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Title: Gossip in a Library
Author: Edmund Gosse
Release Date: March 18, 2004 [eBook #11628]
Language: English
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GOSSIP IN A LIBRARY
EDMUND GOSSE
1913

OTHER WORKS BY MR. EDMUND GOSSE
_Northern Studies_. 1879.
_Life of Gray_. 1882.
_Seventeenth-Century Studies_. 1883.
_Life of Congreve_. 1888.
_A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature_. 1889
_Life of Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S_. 1890.
_The Secret of Narcisse: a Romance_. 1892.

_Questions at Issue_. 1893.
_Critical Kit-Kats_. 1896.
_A Short History of Modern English Literature_. 1897.
_Life and Letters of John Donne_. 1899.
_Hypolympia_. 1901.
_French Profiles_. 1904.
_Life of Jeremy Taylor_. 1904.
_Life of Sir Thomas Browne_. 1905.
_Father and Son_. 1907.
_Life of Ibsen_. 1908.
_Two Visits to Denmark_. 1911.
_Collected Poems_. 1911.
_Portraits and Sketches_. 1912.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY
CAMDEN'S "BRITANNIA"
A MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATES
A POET IN PRISON
DEATH'S DUEL
GERARD'S HERBAL
PHARAMOND
A VOLUME OF OLD PLAYS
A CENSOR OF POETS
THE ROMANCE OF A DICTIONARY
LADY WINCHILSEA'S POEMS
AMASIA

LOVE AND BUSINESS
WHAT ANN LANG READ
CATS
SMART'S POEMS
POMPEY THE LITTLE
THE LIFE OF JOHN BUNGLE
BEAU NASH
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
THE DIARY OF A LOVER OF LITERATURE
PETER BELL AND HIS TORMENTORS
THE FANCY
ULTRA-CREPIDARIUS
THE DUKE OF RUTLAND'S POEMS
IONICA
THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT
INDEX

_O blessed Letters, that combine in one
All ages past, and make one live with all:
By you we doe conferre with who are gone,
And the dead-living unto councell call:
By you th' unborne shall have communion
Of what we feele, and what doth us befall_.

_SAM. DANIEL Musophilus. 1602_.
INTRODUCTORY

It is curious to reflect that the library, in our customary sense,
is quite a modern institution. Three hundred years ago there were no
public libraries in Europe. The Ambrosian, at Milan, dates from 1608;
the Bodleian, at Oxford, from 1612. To these Angelo Rocca added his in
Rome, in 1620. But private collections of books always existed, and
these were the haunts of learning, the little glimmering hearths over
which knowledge spread her cold fingers, in the darkest ages of the

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