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 A PIONEER GATHERING OF BOOKS 
 
 OF A 
 
 SENTENTIOUS CHARACTER, 
 
 COMPRISING 
 
 PROVERBS, PARABLES, SAGE SUMMARIES AND SAWS, 
 
 BEING THE CONTENTS OF 
 
 THE LOG SHANTY BOOK-SHELF 
 
 FOR THE YEAR 1893, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 PIONEER'S LODGE, EXHIBITION PARK, 
 TORONTO, 
 
 TORONTO: 
 THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY (LIMITED) PRINTERS, COLBORNE STREET. 
 
 1893- 
 
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PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. 
 
 In the great dearth of general literature in these parts in the old pioneer days 
 any books or pamphlets which furnished forth a supply however scanty of pro- 
 verbs, pithy sa.ings, aphorisms and similitudes, were very acceptable to any one 
 having the least inclination for reailing and study. Such expressions seemed 
 always to contain so much in so small a compass. The local almanac generally 
 supplied a few proverbs, adopting occasionally the style and even the language of 
 Franklin's " Poor Richard" ; sometimes the local newspaper furnished a few, even 
 when its columns in other respects were very scantily si. oplied. These were all 
 conned over with gratitude in tiie absence cf other matter for consideration. 
 With homely primitive folk a small stock of proverbs is fo md to be very useful in 
 many emergencies of the head, heart and hands. In short, the compact set of 
 sayings thus stored up migiit be compared to the old-fashioited pocket-knife which 
 young lads aforetime were so proud to possess, containing in its handle besides 
 several blades a great variety of little implements — a corkscrew, button-hook, 
 gimlet, tumscrew, tweezers, pincers, fleam or lancet, Ac. Don Quixote, when a 
 copy was secured, of course became a favorite, especially for the sake of the utter- 
 ances of hir. garrulous companion. IJunyan's Pilgrims' Progress and even Robin- 
 son Ousoe came to be especially valued for the sake of the many aphorisms con- 
 tained therein. Solomon's bock of Proverbs was easily accessible and became 
 more and more appreciated, as also were the many sententious conclusions to be 
 observed in Ecclesiastes, the Psalms and other books of the Bible. Even the apo- 
 cryphal books began to be examined for the sake of the sayings of the wise son of 
 Sirach. In point of fact the whole Hible had assumed more or less of a sententious 
 appearance since the days of the famous French printer, Robert Stephens, to whom 
 is due since 1556 the modern familiar divisions of chapter and verse. From every 
 line of Scripture, whether embracing an aphorism or not, the commentator, Matthew 
 Henry, could draw pious conclusions. To him, happily, the familiar words of the 
 psalm were a reality : — 
 
 " The judgments of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether. 
 
 " More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold, sweeter also 
 than honey and the honey-comb. 
 
 " Moreover, by them is thy servant taught, and in loeeping of them there is great 
 reward." 
 
 But it was from the Proverbs of Solomon that Matthew Henry's deductions 
 always seemed especially inviting and instructive, rendering the contemplation of 
 the whole charactsr of Solo'non and his comprehensive grasp of all things most 
 interesting. It was not on.y in the area of Palestine but throughout all the regions 
 
THE LOO SHANTY BOOK-SHELP FOR 1893. 
 
 of the East that Solomon's fame as an author of sententious wisdom prevailed in 
 the olden time as well as in the present day. .Solomon's wisdom, we are told, 
 (i Kings iv, 30) excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all 
 the wisdom of I'-gypt. 
 
 " For he was wiser than all men ; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and 
 Chalcol and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all nations round 
 about. 
 
 '* And he spake three thousand proverbs, and his songs were a thousand and five. 
 
 " And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the 
 hyssop that sjjringeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of 
 creeping things, and of fishes." 
 
 No wonder, then, that the written relics still extant of the wise king took a 
 strong hold on the youthful imagination and numerous books allied thereto in 
 style and spirit began soon to be collected. 
 
 Sometimes an antiquated English dictionary in use in the house, a bit of salvage 
 from the home in the old country, was found to contain proverbs as well as mere 
 words, and was prized accordingly. This was the case with Nathan Kailey's Dic- 
 tionary, and at a little later period with Maunder's, each page of which was gar- 
 nished on its four sides with proverbs. Ordinary school books also furnished a 
 few pithy precepts, and, as time went on, in the old district grammar school, first 
 under Dr. Strachan, then under Mr. Armour and then under Dr. Piiillips, (its 
 curriculum embracing Latin and elementary Greek) the grammar and other class 
 books abounded in aphoristic matter, furnishing to some young minds much food 
 for thought. Tae Greek Delectus and the Latin Delectus, in fact, consisteil of 
 brief excerpts from writers of note, and appended to the ever-to-be-remenil)ered 
 Lexicon of Schrevelius were copious collections of Greek moral sentences including 
 the sayings of the seven sages of Greece. The mottoes subjoined to coats of arms 
 in heraldic books likewise attracted attention, as also did the curt Latin sentences 
 attached to printers' devices in title pages, emblems, irapresas, &c. 
 
 In the case of the gatherer of these specimens, even before the migration from 
 the old land, his childish ear was captivated by the shrewd sayings, maxims and 
 tales of one known as a wise man or wizard, over the whole country-side in the 
 neighborhood of the very rustic villages of Dunkeswell and Luppit, in Devonshire, 
 Jan Baker as he was called, whose intellectually- formed head might under other 
 conditions have been that of a divinity professor ; while subsequently after the trans- 
 fer across the Atlantic it was his lot to come within earshot of the talk of another 
 primitive character who was ever formulating phrases and rules of conduct such as 
 would at a later period have been not unworthy of Artemus Ward, Mr. Joshua 
 Hillings, or Abraham Lincoln himself, and giving those in contact with him the 
 benefit of the same ; and this was a curious hermit of a man dwelling in a sort of 
 cave, on the banks of the Don, in a portion of what is now Riverside Park. Early 
 settlers will remember Joseph Tyler, a mysterious stray squatter here from the 
 
THE LOG SHANTY BOOK SHELF POK lf1>X 
 
 Sontli«Ti» Mates, who acte<l as ferryman on his own account, at -tlbn. point of the 
 rirer. fcy nneans of a large canoe constructed by himself, formed uf Twn> loni; logs, 
 hoUowvd lOttt and dovetailetl together. To the very succeHsful cuhrA-irjuii of melon. 
 aad anitt, it may he remarke<l in passing, Tyler addrd thai or tiu liojico) plants 
 U»d«r Tan<tl stimulants of the kinds descrilied the taste for hein*su;i us literature 
 wa«e«3t«ti and sustaineil. and the foihie thus early indulged c'in:;uuei a:ently to 
 adiRft, and was humoretl from time to time, and to this day a liwiii .rf -isnr^ sum- 
 marir- i-r[ aphoristic conclusions is enjoyetl. Thus commenced, iSir (inflection was 
 cat£iCig^_i'.:. and thus it grew to its present dimensions. 
 
 LxxAong at the vast heritage of |^acked and preserved practical -niiHibm. which we 
 ha*e in mch form derived from our forefathers, it is to be hcifwd siiar whatever 
 devclcfoients in this direction may hereafter take place wiihiu lit •iiincis of our 
 foong ITominion, and whatever institutions and policies anuiugm ui jukk be ba.sed 
 thotsBjMjmi. they will be such as shall be worthy of t le greal suti imlerstanding 
 uaiiuat firom whom we have sprung. 
 
 \ E. S. 
 
 ToBOJtTO. September, 1 893. 
 
SENT F. NT 10 us BOOKS. 
 
 A COLLECTIOM BF.i;l N AT YoRK, U. C. (TORONTO), 182I. 
 
 I. EARLY ( HANCl. KIM< 
 
 .loJ), Psalms, ('aiiti< let and Provrrhit of Solomon. IJuinfay, Bri(fhtlj, 1812. tjuarto. With 
 wiiiit l>rief nott-s by Matthew Henry- 
 
 Soii(f of Solomon. Metrirai temion of. I»n(lon. 
 
 Solomon. ProverU». Ecrleaiaxtnt, (?aiiti(lott. Done into Crt-ek verHe by .lamex l>u)>ort. (.'am- 
 briilge : Roarer l>aniel, l!i46. • 
 
 CoNtaiio. {..atin translation of the Psalnif. Ilvle, 1547. 
 
 Psalms of David. In Latin and (;reek. Translated by Suere Du Plan. Paris : I'hilij) Dinis. 
 Pierres, 178<;. 
 
 Psalni!) of I>avid. Clement Marofn venion. (In French.) Charenton, 1642. 
 Sternehold & Hopkins. The Rooke of PitaliiM in Kn;rlish meetiT, with apt notes to sinjf tlipin 
 withal. IX)ndon : Company of Stationeni, 1C16. .\nother copy dated l(i22. 
 Bay State Psalm Book. 1640. 
 
 Specimen ^dven p. 114 Parker's Psalmody of the Church. New York. 
 Alao, the Manjuiti of Lome's version of the Psalms. 
 
 Minor Prophets. Explanatory version of. By the Rev. Edward Barlee. London : Pickerinj;, 
 1839. 
 
 Apocalyi»st' Popularly Explained. liOndon : Wertheim, 1851. 
 
 The City of Cod. An Interpretation of The .\|K)calyj)se. London : Parker, 185(». (The 
 author was the Rev. E. Budye. of I.auncells, Cornwall, Rntrland.) 
 
 Cleaver. A Briefe Explanation of the Whole Itooke of the Proverbs of Salomon. Py Robert, 
 Cleaver. At Lor.'lon : Imprinted h\ Felix Tyiiirston for Thomas Man and Rojfer .Jackson, l()l,''i. 
 With Cleaver i< a«$sO(.Mated a divine n:tmed Dod. Their quaint lan^'uajji'e is .as follows : — " We 
 have waded throujrh the hooke, or rather have swomme over it, for it is so profounde anddeeiM- 
 with ]>erfect e.xcellencie that neither we or any man else can dive to the Ijottom of it. Salomon 
 himself was far too low of stature and not tall enough in unde rstandini; even to stand in it and 
 hold up his head above the ^>y!itical waters of admirable wisedom, although his tongtii' <lid 
 speake it and his hand penne it." tjuarto, limp \elluni cover. 
 
 APOCRYPHAL HOOKS. 
 
 Tobit, Judith, Esther, Book of Wioloni, E<c lesiasticus. Banish, Daniel, Maccaljees. (In 
 Greek.) From the press of Plantin, l(il2. 
 
 Apocrypha (with wood cuts.) Ola.sirow : Murray. 
 
 Gospel of The Twelve Patriarchs. Translated from the Greek by Grostete Bishop of Lin- 
 coln. London : For the Co. of Stationers, 1634. Black letter. Woodcuts. 
 
 Maimonide^. Booi of Precepts. (Hebrew and English.) Edinbunjh : Youn^f. 
 
 Rules for Hmnan Conduct. (In English and Hindostani.) Madras, 1812. 
 
 The Phenix. .\ncient Pn<ment8 from the Chinese, Persian, PhiBniuian, Punic, Greek and 
 Latin (Confucius Zoroaster Pablius Synis.) New York : Gowan, 1335. 
 
 Le Goran, Traduit De LWrabe, Accompaime de Notes et Pr6c(ide D'un AbriSi?6 de la vie de 
 Mahomet, tir^ des Ecrirains Orientaux \en plas estim^. Par M. Savary. A Amsterdam, Leide- 
 Rotterdam. Utrecht. 1796. 
 
TIIK LOO SHANTY BOOKSHELF FOR 1893. 
 
 EraHiniig. Ailn^iu. Hanover: Wechel, 1.^17. Folio. 
 
 Kraiiiiius. Ailaifia, or I'roverlxt. Blami'M Selei-tioa. Two toh. l»ndon, IStl. 
 
 KriMiiiiis. Ili.i .\|><)thc;;htii4, Tranitl«t«<l b\ NM-hoUi' IVIall (l.VM.) Kepriiit. Boston 
 
 Liricoliiithiri- : KolitTf KcdK-rtH, 1877. 
 
 EraMimis. A]>otlH'i{hins of the Aiicienfai. London : Millar, 17.'Ki. 
 
 I*. Loiiittanl. Hit Sentern-en. (I^tiii). Veriic-e : l>e SfHr*. H7T. Folio, lilack letter. 
 Thoiiia>< A<|<iinai<. On the lifxtk at Sentences. (Commentary on the |»r«'i>e<linvr work.) Venice •' 
 .K'MKon, Itsl. Kolio. Illack letter. 
 
 An universal Ktvnioloifical KiuliHh l)iotion»r>- B> X. B»il\, l>hiloloirn«. (In (ireek thorao. 
 tern.) Lonilon : I'rinterl for mnnerniut booktiellers nwiioi, 1775. The twenty-flnit editicn of this 
 n<lniiralile and uonipreheiHive work, one »uh<li*ii«ion o< which ronsistit of " A Collection of our 
 most Cuniinoti I'roverlis, with explications »ii<l illuiitrations." 
 
 I*. K. V. Itoiste. iHctonnuirt- Cniverstl IH: La Lansue Frant^aiae. Paris: Verdifcre, 1819. 
 Nninerou.s French aphorisinw occur in the intresot thia work 
 
 H<-hreveliu8. Lexicon. (Greek and I.Atkn.) A<ir1«*l is a co|mi us collection of Proverlw and 
 Moral Sentences in Greek and Ijitin. .Vew Vork : Ea^hum, ^irk S Co. Bookstores : Wal 
 utreet, 1814. The imprint in Latin of this eai-U- Xew York cU.«i< J puMication is curi.»us. It 
 reads as follows :—" Novi Kls)raci. lini>e!K,;i Eartlium, Kirke et Soc. Apud cameras litera- 
 rias. Wall street, 1814." (Wall street has not >)?en latinized.) 
 
 Charron. On Wisdom. (In French.) Amsteidam: Louis S I>aiiiel Elzev ier, 1602. Enifraved 
 
 Title. 
 
 Charron. Of Wisdome. Translate*! l>v Sanvon Lennard. London : Robinson, 1070. 
 
 Feltham. Resolves— Divine, Moral and Pjhtical. London : To be 8old at the Tyler's Head 
 in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1084. 
 
 Hisho|> Mall. Meditations. Il^i^ord : Bt-lknap. liOS. 
 
 Geo. Huifhes. Aphorisms on The Sabliath (1<)70.) Penheale Press, near Launceston, Corn- 
 Mall, 1841. 
 
 .1. James, of PeterlK)rou}fh. A Comment on the CoHects. London. First e<lition. The Col- 
 lects of the National Church are the source of many sententious expressions in the Eniflish 
 lant;uau'e. 
 
 Camden. Remaines Conceminff Britaine, 4cc. (Included are " Wise Speeches, Proverl>s and 
 Poesies.") London; John Le^'att, Printer, 1614. 
 
 Camden. Remains Conceniintr Britain. J. RosBell Smith's reprint, with fine portrait. 
 London, 1870. 
 
 Meres' Wit's Commonwealth. Three vols. London ; F. Smethwick, .Saint Dunstan's Chun-h- 
 yanl under the Diall, 11)98. 
 
 Verstetn^n. Restitution ot Decayed Intelli^nce Cooceminsf the Cnj^lish Nation. London : 
 John Bill, 1028. 
 
 Thomas a Kempis. The Christian Pattern. Translated by Luke Melbourne. London : 
 Abel Rojjer, at The Black Boy, and Roger Clavel, at The Peacock, in Fleet street, 1697. 
 
 Dictes and Wise Sayinjfs of the Philosophers. (Oxton Facsimile). Supposed to have l>een 
 the first production of Caxton's press at Westminster, 1477. 
 
 H. Cornelius AifripiKi. On the Incertitude and Emptiness ot Human Sciences. (Latin.) He 
 cites over 100 iiistances. An early surreptitious copy of Graphaeus' first edition, .\iitwerp, 
 1630. (Portrait.) 
 
 J. Owen. Epigrams (in Latin.) Political, Ecclesiastical and (General. Amsterdam : Janson, 
 1637. 
 
THE LOG SHANTV BOOK-8IIBLF FOR 1893. 
 
 Txblt Ji\k. Two vols. Kepriiiteil trom IWH'n edition, I6itt |»it<ion 
 
 ICoHununcit. (Tbeolntfii-al To|>ic!«.) UohU. 156«i. 
 
 , or Britoin's S«coii<i Keiiifiiibrancer. K«li)fiou» i'oenut. lUrpriot. 
 i <taith, 1967. i'ortnit. 
 
 Th« Temple. SacrttI Pocidh and Private Ej»<-u1ationi>. Tenth clition. 
 I hf John Williaia'* in ('rrxv* Xl-v Court in Little Britain. Iti7l. Portrait. 
 
 Gtjorg* i lt f W rt. The Temple, Ac. (.\ fac-niniile reprint of the flr^ edition.) (.:ainbn<i|fe : 
 I *f} TVmmm Bt»k aiyl Rover Daniel, liI3-.>. 
 
 The Temple, ««•. With Tlie Priest To the Temple, or The Countr>- Pftraon. 
 B0»ry WMbboume, slalisliury .S*(uare, 1838. 
 
 rc*kc!* ami Workes. Tran>*late<i Ity Joxhtia Sylvester. London, I(iu6. 
 
 ^'« Smht* And .Sonnets. (Al(re<l KiiSHell Sniith't* (av-itimile reprint of the edition of 
 MM) AiMmI M« 'ii]hert'<t illa-itratiomt. liOmion : Sani|won, I»w. 
 
 J. ¥»fwt CnKar. The PoeticAl Decameron. (Ten Converaation* on the Poet4 of the rei}rn» 
 <tf eSabrtliawl J«B«c».) Two vols. E^linburirh : Constable S Co., ItfJO. 
 
 F. tfmattgt.. EMbfeoM. BrMtol. liMK Cuts on copiier. 
 
 F. < |« iri i » Jm^mrnt and Mercy for Afflicted Souk). London : Lon^rmau, l9U7. Fine Por- 
 trait. 
 
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 W.'VTAy* PILGRIMS PROGRESS. 
 
 I. EditMW 4« 1748. (27tfa edition.) I»ndon ; W. JohnHtoii, at the Uctden Ball in St. Pauls 
 
 CVorriiiiinL 
 
 i. EnfiDOB fli 17H4. (Tbe31irt edition.) lx)ndon : W. Johniiton The Golden Ball, Ludvatc 
 Mrert. 
 
 X EditMB d :7T3i. London : E. .Johnston, 16 Ludgate Street 
 
 4. EfilioM d 1779. Cfaawcow : J. Robertwn. 
 
 h. FtStiim d litl. (The Elstow edition, with numerous iIhi8tration<>.) London : John 
 WalkitT. FmifHiw Street. 
 
 Tbe «o«cn«f ttii Tohime are made of (tortiona of the oak tinilier taken out of the church at 
 ESsKKw. tkeMamUmn, the birthplace of Bunyan, previous to its restoration in l!^>. Prefixe<l is 
 as ««waT eaiitlcd. ** Joha Banyan ; A Study." 
 
 tSmiytm. PSxtim'i Proi^Te^. Fao-simile reprint of flrst edition, (1678.) liOitdon : Elliot 
 
 Diiistf EoBibieiBii. or Temporal Things Spiritualised, &c. By John Bunyan. London : Bickers 
 * Sott. Ffjt tike tHK of children. Numerous quaint wood cuts. 
 
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 Aim. a Rfnot d Arthur Dent's Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven. Belfast. 1850. 
 
 Doa <imxmt fra SpanLih.) Madrid : .Mateo de la Bastida, 1668. (^arto. Sancho Panza's 
 paaiaa v*«te art bet* to he seen. 
 iMMf^nwCe. (b French.) 3 vols. Paris: Barbin, 1681. Engraved title pa^es. 
 SMoQetf s Translation. Two vols, 32nio. London, Xohle. 
 D B(»capie. Translateri from the Spanish by Thomasina Ro^. lx>ndoD : 
 A defence of Don Quixote. 
 
 FUhlca. Translated into English verse by J. Davies from Comewall. Lewis's edi- 
 I : Loekwood, liO). Babrius was a Greek ; .Csop was largely indebted to him. 
 
THE LOO SHANTY BOOK sHEIF FOR 1893. 
 
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 The KiililcH o( Pil|m.\ . An liiilian Philoicpher. C'ontaininir a riumbor o( pxrellfnt nilcf (or 
 tlitM'oiKliict of |H-r!4uii>< of all act'«, (In Kiiuli*h.) S«-vi'iitv coiiin-qil.tt)- enifravinKii. Lomloii ; 
 Kiviii^ftoii, lA>ni{ii)an, Ac., 178)>. I'ilpay wm the oritnnal of .tlM>|iaii<l I'bn-'lriis. 
 
 Kho]>'s Kalileri. TrniiNlAtHl liy L'KotntnKe. (ThcMK of i'*artanfluw. Aniniiaiuui, Poiofiuii, Ac, 
 are adiiiMl.) I»iidon : Hrown, IT'J4. 
 Csop'M KahleH. Clarke's TraiiHliitioii. iMililin : Powell, X'Si. 
 
 PhflBilruH. Hin Translation of Kttojm KuMi-x info Ijitin. With copiHTi'lrtfe illunf rations. 
 Amst«>r(iikni : .lunRon, 1007. On the Itack of the title |nm^' in the hook-plate of Trinity Colleice 
 l.ihrarv, Cainhridi^e. 
 
 PhtixIrUM. r'ableH. BnwIley'M e<litioh. I^milon : A. .1. Valp>, 1838. 
 
 Venilaniiana. Kxcer])t8 from Kacon. l.on<ion : U. hntioo. 1^*3. 
 
 Ijonl Ikiion. Fahten of The Ancients, in Philo-tophy, Moia •!>• and Civil Policy. Illi|»trate<t 
 and cxplaine<l. Ix>ndon : .M. .lunex, ISoS. Bol<l wood cut*. 
 
 Ia Fontaine. Fahles. (CutH.) New York : Lot-kwood, lilT. 
 Fables. Wilkie. No title \klmv. Entfravinifs on i-opper l>y W »le d: Simj**"'! 
 (iay's Fahles. (With numerous w<xhI cuts.) London, l5l6. 
 Gay. Fables. Illustrated. [/>n(lon : Koutle<t|fe, lt>57. 
 Fable of the Bees. London ; .lonson, ITi.^. 
 
 Mochiavelli. Works. Farneworths Translation. L ndon : Da%.e«, ••::. 
 Ideal Connnonwealths. Phitan h's Ly<'urinii, Cani|ianella s City of the Sun. iixil'% Mundus 
 Alter et Idem, &c. vii-^''"*-) Lon^lon : Koutledire, 1"^T6. 
 Fuller's Worthies. Orijdnal edition. l6fl-2. With portrait*. 
 F^iller's Holy and Profane State. London : William Pickerintr, 1840. 
 Kovfers' Kssay on Thomas Fuller. Ix^mlon : lx>ii;niian, li.iC. 
 Thomas Fuller. Oo«l Thoughts in Mad Times, \-c Liverpool : Hon ell, 186:). (Portrait) 
 
 Wise Words and (juaint Counsels of Thomas Fuller. Sele<'ted nnd arran)fe<l, with a short 
 sketch of the author's life, by Au^iistus Jessojt, D.D., Rector of Scaminif, Norfolk. Oxford: 
 At the Clarendon Press, 18W. 
 
 John .S|»encer. Thinsfs New and Old. A storehouse of illustrations. F'roni the edition of 
 1«58.) Atlded is Robert Cawd ray's Treasury of Simile. From the e<lition of 1600. London; 
 Dickinson, 1868. Kxhaustive looks on their esjiecial siibjects, up to their respective dates. 
 
 Cicero. .Selected Thoughts from his Writin(;s. London : New ber>-,at the Bible and Sun, 1751. 
 
 Seneca. Whole Works. (I«atin.) Leijwic, 18.53. 
 
 Seneca's .Morals. L'Kstnini.'e's Translation. Philarlelphia, 1<<34. 
 
 Seneca's Morals ; V)y way of Abstract. To which is added a discourse under the title of 
 An After-Thought. By Sir Rojjrer L'EstrauK'e, Knt. .\ new edition. London : Sherwood, 
 Neely and Jones, Paternoster How, 1818. 
 
 Plato. His Repu)>lic. Translate<l into En^rlish by Llewelyn Davies and D. Vaughan. Cam- 
 bridge : University F'ress, 1866. 
 
 Plato's Apology of Socrates. Translated into Ent'lish by the R»v. Joseph .Mills. With notes 
 and an appendix by the translator. Canibrid^re : J. Archdeacon, I'i'i). (Rev. W. Barnes' copy. 
 
 The Works of Talhaiarn. (In Welsh and Enitlish.) Ix>ndon : H. Williams. (Rev. W. Barnes) 
 copy.) 
 
 Epictetus. Enchiridion. (In Greek and Ijitin.) The fabic of Cebes added. Leyden, 1670. 
 
 Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Translated from the Greek by Jeremy Collier and .\lice 
 Zimniem. London : Walter .Scott. (Camelot Series.) 
 
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 Hierocles. On the Golden verses of Pythaaroris. Translated by Needham. Canibridjjre : 
 Acodeinii- Press, 1709. 
 
 Funeral tlulogies. Extracts from Thuc\ dides, Plato, Lysias and Zenophon. (In the oriirinal 
 Greek.) Oxford : At the Theatre, Isfis. 
 
 T. Taylor. Political Pythaiforean Fnu^mentf. (In Eiifflish.) Chiswick, WhittinKhain, 1822. 
 
 T. Taylor. The Rhetoric, Poetics and Etl.ics of Aristotle. (l!i English.) London : Black, 
 
 1818. 
 
 Aristotle. De Arte Poetica. With Latin translation. Glasgow : Foulis, 1745. 
 
 Horace. The Odes and Satires trarslatefl into English by eminent poets. (The " Art of 
 Poetry" is by the Earl of Roscommon.) London: Jacob .Jonson, at Shakespeare's Head, over 
 against Katherine-street in the Strand. 1721. 
 
 Bagot. Poetic Translation of Horaces .\rt of Poetry. Edinburgh, Blackwood. 
 W. Smith's Translation of Longinus on The Sublime. London : Printed in 1756. (Contains 
 autograph of James Sanson, the "Dominie Sanii)<<on " of Walter Scott.) 
 Caius Sallustius Crispus. Works (in I^tin.) Paris : David, 1744. Sententious historian. 
 Caius Sallustius Crispus. Works (in Latin.) London: Longman, 1835. 
 
 Sallust. Edited for schools by C. Merivale. Cambridge : Macmillan, 1851. C. Merivale 
 quotes Seneca's expression, amputatce nententiof, used in reference to Salusts' abrupt and anti- 
 thetical turns of thought. 
 
 Tacitus. Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 166.'>. (Engraved title-page.) Sententious historian. 
 
 Tacitus. Leyden F, Raphelengius, 1600. 
 
 Anthologia Graeca. In the original. 3 vols. Leipsic : Tauchnitz, 1820. 
 
 G. R. Tomson. Selections from the Greek Anthology. Brief sentences in English from 
 Siinonides, Bion, Meleager, Mosehu*. Theocritus, iSc. London : Walter Scott. 
 
 Klores et Sententiae. (Choice extracts from Latin authors.) Amsterdam : Janssonius 
 Waesbergios, 1713. 
 
 Ramage. Beautiful Thoughts, from Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German and Spanish 
 authors. Liverpool : Howell, 1S69. 
 
 Boethius. On the Consolation of Philosophy. (In Latin.) Annotated by Callejus. Paris: 
 Roulland, 1680. 
 
 The original quarto Delphin edition. The engraved title-jiage shows a large dolphin attracted 
 by the music of Amphion, who is seen s]>ringing from a ship into the water with a lyre in his 
 hand. Above is the legend, " Trahitur dulcedine cantun," the allusion being to the imjires- 
 sion supposed to be made on the Dauphin {Delphinm, dolphin) by the ancient classical writings 
 when presented attractively by such qualified editors as those of the Delphin Classics. Below 
 is a medallion of Boethius with his name inscribed. 
 
 Another copy of the same work in English translated by Viscount Preston. 
 
 Huetiana. Divers Thoughts of Mons. Huet. (In French.) Amsterdam, 1793. Huet was 
 editor-in-chief of the Delphin Classics. 
 
 Conrad Lycosthenes. Apothegms. (From approved Greek and Latin writers.) Geneva : 
 Crispin, 1633. 
 
 Ferdinandus Abduensis. Ferdinand de .\bdua. Epigrams. (In Latin.) Venice: Aldus, 1546. 
 
 Reusner's Emblems. (Old cuts and bonlers. ) Stra.sbourg, 1567. 
 
 Andreas Alciatus. His Emblems Complete. (In Latin.) Antwerp : Christopher Plantin, 1577. 
 (213 woodcuts.) 
 
 Another copy of the same work from Plantin's press, but dated 1581. 
 
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 The Holbein Society's reprint of Alcuti EmMematuni Flumen Abundans, 1501. (Alciat's 
 Emblems in their full stream.) Mancheicter : Brothers, 1:^1. 
 
 The Holbein Society's reyirint of Ak-iati Kmf >matum Fontes Quatuor, 1,522. (The Four 
 Fountains of the Emblems of Alciat, 15^) Mancheiter: Brothers, 1870. Added is a copy of 
 Mr. G. G. Sear's privately printed list of the numerous editions of Alciati contained in his 
 library, New York, 1888. 
 
 Theophiastua. Ethical characters. Greek and Latin. Leyden : Maire, }6^'i. 
 
 Theophrastus. Characteres Ethici. (In Greek and Latin.) Oxford, 1680. 
 
 Theophra.stus. Ethical Characters. (Greek and Latin.) Oxford, 1780. 
 
 Theophrastus. His Characters. (In Englisb ) With o|it'ine illustrations. Ix)ndon : A. ■). 
 Valpy, 1831. l 
 
 Hermippus Redivivus. Rules for Serwing Lonarevity. Lmdon: .J. Nourse, 1749. (Ro<rer 
 Bacon's Ideas are given, pasre SO.) 
 
 Bayle St. John. Montaiirne, the Es3a>ist. Two rob. London : Chapman & Hall, 1?5S. 
 
 *' Aids to Reflection." By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. With the author's last corrections ; 
 edited by Henry Nelson Coleridfre. To whiofa is prefixed a preliminary essay l)y J ohn McVicar, 
 D.D. New York : Swords, SUnford dc Co. 
 
 Table Talk of Samuel Taylor 0)lerid)fe. With an introduction by Henry Morley. London : 
 George Routledge & Sons. A Ofilleclion of the remarks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his own 
 •words as in the course of casual conversations on the subject of Church and State and general 
 Philosophy in England. 
 
 New Version of the Psalms of David. Br Joseph Cottle. London: Longman, 1801. (S«l>- 
 joined.)— Poems by Joseph Cottle. Bristol, 1796. 
 
 Basil Montagu. Selections from the works of Taylor, I.dtimer, Hall, Milton, &c. London : 
 Pickering, 1839. 
 
 A.. Introduction to True Wisdom. John I/xiis \"ives. (In Latin.) Dublin : Geonre Grier- 
 flon, 1730. (This little l>ook contains an aatop^ph of Ba.^1 Montagu) the compiler of the well- 
 knowti selections from Taylor, I..atimer, 4c,, and editor of Ba<.-on's works. 
 
 Basil Montagu. Selections from the Works of Taylor, I^timer, Hall, Milton, &c. New York 
 Wiley & Putnam, 1845. 
 
 Southey's Omniana. Two vols. London : I>m^inan. 1312. 
 
 Southey's Conunonplace Book. T»o voU. Sew York : Harper. 
 
 The Dialogues of Ludo'ico Domeniehi. (In Italiar.) Venice : Gabriel Giolito of Ferrari, 
 1562. Robert Southey's copy, given him by Walter Savage Landor, as recorded in the 
 autograph inscription : " Rol)ert Southey from Walter Savage Landor, Keswick, 30th Nov., 18-21." 
 
 Ouicciardini. Ma-xims. (In English.) with panages from Machiavelli, Bacon, Pascal, A:c 
 London : Longman, 1845. 
 
 Lavater. Ay>horisms on Man. London : J. .lohnson, 1794. 
 
 Zimmerman. Apho risms and Reflections. Lood-on ; Vemor & Hood, &c., 1800. (Portrait.) 
 
 Blaise, Pascal. Provincial Letters, Thoosfats and Opuscules. Two vols. Edited by O. W. 
 Wright. New York : Derby, 1861. 
 
 C. C. Colton. Lacon : or, Many TWng? in Few Words. Addressee! to those who think. 
 London ; Longm.ui, 1':22. Included is " Hjiwcrisy : a Satire. " By the Rev. C. Colton, Fellow 
 •of King's College, Cambridge. 
 
 Colton's Lacon. New York : Kearney, 153(5. 
 
 Lacon. Oowans edition. New York, linen. 
 
 John Taylor's Manual of I at-onics. London : J. B. Taylor, 1838. 
 
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 C- ^mmoiM' Laconic Manual. Toronto : Robert Dick, Yonge Street, 185-2. 
 
 The World's Laconics, or Best Thouj^hts of the Best Authors. New York 
 
 T»yom Edwards. 
 Dodd, US& 
 
 RoctoefwicaaM and Other French Writers. 
 dam : Pjerre Mortier, 1705. 
 
 Reflections and Maxims. (In French.) Amster 
 
 Rocbcfcocauld. MaxiniH and Moral Reflections. (In English.) New York : Worthington. 
 
 Italian Prnverfus. (In Italian.) Venice : Bendetti Miloco, 1676. 
 
 The Viri niustrea of Flavius Vegetius Renatus. Leyden : John Maire, 1644. 
 
 Fnslilini Facetiae. (Latin.) Title-page wanting. Date 1507. 
 
 H. Home. Art of Thinking. With maxims and illustrations. Edinburgh : W. Creech, 1789. 
 
 AphorisDis and Maxuns. Wants title. Not modern. 
 
 ReflMtiions. (French Promotion of Simplicity, &c.) La Hayes, 1778. 
 
 f »*«aW fKkes. Moral Reflections upon Select English Proverbs. London : Sawbridge, at the 
 llirMGtiMen Flower-de- Luces in Little Britain. Bickerton : at the Golden Flower-de-Luce in 
 St. Paal'« Churchyard, and Bragge : at the Raven in Pater-Noster-Row, 1708. 
 
 MaMo on Self-Knowledge. London : Buckland, 1769. 
 
 " Tboo^ts in the Forms of Maxims. " Addressed to Young Ladies on their first establish- 
 ment in the world. By the Countess Dowager of Carlisle. London : Cornell, 1789. A lady 
 intimMetr aaaooiated with the family of Lord Byron, whose guardian during his minority was 
 an Earl tA Carlisle. 
 
 R. LkMftdey. Economy of Human Life. (Proverbial sentences throughout.) London : Sher- 
 -Hood. 13*39. Six engravings. Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. 
 
 My Thoo^ht Book. J. P. Thomas. London : Sherwootl, Gilbert & Piper, 1825. Practical 
 Reflexitiofs} on Miscellaneous Subjects connected with public and private life, law, &c. 
 
 Exefnpia Moralia. To be turned into Ijatin. (Sentences from Latin writers.) Eton, 1822. 
 
 Westminster Latin Grammar. London : Longman, 1754. Engraved title-page ; clasiMt. 
 In iMtT editions of the Westminster Latin Grammar are to be seen the following sets of rules in 
 Latin «eiae, all of them partaking of a preceptive proverbial character :— 
 
 Elementa Sanitatis, Ex Libris Medicis 
 
 Elementa Urbanitatis, Ex Scriptis Johannis 
 
 Sulpitii Verulani 
 
 Gulielmi Lilii 
 
 Monita Pedagogica, Sive Carmen de Moribus, ad suos Dieipulos. 
 
 A copy M the Westminster Greek Grammar of 1800 is added. 
 
 ••enkim T. Philipps. A Rational Grammar, with easy rules in English to learn Latin. Pre- 
 pared for the n«e of Prince William Duke of Cimiberland. London : Brotherton, (Sic, 1731, 
 The .&oi!bor of this Rational Grammar provides the pupil not only with the Carmen de Moribus 
 of Li3y Ixiie also with Eletnenta Sanatatis (Rules of Health.) Ex Libris Medicis. (Taken from 
 medical book.'*) and arranged metrically. Likewise with Elementa Urbanitatis (elements of 
 polit«nea») from the writings of John Sulpitius Verulanus, in metrical form. 
 
 In Ri»iliman's well-known Scottish Grammar, shown on a f>.''mer occasion, are to be seen the 
 famoos duticfaa of Dionysius Cato, a stoic rhetorician who flourished at Rome about A.D. 180. 
 Thete diKir:h9 were maxims inculcating wisdom, fortitude, frugality, friendship, and so on.com- 
 mit.^ed to memory by children in the old granunar schools from a very early period and some- 
 times recited by them responsively in Gorydon and Thyrsis fashion by way of amusement. 
 
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 The Phsednis, puMished for the use of the Forms at Eton, was distinguished by the peculi- 
 arity of havinfr prefixed to each fable a popular proverb indicative of the drift of the coniin); 
 story. The Eton I'hiedrus also contains the so-called SententiiT of Publius S.vnis. These con- 
 sisted of a selection of Ononiic lines, taken from the conunonplace l)ook of a famous satirical 
 mimic or improvisatore at Rome in the time of Julius Caesar, Publius Svrus 
 
 Benjamin Franklin. Autobiojjrraphy and Letters. London : Ward, Locke & Co., 1891. (Por- 
 trait.) With this book is place<i a specimen of Franklin's typography. A Dutch book. 
 " Fragen," Philadelphia, 1742. 
 
 Also, Poor Richard's Almanac. Alden, New York. 
 
 The Philadelphia Citizens' Almanack for 1S3-2. 
 
 Ye Earlie Englyshe Almanack. (Rev)rint.) Woodcut illuit -ations. London, Soho. 
 
 Cameron's Upper Canada Almanack, for 1815. Publisheil , t York. U. C. On the title-page 
 are the following lines : — 
 
 Ye who would mend these wicked tin es. 
 
 And morals of the age. 
 Come buy a book half-full of rhymes 
 
 At threepence York per page. 
 It would be money well outlaid. 
 
 So plenty money is. 
 Paper for ])a|>er is fair trade : 
 
 So saith Poor Richard (^uiz. 
 
 Among other rules the following one is to Ik? found l>elow September : "To change sterling 
 into York currency — reduce John Bull to Jonathan." 
 
 And Patrick Swift's Upper Canada Farmers' Almanac for IS34. With these are placed two 
 early productions of the Boston press, viz., two dissertjttioDs by Jonathan Edwards. Boston 
 S. Kneeland, 1765. 
 
 And The Constitution of the United States, with cognate documents. Boston : Printed by 
 Manning & Loring, 1797. 
 
 Freemasonry Exposed and Explained. Showing the origin, history and nature of Masonry, by 
 Captain William Morgan. New York : L. Fitzgerald. The author of this l)Ook mysteriously 
 disappeared in the year 1827, having \teen kidnapped by four men who were duly tried for the 
 offence at Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, and sentenced to imprisonment for various 
 tenns accordingly. 
 
 Alford. Masonic Gem. Consisting of Odes, Poem and Dirge. New York, 1808. 
 
 The Beauties of Washington Irving. With twenty -two illustrations by George Cruikshank. 
 
 London, Tegg. Filled with the wit and v. isdom of Jonathan Oldright, Launcelot Langstaff, 
 Diedrich Knickerbocker, Geoffrey Crayon, &c. 
 
 Jane Taylor. Essays in Rhyme. London : Taylor, 1816. 
 
 Dr. Aikln and Mrs. Barbauld. Evenings at Home. New edition, with one hundred wood- 
 cuts by Dalziel. London : Ward, Locke & Co. 
 
 Percival. A Father's Instructions. Mora! Tales, Fables rnd Reflections. London : J. 
 Johnson, St. Paul's Churchyard, 1784. 
 
 Mrs. Trimmer. Extracts from the Bible. For the use of Schools and Families. London : 
 Rivington. 1827. Stamp of the Christian Knowledge Society on the outside. 
 
 Itinerarium Novi Testamenti : or, The SatTed History and Doctrine of the New Testament, in 
 Question and Answer. By the Rev. C. Browi. London : Printed for the author. Published 
 by W. Clerk, 1785. Addressed to George Prince of Wales. 
 
 A Catechism of Trade and (Commerce. With four other Catechisms. Spechnens of Pinnock ' 
 London : Whittaker, 1821. 
 
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 V\'atkin8' Aneccloteu for Youth. Moral and Entertaining. London : Jones & Co., 1822. 
 Many fine portraits. 
 
 Isaac Watts. Divine Songs. London : J. Buekland, 1777. (First etlition.) 
 
 Isaac Watts. Divine and Moral Songs. (Portrait and copious illustrations.) London : 
 Nisbet. Quarto. 
 
 J. Wesley. .Select Beauties from his Worlts. London : Fielding, &c. No date, 
 
 Ahner Brown. Conversations with Rev. Charles Simeon. London : Hamilton, 1863. 
 
 F'acetiaj Cantabrigienses. Smart Sayings, Satires, Retorts, &c. London : Mason, 18^. 
 (Portrait of Poreon.) 
 
 Art of Pluck. After the majiner of Aristotle. Oxford : Vincent, 1835. 
 
 Riddles, Charades and Rebusses. By Peter I'lizzlewell. London : Newbery, 1796. 
 
 T. Walker. The Original. London : Renshaw, 1838. Sententious Remarks on such subjects as 
 the following : Art of Listening, Country Houses, High Health, Fortune-Telling, Poor Laws, <Sio. 
 
 Thoughts Moral and Divine. Calcott. London : Owen, 1756. 
 
 Materials for Thinking. By an investigator. London : Starle, 1857. 
 
 Extracts and Collections from Various Authors. G. Clarke, Cornhill, 1834. Choice speci- 
 mens of the works of if- lumerable authors of note, British and Foreign, Ancient and Modern. 
 With some remarkable articles from ihe Times newspaper. 
 
 The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1812. An impartial selection of the most ingenious 
 Essays and Jeux D'esprits that appear in the newspapers and other publications. London : 
 Printed for James Ridgway, No. 170 Piccadilly, 1813. Herein are many instances of mal- 
 administration tempered by epigrams. Several of the epigrams are by the Poet Moore. 
 At p. 134 is an allusion to the war of 1812 going on in America. 
 
 II. LATER ADDITIONS. 
 
 Bacon's Essays : With Annotations. By Richard Whately, D.D. Archbishop of Dublin. Fifth 
 edition. London : John W. Parker and Son, West Strand, 1860. 
 
 " A commentary to explain or corrf ct, few writings need less than those of Bacon, but they 
 admit of a call for expansion and development. They are gold-ingots, not needing to be gilt or 
 polished, but requiring to be hammered out in order to display their full value." This is 
 what Whately has here done for Ba ion's Essays. In foot notes, obsolete words and phrases are 
 remarked upon and explained. Thu volume contains 608 octavo pages. 
 
 At page 385 of Whately's life by his daughter is an amusing letter addressed b> him to a 
 friend on Irish affairs at a critical period (1837) into the text of which forty-one English proverbs 
 are appropriately interwoven each with the prefix or suffix Of " As the proverb says. " 
 
 R. C. Trench. Lessons in Proverbs. London : Parker, 1853. 
 
 Trench. Plutarch, Lectures on. London : Macmillan, 1874. 
 
 Guesses at Truth. By Two Brothers. (Julius Charles and Augustus Hare.) Both Series. 
 
 London : Walton and Maherly, 1851. 
 
 Another edition with portraits and memoir of the two brothers. 
 
 Birbeck Nill. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1888. 
 
 Evelyn. Table-talk of Sydney Smith and others. New York : Putnam, 1853. 
 
 Quackenbos. Ancient Literature, Oriental and Classical New Y'ork : Harper, 1878. 
 
 Brief extracts from Philosophers and Poets of the following nations :— Hindoo, Pewian, . 
 Chinese, Chaldean, Semitic, Phoenician, Egyptian, Greek and Roman. 
 
 Henry Taylor. Notes from life. London: J. Murray, 1848. 
 
 Capel Lloft. Self Formation. London : Charles Knight, 1837. 
 
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 Hazlitt. The Round Table. London : Sampson Lov., 1869. (Portrait of Haziitt). 
 
 The Round Table. The Artist. Northcote's Conversations, &c. By William Hazlitt 
 Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. London : Bell and Dalby, 1871. 
 
 Hazlitt. Table Talk. Or Essays on Men and Manners. Ix>ndon : Bell and Dalby, 1^71. 
 
 Wellinjrt'On. Words of. Collected from his Despatches, Letters, and Speeches. Loodoa. 
 
 Sampson Low, 1869. 
 
 Table talk and Opinions of Napoleon Bonaparte. London : Sampson Low, 1870. 
 
 Napoleonic Ideas. By Prince Napoleon LouIm Bonaparte. Brussels, 18;i9. 
 
 W .L. Russell's Book of Table Talk. Selections from the Conversations of Poeis, Philowpbers. 
 Statesmen, Divines, &c. London : George Routledge and Son , 1874. A Separate Chapttr i* 
 devoted to each personage. 
 
 Hain. Friswell. Varia : Readings from Rare books. London : Sampson Low, 1S66. 
 
 Volsunga Saga. Translation from the Icelandic, by Magnusson and Morris. London : Walter 
 Scott, 1888 (Camelot Series). 
 
 Wit and Wisdom of George Mere<lith. Boston : Roberts, 1888. 
 
 " We have chosen and collectetl aphorisms long and short, witty epigrams, idiomatic phrases 
 and philosophical reflections upon life. " 
 
 Lady Lytton. Shells from the Sands of Time. I/ondon : Bickers, 1878. 
 Lewes. Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot. Boston : Roberts, 188<^). 
 
 Haliburton. The Sayings and Doings of Sam. Slick, the Clockniaker. London : Routledge. 
 Bubbles of Canada. By the Author of " Sam. Slick, The Clockniaker," &c. Philadelphia. 
 Lea and Blanchard, 1739. Autograph of Sir Francis Hincks. 
 
 Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau. By an old man (Sir Francis Bond Head). .\ix-La- 
 Chapelle. Louis Kohen, 1857 (Pirated from the London edition.) 
 
 Lowell. The Biglow Pap>ers. London : Ward, Lock. 
 
 I have failed to recover a copy once possessed of C. aelby's Maximums and Specimens 
 
 (approved yellow plush for Maxims and Sentiments.) 
 
 M. F. Tupper. Proverbial Philosophy. London : Ward, Lock & Co. 
 
 M. F. Tupper. Sonnets. London : Hall & Co., 1860. 
 
 Angel Voices, or Words of Counsel. Boston : Ticknor, 1864. (Also first edition of the same 
 work). 
 
 Anna Lowell. See<l-Grain. For Thought and Discussion. Boston : Ticknor, 1855. 
 
 Ward Beecher. Life Thoughts. Edinburgh, 1860. 
 
 Charles Spurgeon. John Ploughman's Talk, or Plain .\d\'ice to Plain People. New York : 
 Reprint. The idea of this work seems to have been derived from Robert Langland's Vision and 
 Creed of Piers Plowman, (A. D. 1359). Two copies of the latter work are in the pr««ent 
 collection ; one, in black letter, " Imprinted at London by Roberte Crowby dwelling in Holbume. 
 The yere of our Lord M.D.L. ;" The other in ino<lern type, printe<l by Pickering, 1642. 
 
 Bronson Alcott. Table Talk. Boston : Roberts, 1877. 
 
 Duncan. CoUoquier Peripatetica. (Theological Conversations.) Edinburgh, 1870. 
 Bone. Intuitions and Summaries of Thought. 2 vols. Boston : 1862. 
 Agogos. Maxims, Experiences and Observations. Boston : Otis, 1844. 
 Gems of Thought. A Thousand Choice Selections or Aphorisms, compiled by Charie» 
 Northend, A.M. New York : Appleton and Co., 1879. 
 Poetry ef the Flowers. " Selected by Mrs. C. M. Kirtland. New York : John B. Aklen, is&L 
 
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 Hook of Table Talk. Two vols, in one. Lontlon : C. Co.\, 1847. 
 
 J. D. Helton. Manual of FnreijnU^uotations, Ancient and. Moflern. New York : Putnam, 18i*l. 
 
 Clouston's Literarj- Curiosities and Eceentricities. (Laconic Sayinjfs, Gems of Thought, ix.) 
 London : \Vard, Lock ic Co. 
 
 DavenjKirt Adams. En^rlish Epigrams. London : Rouiledire. 
 
 Truths Illustrated by jfreat Authors. (A Dictionary of i^'uotations). London : Lockwood, 1883. 
 
 Giles. Poetic Treasures. London : Warrl, Lock. 
 
 Catty. Poems In the Modern Spirit. London : AValter Scott, 1888. 
 
 Moments of Idleness. London : Boone, ls:« 
 
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