ies that had ever been
developed in a court of justice. The defendant might have transported
the whole kit of them. But the _giving_ advice, and the _following_ it
when given, are two essentially different things. A THOUSAND GUINEAS
had been already expended on the part of Mr. Severne! When does my
Lord Brougham _really_ mean to reform the law? A recent publication
("Cranmer, a Novel") has said, "that he applies _sedatives_, when he
should have recourse to _operations_."

But the reader must now hurry with me into "The Auction Room." Of the
whole group there represented, full of life and of action, TWO ONLY
remain to talk of the conquests achieved![472] And Mr. Hamper,
too--whose note, at p. 117, is beyond all price--has been lately
"gathered to his fathers." "Ibimus, ibimus!" But for our book-heroes
in the Auction Room.

[Footnote 472: Before mention made of the Auction Room,
there is a long and particular account of the "_Lectionum
Memorabilium et Reconditarum Centenarii XVI._" by John Wolf,
in 1600, folio; with a fac simile, by myself, of the
portrait of the Author. It had a great effect, at the time,
in causing copies of this work to be sedulously sought for
and sold at extravagant prices. I have known a fine copy of
this ugly book bring L8 8_s._]

The first in years, as well as in celebrity, is LEPIDUS; the
representative of the late Rev. Dr. GOSSET. In the _Bibliographical
Decameron_, vol. iii. p. 5, ample mention is made of him; and here it
is, to me, an equally grateful and delightful task to record the
worth, as well as the existence, of his two sons, Isaac and Thomas,
each a minister of the Church of England. The former is covered with
_olive branches_ as well as with reputation; while the latter,
declining the "branches" in question, rests upon the stem of his own
inflexible worth, and solid scholastic attainments. Mrs. Gardiner, the
wife of a Major Gardiner, is the only daughter of Dr. Gosset; a wife,
but not a mother. The second in the ranks is MUSTAPHA. Every body
quickly found out the original in Mr. Gardiner, a bookseller in Pall
Mall; who quickly set about repelling the attack here made upon him,
by a long note appended to the article "Bibliomania," in one of his
catalogues. Gardiner never lacked courage; but, poor man! his brains
were under no controul. We _met_ after this reply, and, to the best of
my recollection, we exchanged ... _smiles_. The catalogue in