Produced by Thierry Alberto, Henry Craig and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected in | | this text. For a complete list, please see the bottom of | | this document. | | | +------------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * HOURS IN A LIBRARY VOL. I. HOURS IN A LIBRARY BY LESLIE STEPHEN _NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS_ IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1892 [_All rights reserved_] CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME PAGE DE FOE'S NOVELS 1 RICHARDSON'S NOVELS 47 POPE AS A MORALIST 94 SIR WALTER SCOTT 137 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 169 BALZAC'S NOVELS 199 DE QUINCEY 237 SIR THOMAS BROWNE 269 JONATHAN EDWARDS 300 HORACE WALPOLE 345 _OPINIONS OF AUTHORS_ Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.--BACON, _Advancement of Learning_. We visit at the shrine, drink in some measure of the inspiration, and cannot easily breathe in other air less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits.--HAZLITT'S _Plain Speaker_. What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labours to the Bodleian were reposing here as in some dormitory or middle state. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odour of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of the sciential apples which grew around the happy orchard.--CHARLES LAMB, _Oxford in the Long Vacation_.