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...word about Antiquarian Booksellers. If I may generalize, in America they are good business men rather than good bookmen. I know of about two and one half exceptions to this. High rents, high wages, high cost of living have led the American bookseller to specialize in the "high spot" items. An interesting miscellaneous stock does not pay for its keep in this country. The result is to considerably narrow the vision of the bookseller...
...president of the American Historical Association, a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the American Antiquarian Society, and the Illinois Historical Society. He also delivered lectures before Phi Beta Kappa and other organizations at the universities of Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, and Indiana...
Freshman registration has ever been full of interest for the Vagabond and he motored down from the hills yesterday to indulge his hobby. For the Vagabond is a connoisseur, a collector of personalities. Among his subjects he browses as an antiquarian among his antiques. However, and in this the antiquarians, the collectors are more fortunate than the Vagabond, he cannot furnish his den with live or stuffed specimens. In the first place the subjects might object and in the second place too much of a good thing is too much. And so he must content himself with examining his objects...
...scholar, Ghost Man James knows how to link antiquity and horror: many of his spooks are harmlessly buried till a blundering antiquarian stirs them up. If the meddler survives, his invariable rule thereafter is to let sleeping ghosts lie. James sets the scenes of his stories with cunning realism, hearty plausibility; he never needs Bohemia or Walpurgis Night. Imperceptibly the shades thicken; something (it might be a rat) scuffles in a corner; something (it might be the wind) puffs out the curtains; and then...
John Quincy Adams is represented in the collection by "Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets" by Samuel Johnson. A volume on worms, entitled, "A General System of Nature: IV--Worms", by Sir Charles Linne, once belonged to James Monroe. Madison owned a book on antiques, "The Antiquarian Repertory", which is part of the collection. The presidents Jefferson, Garfield, Taft and Harrison all were represented by long books on government, the first named owning a book entitled, "Proceedings of the Government of the United States in Maintaining Public Rights to the Beach of the Mississippi against the Intrusion of Edward...