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Show People 1Vlio Soli Books. Librarians are not the only ones who complain of persons who habitually soil books loaned to them by thumb stains and marginal penciling. That habit is the heaviest cross imposed on dealers in rare and oxpensive books. It is a practice prac-tice with such dealers to send such books out for inspection when requested by those to whom the dealer thinks there is a chance to make a sale. Valuable books often suffer from the piactice. Samuel J. Tilden, while a good buyer of books, was also a great offender in this respect He thought nothing of keeping a book for weeks, making dealers send to him for it several times, and finally returning it thumbed and dog eared, with a message mes-sage that he did not want it. On the whole, booksellers lost nothing through Mr. Tilden, for he did not spare money when a book caught his fancy, and hia library contained many treasures, but at times his whims were costly and vexatious vexa-tious to those who tried to please him. Dealers say that there are many men in this city now to whom his habits Beem I to have been transmitted. New York Times. |