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    De Libris: Prose and Verse
    De Libris: Prose and Verse
    De Libris: Prose and Verse
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    De Libris: Prose and Verse

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      De Libris - Austin Dobson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of De Libris: Prose and Verse, by Austin Dobson

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: De Libris: Prose and Verse

      Author: Austin Dobson

      Posting Date: October 24, 2011 [EBook #9979]

      Release Date: February, 2006

      First Posted: November 7, 2003

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DE LIBRIS: PROSE AND VERSE ***

      Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Keren Vergon, Sjaani and

      the Online Distributed Proofreaders

      PROLOGUE

      LECTOR BENEVOLE!--FOR SO

      THEY USED TO CALL YOU, YEARS AGO,--

      I CAN'T PRETEND TO MAKE YOU READ

      THE PAGES THAT TO THIS SUCCEED;

      NOR COULD I--IF I WOULD--EXCUSE

      THE WAYWARD PROMPTINGS OF THE MUSE

      AT WHOSE COMMAND I WROTE THEM DOWN.

      I HAVE NO HOPE TO PLEASE THE TOWN.

      I DID BUT THINK SOME FRIENDLY SOUL

      (NOT ILL-ADVISED, UPON THE WHOLE!)

      MIGHT LIKE THEM; AND "TO INTERPOSE

      A LITTLE EASE," BETWEEN THE PROSE,

      SLIPPED IN THE SCRAPS OF VERSE, THAT THUS

      THINGS MIGHT BE LESS MONOTONOUS.

      THEN, LECTOR, BE BENEVOLUS!

      CONTENTS

      Prologue

      On Some Books And Their Associations

      An Epistle To An Editor

      Bramston's Man Of Taste

      The Passionate Printer To His Love

      M. Rouquet On The Arts

      The Friend Of Humanity And The Rhymer

      The Parent's Assistant

      A Pleasant Invective Against Printing

      Two Modern Book Illustrators--I. Kate Greenaway

      A Song Of The Greenaway Child

      Two Modern Book Illustrators--II. Mr. Hugh Thomson

      Horatian Ode On The Tercentenary Of Don Quixote

      The Books Of Samuel Rogers

      Pepys' Diary

      A French Critic On Bath

      A Welcome From The Johnson Club

      Thackeray's Esmond

      A Miltonic Exercise

      Fresh Facts About Fielding

      The Happy Printer

      Cross Readings--And Caleb Whitefoord

      The Last Proof

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      * THE OTTER HUNT IN THE COMPLEAT ANGLER.

      From an unpublished pen-drawing by Mr. Hugh Thomson Frontispiece

      * GROUP OF CHILDREN. From the original pen-drawing by Kate Greenaway for The Library, 1881

      * PENCIL-SKETCHES, by the same (No. 1)

      * PENCIL-SKETCH, by the same (No. 2)

      * PENCIL-SKETCHES, by the same (No. 3)

      * PENCIL-SKETCH, by the same (No. 4)

      THE BROWN BOOK-PLATE. From the original design by Mr. Hugh Thomson in the possession of Mr. Ernest Brown

      * SIR ROGER DE COVERLEY AT THE ASSIZES. From a first rough pencil-sketch, by the same, for Days with Sir Roger de Coverley, 1886

      PEN-SKETCHES, by the same, on the Half-Title of the Ballad of Beau Brocade, 1892. From the originals in the possession of Mr. A. T.A. Dobson

      * PEN-SKETCH (TRIPLET), by the same, on a Flyleaf of Peg Woffington, 1899

      EVELINA AND THE BRANGHTONS, by the same. From the Cranford Evelina, 1903

      LADY CASTLEWOOD AND HER SON, by the same. From the Cranford Esmond , 1905

      MERCERY LANE, CANTERBURY, by the same. From the original pencil-drawing for Highways and Byways in Kent , 1907

      The originals of the illustrations preceded by an asterisk are in the possession of the Author.

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