Nineteenth Century_, and some of the others at
different times in the _Speaker_.

3, NEW SQUARE,
LINCOLN'S INN.

CONTENTS

I. 'IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN'
II. BOOKWORMS
III. CONFIRMED READERS
IV. FIRST EDITIONS
V. GOSSIP IN A LIBRARY
VI. LIBRARIANS AT PLAY
VII. LAWYERS AT PLAY
VIII. THE NON-JURORS
IX. LORD CHESTERFIELD
X. THE JOHNSONIAN LEGEND
XI. BOSWELL AS BIOGRAPHER
XII. OLD PLEASURE GARDENS
XIII. OLD BOOKSELLERS
XIV. A FEW WORDS ABOUT COPYRIGHT IN BOOKS
XV. HANNAH MORE ONCE MORE
XVI. ARTHUR YOUNG
XVII. THOMAS PAINE
XVIII. CHARLES BRADLAUGH
XIX. DISRAELI _EX RELATIONE_ SIR WILLIAM FRASER
XX. A CONNOISSEUR
XXI. OUR GREAT MIDDLE CLASS
XXII. TAR AND WHITEWASH
XXIII. ITINERARIES
XXIV. EPITAPHS
XXV. 'HANSARD'
XXVI. CONTEMPT OF COURT
XXVII. 5 EDWARD VII., CHAPTER 12

'IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN'

With what feelings, I wonder, ought one to approach in a famous
University an already venerable foundation, devoted by the last will
and indented