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NOTE. This collection of anecdotes, illustrative sketches, and memorabilia generally, relating to the ever fresh and interesting subject of BOOKS AND AUTHORS, is not presented as complete, nor even as containing all the choice material of its kind. The field from which one may gather is so wide and fertile, that any collection warranting such a claim would far exceed the compass of many volumes, much less of this little book. It has been sought to offer, in an acceptable and convenient form, some of the more remarkable or interesting literary facts or incidents with which one individual, in a somewhat extended reading, has been struck;. | Books and Authors by Anonymous 1 gGGHs ANG Authors Edinburgh w. p. Jlimnit Books and Authors by Anonymous The Project Gutenberg EBook of Books and Authors by Anonymous 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 Books and Authors by Anonymous 2 Title Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches Author Anonymous Release Date November 2 2009 EBook 30396 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOOKS AND AUTHORS Produced by Delphine Lettau and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http TRANSCRIBER S NOTE In the anecdote DISADVANTAGEOUS CORRECTION the point of the tale depends on the difference between an i with a macron long vowel and an i with a breve short vowel These have been represented as i and i respectively. Two changes have been made to the text In the anecdote DR. JOHNSON S CRITICISMS one instance of the word by was deleted from the passage just by by chance . In THE MERMAID CLUB Johnson was changed to Jonson in the passage Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander in his letter to Jonson. Illustration FINDING THE MANUSCRIPT DIARY OF JOHN EVELYN. Page 7. Illustration Edinburgh W. P. Nimmo. BOOKS AND AUTHORS Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches EDINBURGH WILLIAM P. NIMMO. EDINBURGH MURRAY AND GIBB PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY S STATIONERY OFFICE. CONTENTS. PAGE Ale Bishop Still s Praise of 83 A Learned Young Lady 149 Alfieri s Hair 153 Authors Hard Fate of 59 Authorship Pains and Toils of 125 Bad s the Best--Canning s Criticism 50 Beggar s Opera Origin of the 140 Bell Death of Sir Charles 46 Blue-Stocking Club the 10 Boar s Head Tavern East Cheap Relics of 115 Boileau s A Carouse at 147 Bolingbroke at Battersea 112 Bolingbroke his Creed 55 Booksellers in Little Britain 27 Boswell