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19415How then did they bestow their books after they had become too numerous to be kept in the church?
19415In what way were these monastic libraries fitted up?
39087Will you state what improvement has been recently adopted in the New Transcript[ of the Catalogue] with regard to reference?
39087And who has more right to complain, the reader of the officers, or the officers of the reader?
39087Can any one say that to request readers to fill up such a form_ correctly_, and to comply with these rules, is giving unnecessary trouble?
39087If there had really been any doubt as to the work I required, why was not the question asked me, or_ both_ books brought?
39087The fact is, he was kept waiting one hour-- for during the first half hour he had got four other books-- and who can wonder at it?
30419Hampshire: Bibliotheca Hantoniensis, H.M. Gilbert, 1872?"
30419Is the librarian''s valuable time well occupied by looking after cheap copies of books?
30419Many special points arise for consideration when we deal with the question-- How to buy at sales?
30419The first publication was"What is an Index?"
30419What can be said of the libraries of the Duke of Roxburghe, Earl Spencer, Thomas Grenville, and Richard Heber that has not been said often before?
30419Why does he not burn half?
30419Will not such action prevent the publication of excellent books on subjects little likely to be popular?
30419and can he want to keep them all?"
30419why, how can he so encumber himself?
5198But what strange art, what magic can dispose The troubled mind to change its native woes?
5198But who are these?
5198Is it then right to dream the syrens sing?
5198Or lead us willing from ourselves, to see Others more wretched, more undone than we?
5198Or mount enraptured on the dragon''s wing?
5198Say, doth thy lord my Claribel withhold?
5198Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm''d to bear?
5198Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life''s little cares and little pains refuse?
5198What art so prevalent, what proof so strong, That will convince him his attempt is wrong?
5198What thought so wild, what airy dream so light, That will not prompt a theorist to write?
5198Where fade away and placidly expire?
5198With Fiction then does real joy reside, And is our reason the delusive guide?
5198magic verse inscribed on golden gate, And bloody hand that beckons on to fate:-"And who art thou, thou little page, unfold?
5198when will both in friendly beams unite, And pour on erring man resistless light?
52627''And do you know what they are?'' 52627 ''Did you ever look at the stars?''
52627Whither went all the tourists and pedlars with strange wares? 52627 And how is this to be done if genius and talent are allowed to die unborn for lack of opportunity to grow? 52627 As recently as 1889 the writer of an article in the_ North American Review_ labeled his attack:Are public libraries public blessings?"
52627But you would not have me die and not see all that is to be seen, and do all that a man can do, let it be good or evil?
52627How many librarians nowadays have such a hope?
52627It is some forty years since Carlyle asked the question,"Why is there not a Majesty''s library in every county town?
52627Meeting an old woman one stormy day, he resorted to the usual topic of greeting:"Dreadful weather, is n''t it?"
52627What are the facts?
52627What, indeed, would be the good of teaching people to read at all unless they were also to have a supply of good books?
52627Wherefore this emphasis upon the school side of library work?
52627Whither all the brisk barouches with servants in the dicky?
52627Whither the water of the stream, ever coursing downward and ever renewed from above?
52627Who killed it?
52627Would the critics prefer to have the children glue their faces to the glass in the vulgar and suggestive shows of the penny arcade?
52627You would not have me spend all my days between this road here and the river, and not so much as make a motion to be up and live my life?
52627and how long would it take to do the like for prose?
52627said Will,''if there are thousands who would like, why should not one of them have my place?''
26378America?
26378Faustini fugis in sinum?
26378Further, how were private students bestowed in the fifteenth century, when a love of letters had become general?
26378How were the libraries mentioned in the preceding chapter fitted up?
26378How, I shall be asked, can the form of the bookcase or desk(_ pulpitum_) be inferred from this catalogue?
26378I will quote the lines on S. Augustine: Mentitur qui[ te] totum legisse fatetur: An quis cuneta tua lector habere potest?
26378Quo innumerabiles libros et bibliothecas quarum dominus vix tota vita indices perlegit?
26378They lie who to have read thee through profess; Could any reader all thy works possess?
26378Was this library ever chained?
26378We must next consider the answer to the following questions: In what part of their Houses did the Monastic Orders bestow their books?
26378What is my friend Celsus about?
26378What is the use of books and libraries innumerable, if scarce in a lifetime the master reads the titles?
26378What was the use of these shelves?
26378[ 134] Cantor almaria puerorum juvenum et alia in quibus libri conventus reponentur innovabit fracta præparabit[ reparabit?]
26378[ 385] Habuit ultimo ducatos octo pro tribus tabulis ex nuce cornisate(?)
26378and what pieces of furniture did they use?
7096And never again rise up to all eternity?
7096How is it possible for me to keep silence about it? 7096 How then, Gilgamish, wilt thou be able to cross the sea?
7096My heart sad, my form dejected?
7096The hero Shamash( the Sun- god) hath indeed crossed the sea, but who besides him could do so? 7096 Thou starest out blankly(?)
7096What is the description thereof? 7096 What kind of a being hath escaped with his life?
7096When thou arrivest at the Waters of Death what wilt thou do?
7096Why are thy cheeks wasted? 7096 Why is there lamentation in thy heart?"
7096[ O] Sabîtu, which is the way to Uta- Napishtim? 7096 ... the prince(?) 7096 And said unto the warrior Enlil( Bêl): 178. Who besides the god Ea can make a plan? 7096 Anu created the fire- breathing(?) 7096 As he went about he thought to himself,I myself shall die, and shall not I then be as Enkidu?
7096But what shall I say to the town, to the multitude, and to the elders?"
7096Having asked the Deity, whither he was to sail?
7096He says,"What lover didst thou love for long?
7096How couldst thou, not accepting counsel, make a cyclone?
7096How is it possible for me to cry out[ the story of] it?
7096How then wast thou able to enter the company of the gods and see life?"
7096I covered(?)
7096I measured out the hull thereof and marked it out(?)
7096That they might fill the sea like little fishes?"
7096Under them I piled reeds, cedarwood and myrtle(?).
7096When Gilgamish asked:"Who is splendid among men?
7096Which of thy shepherds flourished?
7096Who is glorious among heroes?"
21630And that Rome is no where less known and less loved than at Rome?
21630And was not justice satisfied?
21630And who reaped so laboriously or gleaned so carefully as those two illustrious scholars?
21630Besides who is to pacify the churches of Britain, if St. Cuthbert can not defend them with so great a number of saints?
21630But we will not denounce them here, for did not the day of retribution come?
21630But what will he say to the fine Bibles that crown and adorn the list?
21630But, careful as they were, what would these monks have thought of"paper- sparing Pope,"who wrote his Iliad on small pieces of refuse paper?
21630For had he not shown his love to God by his munificence to His Church on earth?
21630Moreover as to the simple question-- Were the monks booklovers?
21630Or bend to him with any obedience?
21630Sharon Turner thus renders a portion of Satan''s speech from the Saxon of Cædmon:"Yet why should I sue for his grace?
21630What good could come of them?
21630What good purpose then will it serve to cavil at the monks forever?
21630Where is the Christian who will not rejoice that the Gospel of Christ was read and loved in the turbulent days of the Norman monarchs?
21630Where is the philosopher who will affirm that we owe nothing to this silent but effectual and fervent study?
21630Where is the reader who will not regard these instances of Bible reading with pleasure?
21630Who this simple layman, whose ignorance rendered him an unfit_ socius_ for the plodding monks of old St. Albans Abbey?
21630Who will say after this that the monks were ignorant of the sciences and careless of the arts?
21630[ 397] And who was this poor, humble, unlettered clerk?
21630and does not the reader behold in it the very type and personification of its existence now?
21630does he not see in Richard de Bury the prototype of a much honored and agreeable bibliophile of our own time?
21630spare thy people, and take not thine inheritance from them;''nor let the Pagans say,''Where is the God of the Christians?''
17624And the_ Catullus_,_ Tibullus_, and_ Propertius_?
17624And the_ Prudentius_--good M. Hartenschneider-- do you possess it?
17624But have you no old paintings, Mr. Vice Principal-- no Burgmairs, Cranachs, or Albert Durers?
17624But is it_ too late_ to erect his statue? 17624 But our Shakspeare and Milton, Sir-- what think you of these?"
17624But tell me, worthy and learned Sir,( continued I) why so particular about the_ Statius_? 17624 But where( replied I) is the_ statue_ of this heroic collector, to whom your library is probably indebted for its choicest treasures?
17624But you have doubtless_ dined_?
17624Could the Professor facilitate that object?
17624Do you observe, here, gentlemen?
17624Do you then overlook the_ Danube_?
17624If_ these_ delight you so much, what would you say to our_ professors_?
17624Might I have a copy of it-- for the purpose of getting it engraved?
17624Observe yonder--continued the Abbot--"do you notice an old castle in the distance, to the left, situated almost upon the very banks of the Danube?"
17624Placetne tibi, Domine, sermone latino uti?
17624What is the matter, Sir, am I likely to be intrusive?
17624What, BUT the edifice which contains THE PUBLIC LIBRARY?
17624Where are your_ Aldine Greek Hours_ of 1497?
17624Wherefore was this?
17624Which be they?
17624Who might this be?
17624Would I allow him to engrave it?
17624Would any sum induce you to part with it?
17624_ Bibliothecam hujusce Monasterii valdè videre cupio-- licetne Domine? 17624 ( Upon whom, NOW, shall this task devolve?!) 17624 ( exclaimed the professor-- for M. Le Bret is a Professor of belles- lettres),I observe that you are perfectly enchanted with what is before you?"
17624Among the female figures, what think you of MARY MAGDALENE-- as here represented?
17624And where will you find female penance put to a severer trial?
17624Below the colophon, in pencil, there is a date of 1475: but quære upon what authority?
17624Bernhard?"
17624But what has an honest man to fear?
17624But what then?
17624But why do I talk of monastic delights only in_ contemplation_?
17624But you will doubtless take the_ Monastery of Göttwic_ in your way?"
17624Can not he displace one of these nameless marshals, who are in attitude as if practising the third step of the_ Minuet de la Cour_?"
17624Do you forbid the importation of an old Greek manual of devotion?"
17624He ought to have a splendid monument( if he have it not already?)
17624He said--"where will you find truth unmixed with fiction?"
17624He talked French readily, and we all four commenced a very interesting conversation,"Did any books ever travel out of this library?"
17624Here are twenty golden pieces:"( they were the napoleons, taken from the forementioned silken purse[91])--"will these procure the copy in question?"
17624I asked him, why?
17624I asked my sable attendant, if this book could be parted with-- either for money, or in exchange for other books?
17624In a word, allegory, always bad in itself, should not be_ mixed_; and we naturally ask what business lions and human beings have together?
17624Is he alive?
17624Is it thus, thought I to myself, that"they order things in"Germany?
17624Is one word further necessary to say that a finer copy, upon paper, can not exist?
17624It must be an exquisite production; for if the_ plaster_ be thus interesting what must be the effect of the_ marble_?
17624Le Bibliographe?"
17624N''est- ce- pas possible que vous passiez par Munich à votre retour de Vienne?
17624Need I again remark, that this country was enchantingly fine?
17624Silence ensuing, we were asked how we liked the church, the organ, and the organist?
17624Tell me, who are these marshals that seem to have no business in such a sanctuary of the Muses-- while I look in vain for the illustrious Eugene?"
17624The roof, which is of an unusual height, is supported by pillars in imitation of polished marble... but why are they not marble_ itself_?
17624To another question--"which of Shakspeare''s plays pleased him most?"
17624What might not the pencils of Turner and Calcott here accomplish, during the mellow lights and golden tints of autumn?
17624What might this be?
17624What shall we say?
17624Why should not the book have been printed in Bohemia?
17624Will you allow me to propose a fair good copy of that admirable performance, in exchange for your Statius?"
17624Will you believe it-- I have not visited, nor shall I have an opportunity of visiting, the_ Interior_?
17624Would you believe it?
17624You would not like to tumble down from hence?"
17624[ 38] What think you of undoubted proofs of STEREOTYPE PRINTING in the middle of the sixteenth century?
17624[ 4] And what should be the_ object_ of this courtly visit?
17624and PRINTED BOOKS?
17624said the guide-- pointing to the coping of the parapet wall, where the stone is a little rubbed,"I do"--(replied I)"What may this mean?"
16224But you are doubtless acquainted, Sir, with the COMTE DE LA FRESNAYE, who resides in yonder large mansion?
16224Have you many English who visit this spot?
16224How so?
16224In respect to the_ sacrament_, what is the proportion between the communicants, as to sex?
16224It seems you are very fond of old books, and especially of those in the French and Latin languages?
16224Vois- tu comme ces fleurs languissent tristement?
16224Vous n''avez rien comme ca chez vous?
16224What are you about, there?
16224What is that irregular rude mound, or wall of earth, in the centre of which children are playing?
16224What is that?
16224What might this mean?
16224What( says M. Licquet) will quickly be the result, with us, of such indiscretions as those of which M. Dibdin is guilty? 16224 What-- you confess here pretty much?"
16224Yes,( resumed I) tell me what you are about there?
16224You are from London, then, Sir?
16224You were yesterday evening at Monsieur Pluquet''s, purchasing books?
16224Your daughter Sir, is not married?
16224Your name, Sir, is D----?
16224( say you:)"not_ one_ single specimen from the library of your favourite DIANE DE POICTIERS?
16224--"Comment ça?"
162241690,( 1679?)
16224And if you take river scenery into the account, what is the_ Seine_, in the neighbourhood of Paris, compared with the_ Thames_ in that of London?
16224At length, turning a corner, a group of country people appeared--"Est- ce ici la route de Tancarville?"
16224Before dawn of day I heard incessant juvenile voices beneath the window of my bedroom at the Grand Turc; What might this mean?
16224But do you know no one...?"
16224But tell me, Sir, how can I obtain a sight of the CHAPTER LIBRARY, and of the famous TAPESTRY?"
16224But the sun was beginning to cast his shadows broader and broader, and where was the residence of Monsieur and Madame S----?
16224But, would you believe it?
16224Can this be possible?"
16224Can you possibly advise and assist me upon the subject?"
16224Chalon?)
16224Coutances?)
16224Dare I venture to say it was the_ cowhouse_?
16224Dibdin, Ministre de la Religion,& c._"Avec un ris moqueur, je crois vous voir d''ici, Dédaigneusement dire: Eh, que veut celui- ci?
16224Did I tell you that this sort of ornament was to be seen in some parts of the eastern end of the Abbey of Jumieges?
16224Do you remember the emphatic phrase in my last,"all about the duel?"
16224En feignant d''ignorer ce tendre sentiment;"Pourquoi,"lui dis- je,"ô ma sensible amie, Pourquoi verser des pleurs?
16224Et comment s''étonneroit- on Si tant de fléaux nous tourmentent?
16224Et quand l''avez- vous battue?
16224Has the author passed a bad night?
16224How shall I convey to you a summary, and yet a satisfactory, description of it?
16224I exclaimed--"Ha, is it you Sir?"
16224I was well contented with coffee, tea, eggs, and bread-- as who might not well be?...
16224In the mean while, why is GALLIC ART inert?
16224Is it not a pretty thing, Sir?"
16224Is it possible that one spark of devotion can be kindled by the contemplation of an object so grotesque and so absurd in the House of God?
16224It is surely the oddest, and as some may think, the most repulsive scene imaginable: But who that has a rational curiosity could resist such a walk?
16224J''ai vu en beaucoup d''endroits de votre Lettre, que vous avez voulu imiter_ Sterne_;[4] qu''est- il arrivé?
16224Je ne la peux faire lever le matin: Je l''appelle cent fois:_ Marguerite: plait- il ma Mere?
16224Licquet; but what is a cow- house but"an_ outer building_ attached to the Abbey?"
16224May I give him your name?"
16224Ne voulez vous pas me répondre; en un mot, combien y a- t- il de temps que vous ne vous êtes confessée?
16224On pointing to_ Houbigant''s Hebrew Bible_, in four folio volumes, 1753,"do you think this copy dear at fourteen francs?"
16224On the other hand, has he had a good night''s rest in a comfortable bed?
16224Ose- t- on ravaler un Ministre à ce point?
16224Pensez- vous done, ou Charles Lewis pense- t- il, qu''il n''y ait plus d''esprit national en France?
16224Qu''ai- je donc de commun avec un vil artiste?
16224Que me veut ce_ Lesné_?
16224Que voulez vous?"
16224Savez- vous bien, Monsieur, pourquoi je vous écris?
16224Scarcely fifteen people were present, I approached the bench; and what, think you, were the intellectual objects upon which my eye alighted?
16224Still tarrying within this old fashioned place?
16224The porter observed that they had just sat down to dinner-- but would I call at three?
16224The woman said,"What, if you never return?"
16224These be sharp words:[11] but what does the Reader imagine may be the probable"result"of the English Traveller''s inadvertencies?...
16224Un ouvrier français, un_ Bibliopégiste_?
16224What a difference between the respective appearances of the quays of Dieppe and Havre?
16224What earthly motive could have led to such a brutal act of demolition?]
16224What he adds, shall be given in his own pithy expression.--"Où la coquetterie va- t- elle se nicher?"
16224What is meant to be here conveyed?
16224What lovely vicinities are these compared with that of_ Mont Martre_?
16224What say you therefore to a stroll to the ABBEY of ST. OUEN?
16224What then, is the Abbé de la Rue in error?
16224What was to be done?
16224Where was the attendant guard?--or pursuivants-- or men at arms?
16224Where was the harp of the minstrel?
16224Where was the warder?
16224Wherefore was this?
16224Who in France would dare to risk such a sum-- especially for three, volumes in octavo?
16224Why is it endured?
16224Why is it persevered in?
16224Would not the_ Debure_ Vocabulary have said"non rogné?"]
16224[ 47] How long will this monument--(matchless of its kind)--continue unrepresented by the BURIN?
16224[ Has my friend Mr. Hawkins, of the Museum, abandoned all thoughts of his magnificent project connected with such a NATIONAL WORK?]
16224[ dans un lit_ comfortable_?]
16224_ Saint Joseph_, que vous ai- je fait?
16224et par quel changement Abandonner ton ame à la melancholie?"
16224said he!--"How, Sir,"( replied I, in an exstacy of astonishment)--you mean to say fourteen_ louis_?"
16224the baseness of John of Luxembourg, or the treachery of the Regent Bedford?
16224who, by his strength, policy and wit kept them all out of the principal dominions of France, and out of this noble duchy of Normandy?
17107!--as if every reader of common sense would not have given_ me_, rather than the_ Abbé Bétencourt_, credit for this bad speaking?
17107Are the old and more curious books deposited here?
17107But see, Sir,( continued he) is not this curious?
17107Could Monsieur refuse this trifling payment?
17107Had he any thing old and curious?
17107Have you no curiosities of any kind--(said I to him) for sale?
17107Is it possible to obtain a copy of this picture?
17107Is it the top of the spire of Strasbourg Cathedral?
17107Is the Son at home?
17107Now that I am in this magical region, my good friend, allow me to inspect the famous PRAYER BOOK of CHARLEMAGNE?
17107Vous le connoissez parfaitement bien, sans doute?
17107Was the date legitimate?
17107What is that?
17107What is the subject to be?
17107What might have been the charge per sheet?
17107What might it have been?
17107What might that be?
17107What might that be?
17107What might this mean?
17107What want you there?
17107Where is the original?
17107Again-- if you convert them to_ other_ purposes of destruction, how can you hope to prevent the same example from being followed in other places?
17107And do not mental affliction and bodily debility generally go together?
17107And now, my good friend, suppose I furnish you with an outline of the worthy head- librarian himself?
17107And to have it engraved there?"
17107And wherefore?
17107And who, think you, should that stranger turn out to be?
17107And why is it thus?
17107And yet it may be doubted whether the latter were absolutely printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz for their_ first_ edition?
17107And yet, when will nations learn that few things tend so strongly to keep alive a pure spirit of PATRIOTISM as_ such_ a study or pursuit?
17107And yet, where have I spoken ungraciously and uncourteously of Madame?]
17107Are you thoroughly awake, and disenchanted from the magic which the contents of the preceding letter may have probably thrown around you?
17107At least he must have a_ missal_ or two?"
17107Barbier?"
17107But I think I hear the wish escape him-- as he casts an attentive eye over the whole--"why do they not imitate us in a publication relating to them?
17107But what do I see yonder?
17107But what then?
17107But"where are my favourite ECCLESIASTICAL EDIFICES?"
17107But, what do you think supplied its place during the late Revolution, or in the year of our Lord 1794, on the 4th day of May?
17107But, you may be disposed to add,"has this celebrated man no collection of Books?--no LIBRARY?
17107Can it be so?
17107Can such an union, therefore, be quite correct?
17107Can there be the smallest shadow of doubt about the truth of the above assertion?
17107Can this be in nature?
17107Certainly the whole book has very much the air of a_ Copy_: and besides, would not the originals have been upon separate rolls of parchment?
17107Could they not be placed in the chapel of St. Lawrence, or of St. Catharine, in the cathedral?
17107Crapelet.?]
17107Did the_ remaining_ volumes ever so exist?
17107Did you ever, my dear friend, approach a fortified town by the doubtful light of a clouded moon, towards eleven of the clock?
17107Do you ask this question?
17107Does any perfect copy, of this kind, exist?
17107Et votre grand capitaine, le DUC DE VELLINGTON, comment se porte il?
17107Every now and then Louis turned round, and said to Bignon,"Bignon, have I got that book in my library?"
17107Geneviève among the spectators.. and turning to his prime minister, exclaimed"Choiseul, how can one distinguish the_ true_ Bible of Sixtus V.?"
17107I have lived fifty- nine years, the happiest of men-- and should I not be ungrateful towards Providence, if I complained of its decrees?!"
17107I put it to the conscience of the most sober- minded observer of men and things-- if any earthly object can be more orthodox and legitimate?
17107If you set fire to them, can you say how far the flames shall extend?
17107In its original binding, with the ornaments tolerably entire:--and what binding should this be, but that of Henry the Second and Diane de Poictiers?
17107Is it because some few hundred thousand_ printed volumes_ are deposited therein?
17107Is there any representation of him, in the same situation, upon his_ return_?
17107It is of the size of life; but surely a statue of_ Minerva_ would have been a little more appropriate?
17107James''s Place_?
17107Langlès?"
17107Le Comte... comment vont les affaires en Angleterre?
17107Most true-- and who has said that HE DOES?
17107Next to Pascal is a prodigiously fine oval portrait( is it of_ Fontaine_?)
17107Or rather, speaking more correctly, why are not the_ Marlborough Gems_ considered as an object of rivalry, by the curators of this exquisite cabinet?
17107Ought not M. Crapelet to have said"il mourrira?"
17107Possibly I might wish to possess them?"
17107Quære tamen?
17107Renouard, in consequence, venture upon the transportation of the_ remaining_ portion of his Library hither?
17107Shall I tell you wherefore?
17107The arms of_ Graville_( Grauille?)
17107The attendant sees your misery, and approaches:"Que desirez vous, Monsieur?"
17107The other day, when dining with some smart, lively, young Parisians, I was compelled to defend RAFFAELLE against David?
17107The present is a sound, clean, and desirable copy: but why in such gay, red morocco, binding?
17107The question therefore, was, after a good deal of pertinacious argument on both sides-- which of the two impressions was the MORE ANCIENT?
17107Was it_ originally_ more_ piquan?_ I have reason not only to suspect, but to know, that it WAS.
17107Was this object necessary to tell the tale?--or, rather, did not the sculptor deem it necessary to_ balance_( as is called) the figure?
17107What is this singular portrait, which strikes one to the left, on entering?
17107What may this mean?
17107What must repeated glimpses have produced?
17107What say you to this, Messrs. Lesné and Crapelet?
17107What then?
17107What therefore is to be done?
17107What think you, among these"choice copies,"of the_ Cancionero Generale_ printed at Toledo in 1527, in the black letter, double columned, in folio?
17107Who could say"nay?"
17107Who is its fortunate Possessor?]
17107Why do they not put forth something similar to what we have done for our_ Museum Marbles_?
17107Why does he not visit us?
17107Will the reader object to disporting himself with some REMBRANDTIANA, in the_ Bibliomania_ p. 680- 2.?
17107Would I do him the favour of a visit?
17107Would you believe it-- here are absolutely TWO copies of this glorious effort of the Aldine Press, printed UPON VELLUM!?
17107Would you believe it-- nearly one half of the illumination, at top, has been sliced away?
17107Would you believe it?
17107Yet why do I find it in my heart to tell you that, towards the middle, many leaves are stained at the top of the right margin?!
17107You enquire"whether Monsieur BARBIER, the chief Librarian, be within?"
17107[ 149]["Would one not suppose that I had told M. Dibdin that it was impossible for the French to execute as fine plates as the English?
17107[ 150] What then remains, in the book way, worthy of especial notice?
17107[ 172]"What,( said its owner,) must you have an engraving of_ that_ head also?
17107[ 75] Suppose, now, I throw in a little variety from the preceding, by the mention of a rare_ Italian_ book or two?
17107[ Can I ever forget, or think slightly of, such kindness?
13430Are you following a programme of reading?
13430But where did you find the name?
13430Can you give me the name of the person or committee who made it?
13430Could you not bear with him for one hour? 13430 Do you mean the country of that name?
13430Do you mean to tell me,my friend goes on,"that you would carry your company to Spain whenever the scene of their play is laid in that country?
13430Do you mean travels in America, or travels by Americans in foreign countries?
13430Do you want books like Dickens''s_ American Notes_, that give a foreigner''s impression of this country?
13430Have you any material on the Medici?
13430Have you anything on American travels?
13430Have you some ideas about the subject you want to take up?
13430How do you demonstrate all this?
13430May I see it? 13430 May I see that book again?"
13430Or books like Hawthorne''s_ Note Book_, telling how a foreign country appears to an American?
13430Sha n''t I get you something more now?
13430What did your big brother ask you to get?
13430What would you have?
13430Which did you finally take?
13430Why do n''t they do something?
13430Why flood?
13430Why war?
13430Why,asks Poincarà ©,"do certain degrees of freedom appear to play no part here; why are they, so to speak,''ankylosed''?"
13430Yes; just what kind of material do you want?
13430You are not going to read that, are you?
13430(_ The Critic_, July, 1901, p. 67- 70) WHAT MAKES PEOPLE READ?
13430And how is he to know whether other interesting and well- written histories and books of travel have not been similarly proved inaccurate?
13430And it did-- whether nicely or not deponent saith not?
13430And more than all else, may we not hope that these new backgrounds may react on the players who perform their parts in front of them?
13430And now what does this all mean?
13430And when this story has been told in despair to some very intelligent persons they have commented:"Well, there is n''t much more, is there?"
13430Are books fitted to be our companions?
13430Are grammar school graduates difficult to get, or high- priced?
13430Are not these real benefits, and are they not desirable?
13430Are there, then, no disseminators of ideas free from interference?
13430Are they right?
13430Are we straying from our subject?
13430Are we to affirm that arithmetic is only for the born mathematician and Latin for the born linguist, and endeavor to ascertain who these may be?
13430Are you afraid that he will form it wrong?
13430Are you broader- minded or just hardened?
13430Are you quite sure?
13430Are your beliefs all based on mathematical certainties?
13430Between a certainty and a fifty per cent chance, or less?
13430But a question that is still more fundamental and quite as vital is: Do readers read at all?
13430But have not librarians shared somewhat this mistaken and intolerant attitude?
13430But how about the man whose first selection for this intimate personal group would be a complete set of the works of George Ade?
13430But we may ask in turn"Why fire?"
13430But what prevents either from having the six degrees to which ordinary mechanical theory entitles it?
13430But what-- what in heaven''s name shall we do with the deluge when it comes?
13430But why should we limit our efforts to the holiday season?
13430CONTENTS DO READERS READ?
13430Can these be completely accounted for by the mutual attractions of the bodies, according to the law of gravitation as enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton?
13430Can we blame them, when we make the same mistake ourselves?
13430Could it be expected that reading done in connection with such a performance should be valuable?
13430Could there be two things more radically different than despotism and democracy?--the rule of the one and the rule of the many?
13430Could we or should we abandon either?
13430Did some one guide you to them or did you find them yourselves?
13430Did you ever see a car- conductor fumbling about in the dark with the trolley pole, trying to hit the wire?
13430Did you ever see a chemistry that gave, or tried to give, an idea of the world of chemical knowledge that environs its board cover?
13430Do I think that everyone in a movie audience makes use of his privilege to imagine what the actors are saying?
13430Do the readers of library books in New York shun the public- press, or do they pay scant heed to what they read therein?
13430Do those of you who are musicians remember when you first apprehended the relations between the tonic and the dominant chords?
13430Does he any the less say"White"?
13430Does it require us to call wrong right and black white?
13430Does the absorber of mental pabulum from books argue wrongly from similar premises?
13430Does the reading public read because it has a literary taste or for some other reason?
13430Does the young lover ask how and how often he shall go to see his sweetheart?
13430Does this mean that the book, as a tool of the teacher, will have to go?
13430Does this mean that when our country makes an error we are to shut our eyes to it?
13430Does this not place in a new and interesting light the library and the books of which it is composed?
13430Does your public library get enough public money to enable it to do the work that it ought to do?
13430Efficient for what?
13430First, what is belief?
13430Has that chemical constitution changed?
13430Has the public a definite idea of what it wants from the public library, and of what is reasonable for it to ask?
13430Have I wandered too far from my theme?
13430How about education?
13430How about the board of trustees who have accepted such a situation without protest?
13430How about the city authorities who have failed to vote the library adequate support?
13430How about the dissatisfied?
13430How about the other factor in the reaction-- the human organism and its properties?
13430How do these considerations affect the subject of general education?
13430How is the future reader of Dr. Cook''s interesting account of the ascent of Mount McKinley to know that it has been discredited?
13430How long is it to remain thus?
13430How many meaty epigrams would take as long?
13430How many teachers of history try to utilize race- consciousness in their pupils to make them attain a clearer knowledge of what it all meant?
13430How much original thought, how much discovery, how much invention, how much inspiration, is put into their writing and emanates from their reading?
13430How often do we give them information and aid directed toward this end?
13430How often do we urge our readers to become book- owners?
13430How should it be selected and how constituted?
13430I ask the bakery lady to my reference and I sing my neam"[ sign my name?].
13430I have heard a tiny boy, looking up suddenly from his play, ask"Why do we live?"
13430I should inquire,"What is there in it for other people?"
13430INDEX A LIBRARIAN''S OPEN SHELF ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS DO READERS READ?
13430If he claims descent from Pocahontas, can he tell us just how much of what we currently believe of her is fact and how much is myth?
13430If massage has relieved rheumatism, why should it not be good also for typhoid?
13430If so, is it satisfied that it is represented by a board that is of the same mind?
13430In Newcomb''s words,"Does any world move otherwise than as it is attracted by other worlds?"
13430Instead of asking the question,"What is there in it for me?"
13430Is it because you then saw through a glass darkly and now more clearly?
13430Is it necessary to burn down a house every time we want to roast a pig?
13430Is it possible that they are right?
13430Is it too much to expect?
13430Is my knowledge"superficial"?
13430Is not this the right way to look at it?
13430Is our publicity failing in quantity or in quality?
13430Is something right or wrong?
13430Is something true or false?
13430Is the awakening of such a realization too much for us?
13430Is there any chance of a movie masterpiece, anyway?
13430Is this a truism?
13430It is a producer of energy in easily available form, and, thinking on some such novels as"Uncle Tom,""Die Waffen nieder"and shall we say"The jungle"?
13430It might all fade, at length; we all know that many good teachings of our childhood do vanish; why should not the bad ones occasionally follow suit?
13430May it be that to read books is unnecessary and superfluous?
13430May we have a center for so wide a range of activities?
13430Must we wait for the horrors of a great war to teach us geography, industrial chemistry and international law?
13430Now is the possession of two languages, a spoken and a written, an advantage or not?
13430Now, our income actually is about$ 250,000, but how could I tell him that?
13430Of ten promoters, if nine proceeded on this principle and one on the plan of offering something attractive and interesting, who would succeed?
13430One is educated, of course, by everything that he sees or does, but why rub it in?
13430Or is he primarily attracted to the library by some other consideration, his love for books and reading acting only in a secondary manner?
13430Or is your vision darker now than it was?
13430Or rather shall we find that it is but apparent and hides a series of continuous processes?...
13430Our question,"Do readers read?"
13430Poetry, to you and me, is what we make of it; and what do you suppose our friend from Oregon was making of Chaucer?
13430Shall I traverse the group every year?
13430Should the librarian step out and attempt to stimulate this social instinct and to guide this organizing effort?
13430Should we not think that some horrible epidemic had laid its hand on us?
13430Some literature lasts a century, some a year, some a week; where shall we draw the line below which all must be condemned as ephemeral?
13430Suppose nearly half the pebbles were black?
13430That one black pebble represents a tiny doubt; does it affect the direction of his enforced action?
13430The Tumtum Springs did my uncle''s gout so much good; why does n''t your cousin try them for her headaches?
13430The electrons preserve their individuality amid the most diverse vicissitudes, is it the same with the atoms of energy?
13430The supplementary question,"Why do not readers read?"
13430Then of what country in the realm of literature do you desire to be a citizen?
13430Then she broke out animatedly:"Why, I just wanted American travels, do n''t you know?
13430This and its correlative"Why do we die?"
13430This is doubtless a fault, and its possessor should suffer, but how about the equally guilty accessories?
13430Those who are interested in the proper use of our libraries are asking continually,"What do readers read?"
13430To quote from Poincarà ©''s paper:"How should we picture a radiating body?
13430To what, then, must we attribute the growth of the feeling that the treatment of disease by the administration of drugs is on the decline?
13430To which type, do you think, will the public prefer to resort?
13430WHAT MAKES PEOPLE READ?
13430We are now in a position to ask the question: Is the matter in a mixture of two continua identical with that of its constituents?
13430We have had the psychology of race, of the crowd and of the criminal; where is the investigator who has studied the Psychology of Woman?
13430What are the advantages and what the limitations of each?
13430What brings these people to the library?
13430What can he do to make his business more valued and respected, more useful to the public and more profitable to himself?
13430What can there be in common between these two acts of faith?
13430What can we do toward generating or taking advantage of other great driving impulses toward community education?
13430What could be simpler than to advise the extermination of all germ diseases by killing off the germs?
13430What do the members of his staff say?
13430What does an animal do, and what does it not do, when it"browses"?
13430What does it not do?
13430What does the librarian think?
13430What does the library board think?
13430What else is meant by our business branches, our technology rooms, our legislative and municipal reference departments?
13430What has the library''s annual report to say about it?
13430What ideas, then, does the flag stand for?
13430What is the general impression about this in the community?
13430What is the philosophical system most widely known at present as American?
13430What is the result?
13430What is the result?
13430What is the use of it?
13430What is the value of such work, and why should fame be the reward of him who pursues it successfully?
13430What of religion?
13430What then, I repeat, must the pharmacist do to succeed, personally and professionally?
13430What will thus inspire me, do you ask?
13430What would the old man do without it?
13430What, now, if a sentence, a stanza, a paragraph, a page, passes into the brain through the eye?
13430What, then, is the part that the community may play in increasing the efficiency of a public institution like the public library?
13430What, then?
13430When we read a Roman account of encounters between the legions and the northern tribes, where do we place ourselves in imagination, as readers?
13430Whence come we and whither do we go?
13430Where are yours?
13430Where shall we place this collection?
13430Who are your favorites?
13430Who can be sorry that back of the flag there are earnest men; nay, that there are ships there, and guns?
13430Who will be the first manager to experiment with this new adjunct to the art of the stage?
13430Why do we preserve by continual reprinting Shakespeare and Scott and Tennyson and Hawthorne?
13430Why do you prefer your present status?
13430Why should a man harbor in his house a book that he has read once and never cares to read again?
13430Why should each man talk to a woman"as if she were another man"?
13430Why should he own one that he will never care to read at all?
13430Why should not Mrs. Smith, who was out over night in the blizzard of 1888, recount her experiences, mental as well as physical?
13430Why should not a movie caption be good literature?
13430Why should the local debating club, the mothers''meeting-- nay, why should the political ward meeting be barred out?
13430Why should we have two languages-- as we practically do-- one to be interpreted by the ear and the other by the eye?
13430Why shut our eyes to the truth?
13430Why the difference?
13430Why, indeed?
13430Why?
13430With what dam shall we withstand it; through what sluices shall we lead it; into what useful turbines shall we direct it?
13430Wo n''t that be nice?"
13430Would that make the slightest difference about what he would do?
13430Would they have survived if they had begun to sell cigars and lawn- mowers?
13430Would you prefer a taste fixed by someone who tells the browser what he ought to like?
13430Would you rather be a citizen of the United States than, we will say, of Nicaragua?
13430Yet how much that is of value to the world first saw the light in a paper read before a woman''s club?
13430or are you looking up porcelain?"
13430was Cromwell truly born thereon?
41837''Got trimmed, did I?'' 41837 A folio edition of Shakespeare or only the original manuscript of one of his plays?"
41837A wall?
41837Across the river? 41837 And indeed,"she thought dreamily,"why should they not be?
41837And it was you who told the police I was in danger when that terrible man and woman locked me in?
41837And was it done in dark red leather with the decorations all in gold?
41837And you followed us right out into the country that night we went to the Ramsey cottage?
41837And, and,Lucile whispered the words,"was there a bookmark in the upper corner of the inside of the front cover?"
41837Are these the ones?
41837Are you going to take the book?
41837Are you interested in the exhibit?
41837Are you interested in this child?
41837Are you sure?
41837Are-- are you Roderick Vining?
41837Been studying late?
41837But fi- fum,she laughed a low laugh, throwing back her head until her hair danced over her white shoulders like a golden shower,"why borrow trouble?
41837But how,she asked herself,"is all this tangle to be straightened out?
41837But if I were to tell you that for the present I did not wish to have you ask me where it was, what would you say?
41837But if they did, why should they call the police for your protection?
41837But this money, this hundred dollars?
41837But what are we doing out here?
41837But what do you mean to do about it?
41837But, Florence, how can we get it?
41837By the way,Frank Morrow''s voice startled her,"you live over at the university, do n''t you?"
41837Can I never escape it? 41837 Come alone?"
41837Decent?
41837Did he have a birthmark on his chin, this man you bought the book from?
41837Did we rescue that child from that woman?
41837Did we what?
41837Did we?
41837Did what?
41837Did you find out who it was?
41837Did you hear what the child said, that she''d rather die than steal?
41837Did you see that?
41837Did-- did you finish it?
41837Do you think we should warn her? 41837 Do you wish to stay with her?"
41837Florence,she whispered excitedly,"did you hear a footstep behind us?"
41837Frank Morrow sent you all the way from Chicago that you might ask me that question? 41837 From whom?"
41837He--She paused in her perplexing problem to grip her companion''s arm and whisper,"What was that?"
41837How can you know so much about the book?
41837How could she do it?
41837How did the police know that something was going wrong in that house? 41837 How did you come here?"
41837I do n''t believe in ghosts, but-- where have I seen that face before? 41837 I-- I do n''t like it,"shivered Lucile,"but what else is there to do?"
41837I-- I wonder if she could have taken it,she whispered,"that child?
41837If the books are worth all that money, how dare you take the risk of leaving things as they are for a single hour?
41837Is someone here to meet her or is she entering the place to get something?
41837Is that all you know about it?
41837Is what she says true?
41837It might be,said Florence doubtfully,"but it does n''t seem probable, does it?
41837Let''s do it then?
41837Lucile,said Florence in a tense whisper,"are we going to let that beast of a woman get that child?
41837Mind doing me a favor?
41837Mind going over the whole story again?
41837Miss Tucker,the librarian smiled,"do you chance to have any knowledge of the whereabouts of the first volume of our early edition of Shakespeare?"
41837Not the rich Ramsey?
41837Now how shall I find her?
41837Oh, are you?
41837Oh, that?
41837Oh,she smiled back,"are there really original manuscripts of Shakespeare''s plays?"
41837Pardon me; you wanted to see me? 41837 Perhaps not at all?"
41837Please may I take a chair?
41837Question is,she told herself,"what am I going to do about it?"
41837Seems strange, does n''t it?
41837She returned once, why not again?
41837Show up yet?
41837That book?
41837The one who followed me the night I got caught in that wretched woman''s house, and other times?
41837The one with his collar turned up and with his back to us?
41837The police? 41837 There''s nothing so terrible about that, is there?"
41837Want to see that she gets safely home?
41837We-- we--she faltered"--may we not step back under the light where you can see the book better?"
41837Well, my young friend,he smiled,"what is it I may do for you this morning?
41837Well, what will it be to- day?
41837Well,she heaved a sigh,"whatever could have come over him?
41837Well?
41837Were two of them very small ones?
41837Wha-- where has she gone?
41837What about it, little one?
41837What did he want?
41837What did you tell her?
41837What do you make of it?
41837What else could I do? 41837 What for?"
41837What is it?
41837What next?
41837What right has he? 41837 What right have you to keep it?"
41837What two?
41837What would n''t one give to have it for a study?
41837What would that young man be doing in a summer cottage at this time of year?
41837What''s going on here?
41837What''s that for?
41837What''s the answer to all this? 41837 What''s the girl tied up for?"
41837What''s the trouble?
41837What''s the use?
41837What?
41837What?
41837Whatever can be the matter with him?
41837Where am I and where am I to go?
41837Where are we?
41837Where did you get this book?
41837Where''ve you been in all this storm? 41837 Wherever can we be going?
41837Who can it be?
41837Who is it?
41837Who was he?
41837Who''s Frank Morrow?
41837Who-- who was he?
41837Why always the gargoyle? 41837 Why did we do it?"
41837Why-- er--there was a catch in her throat--"is it gone?"
41837Why?
41837Why?
41837Will you tell him all about it?
41837Wonder what my new acquirement is like?
41837Wonder what she calls the taking of our Shakespeare?
41837Would n''t you like to see the inside of it?
41837Would you like to have me tell you a little about them?
41837Would you like to see some old books and get a notion of their value?
41837Would you-- would you mind telling me how you knew what book I had when you did not see it?
41837Yes, was n''t it? 41837 Yes, why?
41837You do n''t think she''d dare?
41837You-- you''re not?
41837Your daughter?
41837''Why should you think that?''
41837A moment later she said in a quiet tone of voice:"Lucile, do n''t you think it''s about time we waded ashore?
41837A second question suddenly disturbed her: Who was this child?
41837Ah, yes, how wonderful they are, these books?"
41837And could he, above all, induce an innocent child to join him in the deed?
41837And how could a child with a face like hers consciously commit a theft?"
41837And what does he want?"
41837And what is the meaning of the secret mark?"
41837And what would n''t two hundred dollars mean to her?
41837And who would suspect me?
41837And why did he assume that she was borrowing it?"
41837And why?
41837And, indeed, who, besides herself, could be in the book stacks at this hour of the night?
41837At first she thought she ought, yet deliberation led to silence, for, after all, what did she know?
41837Besides, if it''s plain business, why all this slipping in at the lake front instead of passing through the gate?"
41837Besides, what if it is?
41837But now she clutched at her heart as she asked herself once more:"Who can it be?
41837But where?
41837But where?"
41837But why was she going?
41837Ca n''t you?"
41837Came clear and got out of this affair; turned facts over to the authorities and allowed them to take their course?"
41837Came to borrow a book, did you?
41837Can I go no place without discovering that books marked with that hated, haunting sign have been stolen?
41837Can you see it in the morning papers?
41837Could he stoop to stealing?"
41837Did he suspect her?
41837Did he suspect something?
41837Did he suspect?
41837Did she catch a glimpse of a retreating figure at the far side of the campus?
41837Did the prince of the steel market wish a folio edition of Audubon''s"Birds of America"?
41837Did you wish to speak with him?"
41837Dinner, on such occasions, is served on a tea- wagon in his library; sort of makes a fellow feel at home, do n''t you know?
41837Do-- do you suppose it will be anything very dreadful?"
41837Ever been to New York before?"
41837Got any friends in New York?"
41837Had he perhaps seen her enter the library on one of those nights of her watching?
41837Had she been watched from above?
41837Had she done so at the old man''s direction?
41837Had she heard?
41837Had she herself taken it?
41837Had she seen her before?
41837Had that person been the same as he who had followed her this very night in an attempt to regain possession of the two books?
41837Had they done this to free a child about whom they knew nothing save that she had stolen two valuable books?
41837Have you read it?"
41837He paused as if in reflection, then said suddenly:"Do you think one would ever be justified in protecting a person whom he knew had stolen something?"
41837How did she expect to get out?
41837How did they come to be right there when you needed them most?"
41837How had she gotten in?
41837How long would they remain there?
41837How was I to know what had happened?
41837I wonder if he suspects-- but, no, how could he?"
41837I wonder why?
41837If he was a detective, how had she escaped him on this trip?
41837If not, who then?
41837In such a place?
41837Is that tall book second from the end on the shelf with the vacant space the Portland chart book?"
41837It was the man who had been seated at the table, but why had he been spying?
41837Last of all,"she smiled,"where does our friend, the aged Frenchman, the godfather of that precious child, come in on it?
41837Let''s see, what is that one?"
41837Let''s see-- who could tell me?
41837Let''s see?"
41837Lucile asked eagerly,"and where was his shop?"
41837Mind if I smoke?"
41837Or was it a thought?
41837Or, after all, had she?
41837Perhaps you should like to have me explain some of them to you?"
41837Pretty good, eh?"
41837Probably-- but what''s the use?
41837See that man?"
41837She had told Florence nothing, yet she had surprised her roommate often looking at her in a way which said,"Why are you out so late every night?
41837She was in a great, dark city alone and she was going-- where?
41837Should she tell what she knew?
41837Should the child be allowed to carry it to the mysterious cottage or should they insist on taking it to their room for safe keeping?
41837Simple, was n''t it?
41837So he did have a customer who was impatient of waiting and might seek a copy elsewhere?
41837That ends the affair, does it not?
41837That seems sensible enough, does n''t it?
41837The next turn found her mind focused on the one important question: Which way had the child gone?
41837The question was, what did she intend to do?
41837To what place?
41837Want''a buy it?"
41837Was a single book missing?
41837Was he a detective who had been set to dog her trail or was he some friend?
41837Was she hardened or completely innocent of guilt?
41837We gave gladly, for was it not our beloved France that was in danger?
41837Were two or three missing?
41837What I wish to know is, where did you get it?"
41837What are two books compared to the marring of a human life?
41837What could that be other than books?
41837What could that child and the old Frenchman do if the fire reached their cottage?
41837What did Frank Morrow hope to prove by any discoveries she might make regarding the former ownership of the book she carried in her pocket?
41837What did he mean?
41837What do you think it would look like?
41837What do you?
41837What great man may have contemplated the destruction of his wife?
41837What if this turned out to be a jail- breaking expedition?
41837What is one to make of that?
41837What noble lady may have whispered in its presence of some secret love?
41837What right has a university, or anyone else for that matter, to have books worth thousands of dollars?
41837What was he driving at?
41837What was she doing in the library at this unearthly hour?
41837What was the man''s purpose?
41837What was the use?
41837What was to come of that?
41837What would be the sense of having a wood plane worth eighteen thousand dollars when a five dollar one would do just as good work?"
41837What would that old man and child have to do with prisons?"
41837What would you say it was worth?"
41837What youths and maids may have slipped away into its quiet corner to utter murmurs of eternal devotion?
41837What?"
41837When is he likely to return?"
41837Where was the culprit?
41837Where''d I get her?
41837Where?
41837Who at that moment could tell?
41837Who could be expected to keep up with her?"
41837Who could tell when the fire would reach the mysterious tumble- down cottage with its aged occupant?
41837Who shall it be?"
41837Why be so foolish?"
41837Why did he not wire me?
41837Why do n''t you let me follow her alone?"
41837Why do n''t you share things with your pal?"
41837Why does Monsieur Le Bon want the books?
41837Why had the child taken the book?
41837Why not now?
41837Why not pass them on?"
41837Why should not such a person be punished?
41837Why?
41837Why?
41837Wild questions raced through her mind: Who was the child?
41837Wo n''t you please look at the book and answer my question?"
41837Woods are awful sort of spooky at night, do n''t you think so?"
41837Would it be all yellow and fiery like a glowworm or would it be just white, like a sheet?"
41837Would you mind taking them along?"
41837You do n''t think someone could suspect-- be shadowing us?"
41837Your address?
41837Your friends here will see that they are not stolen from you, will you not?"
41837grunted the proprietor suddenly,"what''s this?
41837she exclaimed,"what are you crying for?
46933!_ What?
46933''Peru,''she began to read,"''the ancient kingdom of the Incas--''""Of the whichers?"
46933Ai n''t the teacher comin''?
46933Almost the only novel which I condescended to include in my list is''Don Quixote,''and why did I do that? 46933 And the lasso that hangs above them?"
46933And the stuffed bloodhound?
46933And this hen?
46933Are you sure that is what it is?
46933Are you sure there was such a man?
46933As I go over my reading for the past five years at Upidee, in what do I find it to consist? 46933 Ca n''t you roll me a cigarette?
46933Daniel? 46933 David, are you there?
46933Did anything come of it?
46933Did n''t they make you take a green card?
46933Did n''t yer put a feller out, or somethin''?
46933Did you look under''periodicals''?
46933Do you suppose,she whispered,"that it is the great condor of the Andes?"
46933Does n''t it?
46933Gibbon is a man then? 46933 Going to have some sweet- peas?"
46933Got any new books?
46933Have I? 46933 Have you ever read it?"
46933Have you had trouble with him before?
46933Have you it right there?
46933Here are some smaller animals,said Mr. Gooch;"do you know this fellow with the sharp nose?"
46933Him? 46933 How about Shakspeare?"
46933How did you get all these weapons?
46933How do you do it?
46933How long do they have to keep that up?
46933How many cards you got?
46933How many of them are there?
46933How would that do?
46933I beg your pardon?
46933Is it awfully dry? 46933 Is n''t it?
46933Is that necessary?
46933Is this the library? 46933 Is this the library?"
46933Is this the one you want--''The Halfback''? 46933 Is_ that_ what it means?"
46933It is a mongoose, is it not?
46933Jane, do you mean to say that you do not know how to mulch?
46933Keep what up?
46933Know anything about it?
46933Know who Beowulf was?
46933Let''s see-- Swift, Jane Austen and Spenser are the ducks you say I ought to look up?
46933Like him?
46933Little Nell''s?
46933Miss Bixby?
46933Miss Patterson? 46933 Mister, you ai n''t got the lady''s job away from her, have yer?"
46933No; what good are they?
46933Now, Willie,she said,"which do you like best, story- books or nature books?"
46933Oh, would that make any difference?
46933One moment,I interposed,"how do you classify your animals?
46933Sam, what Bailey is it they are to look it up in?
46933Say, I guess yer got into some trouble here last week, did n''t yer?
46933She was the woman that was married three or four times, and ought to have been two or three other times, was n''t she?
46933So you''ve only got to- day and to- morrow?
46933That the library? 46933 The genuine Pobble?"
46933The one with which he killed the Lord of Luna?'' 46933 The snakes are an especially fine part of the collection,"Mr. Gooch remarked;"do you see this swamp adder?
46933There is n''t any such thing,she said presently;"do n''t you mean perennials?
46933They look much more harmless than Bob Acres''pistols, do they not? 46933 This?
46933To be what?
46933Trouble? 46933 Was he the fellow who said we were all descended from monkeys?"
46933Was it any good?
46933Was there never an Indian raid?
46933Well, let me see, how about Browning?
46933Well, what could we have? 46933 Well, why could n''t we have that?"
46933Well, why_ did n''t_ you mulch''em?
46933Well, you know who Swinburne was, do n''t you?
46933What are danger signs?
46933What do they say?
46933What do yer want them for?
46933What do you mean?
46933What happened to them?
46933What have you got there?
46933What in thunder are you beginning to grind now for?
46933What is it?
46933What is this bottle? 46933 What on earth is a cromlech?"
46933What one?
46933What was that?
46933What will happen to them?
46933What would the scientific name be?
46933What''s that?
46933What, the author of''Winged Warblers of Waltham''and''Common or Garden Birds''?
46933What?
46933Where is he?
46933Where''s that copy of''Thelma''? 46933 Where''s the teacher?"
46933Who are they?
46933Who? 46933 Whom did you see in there?"
46933Why, it does n''t say that, does it?
46933Will we? 46933 Will you please ask Miss Bixby to look it up, and let me know as soon as possible?"
46933Would you mind getting me a rain- coat? 46933 You do n''t?
46933You wanted to see me? 46933 _ What?_ Tripped you up?"
46933_ What?_ Tripped you up?
46933A man( mopping his brow):"Say, what''s this''open- shelf''business,--d''ye have to find your own books?
46933A serious- faced man, evidently a workingman in his best clothes:"Have n''t you got the Encyclopà ¦ dia Britannica here?
46933A small boy:"Have you any books about explosions?
46933A small girl:"Please, can I keep this book on how to bring up parrots till next week?"
46933A tall and very resolute- looking woman, with three books under her arm:"Have you got''The Leopard''s Spots''in this library?
46933A voice from the rear of the crowd:"Why do n''t you do something about it?"
46933A woman leading a child:"Haf you de Deutsches Balladenbuch?"
46933A woman with poppies on her hat:"How do you do, Miss Vanderpyl?
46933A woman:"Just let me take that pencil of yours, a minute?"
46933A young lady, an acquaintance of Miss Grant, who thinks she is doing a little slumming:"Oh, Miss Grant, how do you do?
46933Ai n''t you?"
46933And this is the book you want to take?"
46933And who was Pamela Pingree who died in 1689?"
46933And your husband, I presume, will represent the marquis?"
46933And, look here, is n''t this page 719?"
46933Another man:"That''s because it''s Carnegie''s library, ai n''t it, miss?"
46933Another small boy:"Have n''t you got the Mutt and Jeff book yet?
46933Are there not some events that would be suitable?
46933At the time when I began to take down their conversation, the young woman was saying:"What''s''Gibbon''?
46933Bailey who?
46933Browning?"
46933Bunkum?"
46933But what was that about Grub Street?
46933But what will I say to Aunt Ella?"
46933But, say, how is that?
46933Buying sweet- peas?"
46933Can you do nothing to remedy this state of things?
46933Central gave me the wrong number.... Hello, is this central?
46933Could it have been because his poems are easy to understand and that I thought it would seem more''scholarly''to put in Browning?
46933D''ye see this postal?
46933David?
46933Dear me, is that your ancestor?"
46933Did not General Washington and Mrs. Washington visit our town?"
46933Did she?"
46933Did you call for us?"
46933Did you look under''periodicals''?"
46933Do n''t say he lived in the Craigie House on Brattle street, and wrote''Evangeline,''will you?
46933Do n''t yer know how to work that?"
46933Do n''t yer?
46933Do you mean to say that you own only_ one_ copy of such an important work?"
46933Do you recognize the canary?"
46933Do you s''pose I can work that gag now, an''get''By England''s Aid''?"
46933Do you suppose an authority like Mrs. Bunkum would write a book on gardening, and not mention such common things as sunflowers?
46933Do you understand?
46933During the interval that followed, the operator at central asked three times:"Did you get them?"
46933Ever hear of him?"
46933Gracious, is that clock right?
46933Have you a history of Peru?
46933Have you any books about birds?"
46933Have you any other animals in it?"
46933Have you anything sufficiently mournful?"
46933Have you ever raised any?"
46933Have you ever read this book?"
46933Have you ever tried it?"
46933Have you got it here or have n''t you?
46933Have you got it?"
46933Have you something there in which you have absolutely no interest-- some book or article that is dry as dust?"
46933Have you the book right there?
46933Have you''The Blandishments of Belinda''in this library?"
46933Hello, is this the Public Library?
46933Henderson''s glue factory?
46933How are you for pigs''feet to- day?"
46933How are you on Swift, Addison and that crowd?
46933How do you do it?"
46933How does it go?"
46933How many yer got?"
46933How old was the man?''
46933I ca n''t see it over the telephone, can I?
46933I do n''t see what this''Sunbonnet''means, do you?
46933I had often read of this custom in times of mutiny, so I remarked:"I suppose it was by your orders, Captain?"
46933I had to sit and listen to this chatter:"What yer got?"
46933I understand that you answer inquiries by telephone?
46933I''d like to read his book-- I wonder if they''ve got it here?"
46933If that''s so, how under the sun, I''d like to know, was he married to Pamela Perkins in 1706?"
46933In Freedom Bailey''s Cyclopà ¦ dia of Agriculture, or any dictionary.... Did you find it?
46933Is n''t she there?"
46933Is that Miss Fairfax?
46933Is that central?
46933Is that you?
46933Is there no other way?
46933Is this Miss Fairfax?
46933Is this the library?
46933Is this the library?
46933It does n''t look earthly, does it?
46933It has n''t been discharged-- who brought this in?
46933It was about so high-- oh, I forgot, you ca n''t see over the telephone, can you?
46933It was to appear next April, and now who knows whether I shall be there ready to reply to the attacks which I know it will provoke?
46933Kookle?"
46933Let me see; I believe I sent you an advance invitation?
46933Miss Fairfax has gone to her supper?
46933Miss Fairfax?
46933Miss French, the other librarian, laying a very dirty slip of paper on Miss Grant''s desk:"What do you suppose this means?
46933Miss Grant:"Oh, yes-- just write her a note, will you, Miss French?
46933Miss Grant:"Perhaps you took it from the central library, or one of the other branches?"
46933Miss Grant:"Why, how old is he?"
46933Miss Patterson?
46933Miss V.( becoming rather red):"Your card?"
46933Miss V.:"Ca n''t you tell me about the book,--what it was about, I mean?"
46933Miss V.:"He means''One Way Out,''--see if there is a copy in, will you?"
46933Miss V.:"Is that it?"
46933Miss V.:"It must keep him rather busy, do n''t you think, running all his libraries?"
46933Miss V.:"Was it a story?
46933Miss V.:"Was it fiction-- a novel?"
46933Miss V.:"What book do you want?"
46933Miss V.:"What was the title?"
46933Miss V.:"Which same one?
46933Miss V.:"Who was the author-- who wrote it?"
46933Miss V.:"Why, I ca n''t give you a book unless you have a card,--haven''t you ever borrowed books from the library?"
46933Miss V.:"Will you look it up in the catalogue, please?
46933Miss V.:"Yes, your library card,--haven''t you one?"
46933No, please hold the line; I have n''t finished yet.... Is that you, Miss Fairfax?
46933Not by authors, I take it?"
46933Now how many of these will you take?
46933Now what would you advise?
46933Now, can you tell me what the name of the book is, Miss Patterson?"
46933Now, do you remember what it was?"
46933Now, if I should describe it to you do you think you could look it up in some of your books?"
46933Now, if you''ll just--"A high school student:"Can I get a copy of''The Merchant of Venice,''the Rolfe edition?"
46933Now, what do you suppose it is?"
46933Now, what shall I do-- shall I sit down here and help you?"
46933Now, would you let x equal the age of the uncle, or the man?"
46933Oh, Miss Anderson?
46933Oh, Miss Anderson?
46933Oh, Miss Tyler and Miss Hancock, out at the desk, of course, and who?
46933Oh, how do you do?
46933Oh, is n''t that''The Long Roll''over there on that desk?
46933Oh, you did-- you''re returning it?
46933One of the little boys began to cry, and Mr. Fernald, remarking,"I guess that will do, wo n''t it?"
46933Over there, you see that big crowd?
46933Perhaps you recognize the other?"
46933Say, have you ever read any of Alger''s?"
46933Shall I put him out?"
46933Smith?"
46933Something about your son?"
46933Still, my little museum-- you have never seen it?
46933That peculiar machine in the corner?
46933That''s so, ai n''t it?
46933The confidential man( beginning to lose his patience, at last):"_ About?_ Why, it was about a lot of things!"
46933The confidential man:"Huh?"
46933The confidential man:"Lord, I dunno!--Just let me have it, will yer?"
46933The confidential man:"The title?--Oh, the_ name_ of it?"
46933The man:"Why, I thought he run it, do n''t he?"
46933The personage( mystified):"Card?"
46933The personage:"Who made that rule?"
46933The personage:"Why not?"
46933The small man:"I beg pardon?"
46933The small man:"Oh, those_ horrid_ cards?
46933The two swords next to Horatius''s-- who owned them?"
46933The very large woman:"What?
46933The what?
46933The woman with poppies:"Oh, is that so?"
46933There were my beloved Goethe and Schiller-- should I start with them?
46933This is a cigar- cutter''s knife-- a curious weapon, is n''t it?
46933This is a literal account of what they said:"When is the exam?"
46933This other raven--""Belonged to Barnaby Rudge, I suppose?"
46933This pretty little pair of scissors?
46933This stone- headed club is my oldest specimen-- it belonged to Ab-- you know his story, no doubt?
46933This the library?"
46933Two dozen?
46933Two high- school students, at once:"Can I get''The Merchant of Venice''in the Rolfe edition?"
46933Two women:"Oh, what''s he putting out the lights for?
46933WHY NOT GET RID OF THEM?
46933Well, how will this one do?
46933Well, look it up in the catalogue.... Oh, ask Miss Anderson to come back.... Is that you, Miss Anderson?
46933Well, where is it, then?
46933What are you staying so late for?
46933What are you talking about?
46933What does he think?"
46933What does the course cover?"
46933What does your Aunt Ella read?
46933What in the name of common sense impelled their coach to put Sir John Falstaff at center?
46933What is that?
46933What on earth shall I do?
46933What was his attitude toward it?"
46933What would you like to know about her?"
46933What you got?"
46933What''s that, Central?
46933What''s the matter with that girl at central?
46933What''s the matter-- is he back again?"
46933What''s this--''Site of the Old Pump''?
46933What, is n''t this the Public Library?
46933What?
46933What?
46933What?
46933What?
46933What?
46933What?
46933What?
46933What?
46933What?
46933What?
46933When are you goin''to get it?"
46933When that point has been reached with real ghosts, what can be expected of the fictitious ones?
46933Where did you get all this?"
46933Where is Miss Anderson?
46933Where is he?
46933Where''s Mrs. Bunkum?
46933Where, for instance, is the village simpleton?
46933Which should I begin to read?
46933Who invented them?"
46933Who is in the reference room?
46933Who is the author?"
46933Who is this talking?
46933Who is this?
46933Who was the author?"
46933Who''s he?
46933Who, indeed, but poor, despised Benny Bilkins, the village idiot?
46933Why did n''t yer get''By England''s Aid''?"
46933Why do n''t you take some of her books?"
46933Why do n''t you use your influence with him to lead him toward truthfulness?
46933Why does n''t she call''em sunflowers?
46933Why, do you know that the author is President of Harvard University?"
46933Why, what do you think he told me last week?"
46933Why, what''s the matter with this index?
46933Why, whatever do you find to do with yourselves down there?
46933Why, you read all the books that come into the library, do n''t you?"
46933Will not some of them dig up one or two of the old characters we have been discussing, and see if they can not send the thermometer up a few degrees?
46933Will you hold the line, please?"
46933Will you look it up, please?
46933Would I like it?"
46933Would you like to see them?"
46933Would you mind looking it up in the catalogue, please?"
46933Yes, to come to the''phone.... What''s that?
46933Yes; is Miss Fairfax there?
46933Yes; who is this speaking, please?
46933Yes?
46933You and the other ladies of your club wish to give a pageant, illustrating past events in the history of the town?"
46933You are?
46933You can tell them to me over the''phone, can you not, and I will take them down?"
46933You do n''t know where it is?
46933You do, do you not?
46933You have accessioned two hundred books this afternoon?
46933You have?
46933You know of Mr. Kookle, of course?"
46933You know the old ballad?"
46933You remember them, of course?"
46933You''ll just let me take it, wo n''t you?"
46933You''re sure you do n''t remember the one I want?"
46933You''ve_ quite_ recovered from that dreadful illness you had last fall?
46933_ Now_, you can remember what book it was, ca n''t you, Miss Patterson?"
46933do you suppose any of those are sunflowers?"
46933inquired Mrs. Mayo, eagerly,"What is it?"
46933that is what you call it-- a literary- zoölogical annex?
46933why, it was about-- now, what in the world_ was_ it about?