course, by preference, opening out by a level window into an old-
fashioned garden where the roses are in full bloom, and to wander as
he pleases from flower to flower where the spirit of the books and
the fragrance of the roses mingle in one delight.

Times there are when he would like to hold a meeting of bookmen, each
of whom should be a mighty hunter, and he would dare to invite Cosmo
Medici, who was as keen about books as he was about commerce, and
according to Gibbon used to import Indian spices and Greek books by
the same vessel, and that admirable Bishop of Durham who was as
joyful on reaching Paris as the Jewish pilgrim was when he went to
Sion, because of the books that were there. "O Blessed God of Gods,
what a rush of the glow of Pleasure rejoiced our hearts, as often as
we visited Paris, the Paradise of the World! There we long to
remain, where on account of the greatness of our love the days ever
appear to us to be few. There are delightful libraries in cells
redolent with aromatics, there flourishing greenhouses of all sorts
of volumes, there academic meads, trembling with the earthquake of
Athenian Peripatetics pacing up and down, there the promontory of
Parnassus and the Porticoes of the Stoics." The Duke of Roxburghe
and Earl Spencer, two gallant sportsmen whose spoils have enriched
the land; Monkbarns also, though we will not let him bring any
antiquities with him, jagged or otherwise; and Charles Lamb, whom we
shall coax into telling over again how he started out at ten o'clock
on Saturday night and roused up old Barker in Covent Garden, and came
home in triumph with "that folio Beaumont and Fletcher," going forth
almost in tears lest the book should be gone, and coming home
rejoicing, carrying his sheaf with him. Besides, whether Bodley and
Dibdin like it or not, we must have a Royalty, for there were Queens
who collected, and also on occasions stole books, and though she be