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Title: The Samuel Butler Collection
at Saint John's College Cambridge

Author: Henry Festing Jones

Release Date: November 20, 2007 [eBook #23558]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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Transcribed by from the 1921 W. Heffer & Sons edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

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THE SAMUEL BUTLER COLLECTION
AT SAINT JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

A Catalogue and a Commentary

BY
HENRY FESTING JONES
AND
A. T. BARTHOLOMEW

CAMBRIDGE
W. HEFFER & SONS LTD.
1921

It seems to me, the more I think of it, that the true life of anyone
is not the one they live in themselves, and of which they are
themselves conscious, but the life they live in the hearts of others.
Our bodies and brains are but the tools with which we work to make our
true life, which is not in the tool-box and tools we ignorantly
mistake for ourselves, but in the work we do with them; and this work,
if it be truly done, lives more in others than in ourselves.

S. BUTLER, 1895.

[THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO 750 COPIES]

Preface

The Butler Collection was not all given to St. John's at once. I sent up
some pictures and some books in 1917; and at intervals I have sent more,
always keeping a list of what has gone. Now that I have no more to send
seems the proper time for a Catalogue to be issued, and it is made from
the lists which I kept, and which were in part printed in _The Eagle_,
put in order by A. T. Bartholomew and annotated by myself. I am
responsible for the notes and am the person intended when "I" and "me"
occur. Bartholomew is responsible for the classification, for verifying,
for checking, and for the bibliographical part.

In time the collection will no doubt increase as new editions or
translations of Butler's books appear and as further books are published
referring to him. All such I intend to include in the collection; and I
hope that other Butlerians will see fit to make additions to