Show THE BOOK BORROWER NOV hw Cel celet collector lt Hs hav cl alaid wicked type tho the book borrower la Is the worn sworn foe of at the book collector and many stories told of ibe abe pines adopted by abe th latter to lo defend lid ilia treasures treas urea from the vaulta of the borrower is L the collector opposed to the unfeeling wrete wretch who borrows one oae volume out of a serias and forgets to return it this was WAA one of Cole Colt ridges weakness ts f and was so BO pronounced that lamb de described bribed him BH an a maker of odd vol union the late J mae luerle a well known collector once told the present w m rater that when any one cue naked him for the be loan of a single joh illic out of a set ho be alvayd replied that ho he would rather bild him the whole ten tea fifteen or twenty volum of tile the beiles than have them left as aa odd volumes on hla big hands bands william roberts robertn the renowned bibliophile tells tella in ID 1 I 1 lie ho runt book hunter elector la in london that thai the bookplate of 0 a certain french LOI coi lector here bore this text from the parable of the ten tea go rather to them that bell sail and buy for yourselves sir 8 majd ai d ft a man of wit to no an nc fic who mho lamented the difficulty which he bo found in persuading bli big to return the not volumes lumes an abat I 1 b be had bud lent them sir bir your acquaintances I 1 flad d I 1 suppose that it la Is calic much 11 more eaby by it to betalu the booti I 1 thoms her cliL thau than v want but lit n contained la in an ali ingenious P an to limit book bor rowing Is told by J ashby sterry la all the books of a certain cunning will book collector he bo had the price written IV ID plain figures 11 hen any one ablee him for the loan of a book he be lavai Is bly replied yes with pleasure sail looking in tho the volume Tolu roc further adda 1 I bee the price of this ihla wort work Is 1 12 2 gd I 1 or wha whatever tevor it might happen to ad be you tou moy may take it at this figure abich w alch will of course be refunded when the alume la ill returned sir v sit al tor ter scotts scotta plan 11 was its ingenious N lie c he be lent a book from his bis library lie be put in ila place a wooden block bean the name dame of the borrow borrom or aud and the 1 d I lie ite of tho loan m many were the leveled hy by collect collecting ong those v u he bo would borrow or steal ercal their vo volumes lurnes sometimes these were rhymes vir written ritten by students stu denta cs an for tx ex i ample the follow lug abka wa mas lo 10 scribed ascribed upon a let latin I 1 n book used in all ab ardeen university sl SI quisquis this thin little Li bellum per Ph Phoc ob bem per J bomm 1 to tit ni kill II 11 bilm I 1 it II fell him in von troas 1111 i ril ill stick my and teach him to areat lent sty little Li bellum in the library of a famous glasgow eo collector there was recently the copy of scotts of the scottish border welca at oue one time thile to william motherwell and in wilia which the poet had bad inscribed the following v verse william motherwell gays bays tho the work IV 1 11 who ahall gainsay him he that duros daron do it may blay tho the akl dell flay ill hima eon enon moro more violent were more written against the book stellar I 1 in 1 l tho sixteenth t coach century a ben bell books ere allemo axe w were more krecl precious 0 us than now BOW I 1 of ct ovin even A the he modern poet finds it needful to P politely 0 I 1 ile ly to tho the lout lent book my fancy elinan oer thorn them my iny in bomor rr ovela is I 1 bacar in spirit when ry I 1 ea th the kara it abo novels nel th tho th eerily I 1 glod lyond end lost I 1 mourn with sorrow borrow lead andor whorter has it djoe hea ham tho the of tho the lender the louy lady bessie craigmyle NN bo be wrote these lines expresses her gratl rude for tile fact that no one bor rolls poets though that Is not I 1 the opinion of charles Chir lra saylo who alius threatens the bible thief of the liar r lag e of cupid oud find psyche cure aureil 0 it b bo a ho he who robs has m of this book W with 1 tit all hla his race let it bo be A and d brought aliw if so 0 o be b it we was ireat gret for that he ha lil wickedly kedly impiously toot took that mas an others bat are i i oak look at I 1 him dris with dull ea of hote hot and t let 1 I hica waking king bo be W P 11 4 ot 1 I 1 att tto tta cast bajit all ats 1 corao coma wl within the th brook this Is 14 oa as comprehensive a curse as that oer overtook took tho the fated jack jac it dew daw of othelius and as aa ineffectual dundee advertiser |