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THE LIBRARY.
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tions, provided they are virtuous." There is a set of collectors, alas! whose inclinations are not virtuous. The most famous of them, a Frenchman, observed that his own collection of bad books was unique. That of an English rival, he admitted, was respectable,—"mais milord se livre à d'autres préoccupations!" He thought a collector's whole heart should be with his treasures.
