Without discussing the promises held out by Gersaint, as the perfect collector is, to our knowledge, rare, let us state that our book does not hope to urge any reader on to the perfection that ushers into Gersaint’s bliss, but if the brief glimpse we have given of Collectomania with its pleasures and dangers should convince some really passionate lover of art that collecting has a nobler aim than that of mere pleasure, if we should discourage a Tongilius or Paullus, or if this work should scare some modern Clarinus and do away with a noisy, useless up-to-date Trimalchus, we shall feel that the purpose of the book has been justified to some extent. INDEX. Adamo da Brescia, counterfeiter of coins, 67 _Adventures of a Bric-à-brac Hunter_, 144 Agar’s, Mme., collection of dolls, 291 Agesilas, 21 Aglæphon, 25 Agrippa as an art lover, 31 Alberti, 86 Alcohol as a solvent, 227 Alexander the Great, 37 Alluye, castle of, 92 Altar piece, Rothschild’s faked, 262 _Amateur marchand_, the, 117 Amber varnish, 228 Ambras collection, the, 87 American collector, the, 141 Andirons, story of the, 305 Andrea da Foiano, 79 Andrea del Sarto, 99 Andreoli, Maestro Giorgio, 250 Anne of Austria, 123 Anonimo Morelliano, the, 98 Antiquary, old and modern, the, 143, 153 Antique, passion for the, 71 Antiques, the collection of, in Italy, 82 Apelles, 20 Apollo and Marsyas, 94 Apollo, Sulla’s statue of, 36 Apollo, temple of, at Delphi, 23, 61 Apollo, the golden, 18 Aponius Saturninus, prætor, 29 Archæological suggestion, 160 Aretino, Pietro, 117 Aristotle, 18 Aristotle, bas-relief of, 91 Armour, faked, 269 Arms, the imitation of, 267 Art collecting, spread of, in Europe, 110 Art critic, the, 160 Art, influence of Greek and Roman, 83 Art in Rome, 20 Art museums in Rome, 61 Art sales, 128 Artist and erudite, 140 Artistic war booty, 21 Artists as connoisseurs, 288 Artists at Rome, status of, 20 Aspetti, Tiziano, 98 Athens, 18 _Atria auctionaria_, 28, 212 _Atrium_, the, 48 Atticus, 40 Auction room, atmosphere of the, 214 Augustus and Vedius Pollio, 52 Autographs, forged, 200, 298 Baldinucci, 225 Barberini, Cardinal, 118 Barbizet Brothers, 252 _Barguette_, la, 110 Barocco, the, 113 Bas-reliefs, bronze, 91, 235 Basant, 131 Basilini, 147 Bastianini, 182, 188 Belli, Valerio, 98, 100 Bellini, 100 Beniviene, Girolamo, Bastianini’s bust of, 183 Biblical subjects, 102 Bibliomaniacs, Roman, 50 _Biographie Universelle_ of M. Weiss, 115 Bisticci, V. da, 92 “Black Band,” the, 171, 180, 219 Boethus, 30 Boiss, Mme., 209 Bolides, faking, 300 Bonafedi, Signor, 185 Bonnaffé, Edmond, 108, 112, 149, 193