CONTENTS.

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MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR,[i]
THE BOOK-HUNTER.
Part I.—His Nature.
INTRODUCTORY,[1]
A VISION OF MIGHTY BOOK-HUNTERS,[14]
REMINISCENCES,[59]
CLASSIFICATION,[62]
THE PROWLER AND THE AUCTION-HAUNTER,[88]
Part II.—His Functions.
THE HOBBY,[101]
THE DESULTORY READER OR BOHEMIAN OF LITERATURE,[108]
THE COLLECTOR AND THE SCHOLAR,[115]
THE GLEANER AND HIS HARVEST,[124]
PRETENDERS,[161]
HIS ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE CREATION OF LIBRARIES,[168]
THE PRESERVATION OF LITERATURE,[205]
LIBRARIANS,[227]
BIBLIOGRAPHIES,[233]
Part III.—His Club.
CLUBS IN GENERAL,[243]
THE STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK CLUBS,[251]
THE ROXBURGHE CLUB,[265]
SOME BOOK-CLUB MEN,[283]
Part IV.—Book-Club Literature.
GENERALITIES,[311]
JOHN SPALDING,[330]
ROBERT WODROW,[338]
THE EARLY NORTHERN SAINTS,[352]
SERMONS IN STONES,[404]
INDEX,[419]

List of Illustrations.

PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR,Frontispiece.
THE AVENUE, CRAIGHOUSE,[i]
CRAIGHOUSE,[lix]
DALMENY CHURCHYARD,[civ]
A NOOK IN THE AUTHOR'S LIBRARY,[1]


The Avenue, Craighouse.

MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.