Life — May 28, 1896 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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7 ORS Av NvLLy DREAMS. My library's not lined with treasures rare, With treasures rich, with treasures past compare. No manuscripts it holds of Poe, or Scott, And many are the autographs I've not ; In yonder alcove, over to the left, You'll find a spot of rarest tomes bereft : And there upon the walnut chiffonier ‘There stands no folio of Will Shakespeare. Now turn the key of that not-buhl-work chest, And gaze into its depth: are prints rest Therein—just try, I pray, to take one out : The truth of what I say ‘twill prove past doubt. Those Stevensons you fail to find up there Are, all of them, the rarest of the rare; And those editions of the Poets past Hold not a “first” among them—all are last.” And that small color sketch upon the wall Is not a fine Cruikshank original. Rut, oh what joy is mine to dream of what Thaven't got! —Jounx KeNoRrick Baxes, in Harper's Magazine. Freperick LockeRr-Lampson, in his recent autobiog- raphy, tells of a patient in an English hospital who one morning told his servant that he was sure his last ill- ness was beginning: ‘I'm very ill. Go for the doctor; I have lose my appetite; I can’t get through my penny roll.” “Well,” said John, much relieved, “when the baker came this morning all the penny rolls was gone, sir, sol gave you a two-penny roll."—Argonaut. AN amusing example of the ignorance of booksellers is related by The Literary World.” Searching for a de luxe copy of “Trilby,"a correspondent called at a well-known establishment and on asking if they had a copy, received the answer, “We have Du Maurier’s ‘Trilby,' but do not keep De Lux This is almost as bad as the inquiry foran epidemic facademic) diction- ary which not long ago startled a bookseller’s assistant. —Exchange. 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