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Ballads of Books

by Brander Matthews

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  1. 1Dedication — Prefatory Note
  2. 2Proem
  3. 3The Baby in the Library
  4. 4My Books
  5. 5The Art of Book-Keeping
  6. 6In the Library
  7. 7My Shakspere
  8. 8The Bookworms
  9. 9Catullus to His Book
  10. 10Old Books Are Best
  11. 11The Forgotten Books
  12. 12An Invocation in a Library
  13. 13Concerning the Honor of Books
  14. 14Lines
  15. 15My Books
  16. 16To a Missal of the Thirteenth Century
  17. 17The Book-Plate’s Petition
  18. 18Over the Threshold of My Library
  19. 19The Chrysalis of a Bookworm
  20. 20Epigram
  21. 21The Bibliomania
  22. 22Triolet to Her Husband
  23. 23A Nook and a Book
  24. 24The Sultan of My Books
  25. 25Our Book-Shelves
  26. 26To His Book
  27. 27To His Book
  28. 28To His Books
  29. 29Sonnet
  30. 30My Books
  31. 31To My Bookseller
  32. 32To Sir Henry Goodyere
  33. 33In the Album of Lucy Barton
  34. 34Ballade of the Book-Hunter
  35. 35Ballade of True Wisdom
  36. 36Ballade of the Bookman’s Paradise
  37. 37The Rowfant Books
  38. 38The Rowfant Library
  39. 39Ghosts in the Library
  40. 40The Book Battalion
  41. 41On the Fly-Leaf of a Book of Old Plays
  42. 42Too Many Books
  43. 43From the Fly-Leaf of the Rowfant — Montaigne (Florio, 1603)
  44. 44My Books
  45. 45The Souls of Books
  46. 46De Libris
  47. 47Ex Libris
  48. 48On an Inscription
  49. 49To My Books
  50. 50‘Desultory Reading’
  51. 51The Bookworm
  52. 52Among My Books
  53. 53A Ruined Library
  54. 54My Books
  55. 55To My Books on Parting With Them
  56. 56Among My Books
  57. 57The Library
  58. 58In the Library
  59. 59The Book-Hunter
  60. 60The Library
  61. 61Picture-Books in Winter
  62. 62Companions
  63. 63The Book of Life
  64. 64On Certain Books
  65. 65To His Books
  66. 66Literature and Nature
  67. 67The Library
  68. 68The Country Squire
  69. 69Old Books
  70. 70Appendix — The Library
  71. 71A Final Word — The Collector to His Library

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