Contents.

1. Publisher's Note.
2. The Author's Advertisement to the Second Edition.
3. Contents.
4. List of Illustrations.
5. Memoir of the Author.
6. Chapter I.
7. Aberdeen.
8. Chapter II.
9. Edinburgh.
10. Chapter III.
11. Beginning of Literary Life.
12. Chapter IV.
13. Second Stage of Literary Life.
14. Chapter V.
15. Third Stage of Literary Life.
16. Chapter VI.
17. LITERARY LIFE (continued).
18. Chapter VII.
19. The End.
20. The Book-Hunter.
21. PART I.—HIS NATURE. Introductory.
22. A Vision of Mighty Book-Hunters.
23. Reminiscences.
24. Classification.
25. The Prowler and the Auction-Haunter.
26. PART II.—HIS FUNCTIONS. The Hobby.
27. The Desultory Reader or Bohemian of Literature.
28. The Collector and the Scholar.
29. The Gleaner and his Harvest.
30. Attorneys.—(33 Henry VI. c. 7.)
31. Fustian.—(11 Henry VII. c. 27.)
32. Pretenders.
33. His Achievements in the Creation of Libraries.
34. The Preservation of Literature.
35. Librarians.
36. Bibliographies.
37. PART III.—HIS CLUB. Clubs in General.
38. The Structure of the Book Clubs.
39. The Roxburghe Club.
40. Some Book-Club Men.
41. PART IV.—BOOK-CLUB LITERATURE. Generalities.
42. John Spalding.
43. Robert Wodrow.
44. The Early Northern Saints.
45. Sermons in Stones.
46. Footnotes:
47. Index.
48. The End.
49. Imprinted by William Blackwood and Sons, at their Printing Office, 32 Thistle Street, Edinburgh.

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