r be ever at your hand, and may your days be passed in
wholesome leisure, in the divine fellowship of books. _Vale._

THE END.

FOOTNOTES:

[82] Msr. F. C. Wieder, the librarian, writing to the 'Times Literary
Supplement' of 6th February 1919 (p. 70), states that 'the catalogue is
in preparation, and arrangements will be made that the books of this
library can be sent on loan to foreign students through the intermediary
of public libraries.'

[83] See note on p. 78.

[84] The moated manor-house (Southcote, near Reading) which he built
provides an excellent example of the way in which learned men (especially
mathematicians!) go astray when they insist upon being their own
architects. A more unhandy house it is difficult to conceive; and in
winter-time the dinner must invariably have been cold by the time it
reached the dining-room. The writer of these lines prospected it from
attics to cellars some years ago, but as usual "drew blank."

[85] Mr. E. Heron-Allen's 'De Fidiculis Bibliographia' was issued in
parts, and forms two small quarto volumes, 1890 and 1894; but only about
sixty complete sets are known to exist.

[86] Dodd's 'Essay towards a Natural History of the Herring,' 1752,
contains a chapter of bibliography.

[87] You will find the whole tale--a most interesting one--in
'Bibliographica,' vol. iii., p. 291, from the pen of Mr. Falconer Madan.

[88] Lord Lovat's definition of 'Sport' was as follows: 'Sport is the
fair, difficult, exciting, perhaps dangerous pursuit of a wild animal
that has the odds in its favour, whose courage, speed, strength and
cunning are more or less a match for our own, and whose death, being of
service, is justifiable.' But this seems to apply more to hunting than
anything else; it certainly precludes coaching, cock-fighting, racing,
and steeplechasing.

[89] The copy in the Pittar sale at Sotheby's in November 1918 was
extra-illustrated and finely bound. It fetched L9, 15s.

INDEX

_Achademios_, Skelton's, 11.
Aeschylus, translations of, 71.
Aesop, the _Fabulous Tales of_, 12.
_Aethiopica_, the, 86.
AFRICA, books on, 206, 209.
Agincourt Expedition, the, 50.
AGRICULTURE, books on, 238.
A Kempis, Thomas, 217.
Alaric's grave, 104.
ALCHEMY, books on, 245, 256.
Alfred, king, 101.
---- his tomb, 104.
Allibone's _Critical Dictionary_, 163.
AMERICANA, 210.
Ames' _Typographical Antiquities_, 7, 8, 169.