| Useful and Mighty Things | 25 |
| Liberty and Bad Books | 83 |
| Lamb, Charles (1775-1834). |
| Grace before Books | 1 |
| A Catholic Taste in Books | 17 |
| A Whimsical Surprise | 84 |
| Books with One Idea in Them | 121 |
| When and Where to Read | 130 |
| Proof of good Matter | 170 |
| Out-of-doors Reading | 171 |
| Discrimination in Bindings | 244 |
| The Treasure | 254 |
| The Readers at the Bookstall | 255 |
| To the Editor of The Everyday Book | 269 |
| The Poor Student | 274 |
| Borrowers of Books | 276 |
| The Bodleians of Oxford | 364 |
| Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864). |
| To Wordsworth | 21 |
| 'Well I remember how you smiled' | 57 |
| The Dead alone Canonized | 66 |
| The Classics | 67 |
| To Leigh Hunt | 95 |
| Small Authors Dangerous | 131 |
| Old-Fashioned Verse | 186 |
| Sent with Poems | 202 |
| Safe and untouched | 312 |
| Law, William (1686-1761). |
| Classicus | 66 |
| Poetry and Piety | 209 |
| Leighton, Robert (1822-69). |
| The Libraries of Heaven | 49 |
| Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818). |
| In Paternoster Row | 263 |
| Locke, John (1632-1704). |
| Chewing the Cud | 126 |
| A new Method of a Commonplace Book | 141 |
| Lockhart, John Gibson (1794-1854). |
| The Bible and Burns | 298 |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-82). |
| My Books | 10 |
| 'The sweet serenity' | 20 |
| Bayard Taylor | 234 |
| The Wind over the Chimney | 286 |
| Lowe, Robert, Lord Sherbrooke (1811-92). |
| Remunerative Reading | 39 |
| Lowell, James Russell (1819-91). |
| Security in Old Books | 75 |
| Literature for Desolate Islands | 303 |
| Lyly, John (1554 ?-1606). |
| Fashion in Books | 43 |
| 'Far more seemly were it' | 304 |
| Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Baron (1803-73). |
| The Souls of Books | 22 |
| The Classics always Modern | 68 |
| The Bee and the Butterfly | 143 |
| The Pharmacy of Books | 165 |
| The Library an Heraclea | 329 |
| M., J. (fl. 1627). |
| On the Library at Cambridge | 368 |
| Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord (1800-59). |
| Action and Reaction | 53 |
| The Value of Modern Books | 73 |
| Original Editions | 96 |
| The Critics' Influence on the Public | 117 |
| Classical Education for Women | 207 |
| 'I would rather be a poor man' | 232 |
| Maccreery, John (1768-1832). |
| Bookbindings | 243 |
| Maginn, William (1793-1842). |
| The Booksellers' Banquet | 271 |
| Mallet, David (1705 ?-65). |
| The Reading Coxcomb | 152 |
| Maurice, Frederick Denison (1805-72). |
| The Ultimate Test of Books | 53 |
| The Message of Books | 161 |
| Milton, John (1608-74). |
| Books are not dead things | 47 |
| 'To the pure all things are pure' | 83 |
| Plagiarie | 90 |
| Shakespeare's livelong Monument | 105 |
| 'Deep-versed in Books and shallow in himself' | 157 |
| Tetrachordon | 256 |
| An Ode to Mr. John Rouse (translated by Cowper) | 357 |
| Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855). |
| That invention of the enemy—an Abridgement | 96 |
| Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762). |
| A cheap and lasting Pleasure | 204 |
| Montaigne, Michael Eyquem de (1533-92). |
| John Florio's Translation— |
| The Commodity Reaped of Books | 32 |
| Coats for Mackerel | 44 |
| Transplantation | 90 |
| Inductive Criticism | 122 |
| 'There's more ado to interpret interpretation' | 122 |
| Bescribbling with Notes | 139 |
| Skipping Wit | 144 |
| Books an Enemy to Health | 163 |
| Early Reading | 182 |
| Letter-Ferrets | 218 |
| The Author's Library | 319 |
| Moore, Thomas (1779-1852). |
| 'My only Books' | 196 |
| A Counter Attraction | 199 |
| More, Hannah (1745-1833). |
| A Daughter's Favourite Novels | 86 |
| Literary Cookery | 92 |
| More, Sir Thomas (1478-1535). |
| Of a New-married Student | 198 |
| Norris, John (1657-1711). |
| 'Reading without thinking' | 142 |
| Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Lady Stirling-Maxwell) (1808-77). |
| To my Books | 8 |
| Norton, John Bruce (1815-83). |
| Merton Library | 365 |
| Oldham, John (1653-83). |
| To Cosmelia | 199 |
| Orford, Earl of. See Walpole. |
| Overbury, Sir Thomas (1581-1613). |
| Man's Prerogative | 13 |
| Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718). |
| The Bookworm | 250 |
| Parrot, Henry (fl. 1600-26). |
| Ad Bibliopolam | 262 |
| Pattison, Mark (1813-84). |
| The Manufactory of Books | 92 |
| Payn, James (1830-98). |
| The Blessed Chloroform of the Mind | 168 |
| Peacham, Henry (1576 ?-1643 ?). |
| A Bookish Ambition | 149 |
| Care as to Bindings | 241 |
| Peacock, Thomas Love (1785-1866). |
| The Outside of a Book | 247 |
| Percy, Thomas, Bishop of Dromore (1729-1811). |
| Why Books were Invented | 37 |
| Petrarch (Petrarca) Francesco (1304-74). |
| The Delightful Society of Books | 1 |
| Pope, Alexander (1688-1744). |
| Style v. Sense | 114 |
| Where Fools Rush In | 115 |
| Homer and Virgil | 127 |
| Lintott's New Miscellany | 267 |
| Cibber's Library | 313 |
| Praed, Winthrop Mackworth (1802-39). |
| To Helen: written in Keble's Christian Year | 201 |
| Prideaux, Peter (1578-1650). |
| On the Death of Sir Thomas Bodley | 356 |
| Procter, Adelaide Anne (1825-64). |
| A Student | 238 |
| Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall) (1787-1874). |
| My Books | 8 |
| Quarles, Francis (1572-1644). |
| On Buying the Bible | 291 |
| Rabelais, François (1483-1553). |
| By Divine Inspiration | 41 |
| Writing at Meal Times | 171 |
| Richardson, Samuel (1689-1761). |
| Advice to Mothers | 181 |
| Robertson, Frederick William (1816-53). |
| Books instead of Stimulants | 165 |
| Rochester, Earl of. See Wilmot. |
| Roscoe, William Caldwell (1823-59). |
| To my Books on Parting with Them | 9 |
| Roscommon, Earl of. See Dillon. |
| Ruskin, John (1819-1900). |
| Books of the Hour and of all Time | 54 |
| Taste in Literature and Art | 117 |
| Reading and Illiteracy | 159 |
| Girls' Reading | 208 |
| The Most Valuable Book | 254 |
| National Expenditure on Books | 274 |
| Libraries for Every City | 326 |
| St. Albans, Viscount. See Bacon. |
| Saxe, John Godfrey (1816-87). |
| The Library | 354 |
| Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832). |
| Appetite and Satiety | 147 |
| The Ghost of Betty Barnes | 203 |
| The Antiquary's Treasures | 231 |
| The Bannatyne Club | 270 |
| Dominie Sampson in the Library | 315 |
| Selden, John (1584-1654). |
| 'It is good to have translations' | 100 |
| Quotation | 102 |
| Censorship | 119 |
| Shakespeare, William (1564-1616). |
| 'Who will believe my verse' | 55 |
| 'Study is like the heaven's glorious sun' | 159 |
| 'How well he's read' | 162 |
| Books and Eyesight | 164 |
| Reading for Love's Sake | 189 |
| The Book of the Brain | 191 |
| Books as Spokesmen | 194 |
| Women's eyes | 196 |
| 'Marriage! my years are young' | 198 |
| 'The state, whereon I studied' | 215 |
| Dainties that are Bred of a Book | 219 |
| 'Is not the leaf turned down' | 240 |
| Gold Clasps and a Golden Story | 242 |
| Nobler than Contents | 242 |
| 'Hark you, sir; I'll have them very fairly bound' | 243 |
| 'In Nature's infinite Book' | 283 |
| The Secret of Strength | 288 |
| Red Letters and Conjuring | 289 |
| 'Come, and take choice' | 306 |
| 'Of his gentleness, Knowing I loved my Books' | 310 |
| 'Me, poor man,—my library' | 316 |
| Sheffield, John, Duke of Buckingham (1648-1721). |
| The Sufficiency of Homer | 127 |
| Sherbrooke, Viscount. See Lowe. |
| Sheridan, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah. See Norton. |
| Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816). |
| 'Steal! to be sure they will' | 91 |
| Lydia Languish and the Circulating Library | 213 |
| A neat Rivulet of Text | 249 |
| Sheridan, Thomas (1687-1738). |
| Our Best Acquaintance | 11 |
| Shirley, James (1596-1666). |
| Sweet and Happy Hours | 26 |
| A Book of Flesh and Blood | 196 |
| Skelton, John (1460 ?-1529). |
| An Edition de luxe | 241 |
| Smith, Alexander (1830-67). |
| The True Elysian Fields | 11 |
| Power and Gladness | 32 |
| Smith, Sydney (1771-1845). |
| A Short Cut to Fame | 154 |
| 'No furniture so charming as Books' | 264 |
| South, Robert (1634-1716). |
| 'He who has published an injurious Book' | 80 |
| A little Book the most excellent | 120 |
| 'Much reading is like much eating' | 158 |
| Southey, Robert (1774-1843). |
| My days among the Dead are passed | 4 |
| A Heavenly Delight | 5 |
| The Best of all Possible Company | 5 |
| More than Meat, Drink, and Clothing | 28 |
| A Library of Twelve | 62 |
| Reading several Books at a time | 130 |
| Homo Unius Libri | 292 |
| A Colloquy in a Library | 320 |
| Spenser, Edmund (1552 ?-99). |
| One day I wrote her name | 56 |
| To his Book: of his Lady | 195 |
| Stanhope, Philip Dormer, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773). |
| A Consolation for the Deaf | 4 |
| Books and the World | 180 |
| The last Editions the best | 235 |
| 'Tis folly to be wise | 246 |
| Genteel Ornaments | 273 |
| Steele, Sir Richard (1672-1729). |
| Exercise for the Mind | 37 |
| Stephen, Sir James (1789-1859). |
| Poets as Commentators | 136 |
| Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768). |
| The Company of Mutes | 3 |
| Mr. Shandy's Library | 314 |
| Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894). |
| Picture-Books in Winter | 174 |
| Stirling-Maxwell, Lady. See Norton. |
| Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745). |
| The Battle of the Books | 63 |
| Recipe for an Anthology | 94 |
| Cupid and the Book of Poems | 194 |
| A Standard for Language | 296 |
| 'I have sometimes heard' | 303 |
| Sylvester, Josuah (1563-1618). |
| Surcloying the Stomach | 156 |
| Symonds, John Addington (1840-93). |
| [Greek: hupothêkê eis emauton]('Back to thy books!') | 197 |
| Taylor, John (1580-1653). |
| Books and Thieves | 77 |
| To the Good or Bad Reader | 150 |
| Fast and Loose | 289 |
| On Coryat's Crudities | 302 |
| Temple, Sir William (1628-99). |
| The Multiplication of Originals | 59 |
| Ancient and Modern Books | 63 |
| Books as Signposts | 110 |
| Tennyson, Alfred, Lord (1809-92). |
| Poets and their Bibliographies | 98 |
| Merlin's Book | 289 |
| Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-63). |
| Novels are Sweets | 89 |
| 'There are no race of people who talk about Books' | 153 |
| A Kindly Tie | 187 |
| Thomson, James (1700-48). |
| The Mighty Dead | 161 |
| Thomson, Richard (1794-1865). |
| The Book of Life | 284 |
| Tickle, Thomas (1686-1740). |
| The Hornbook | 175 |
| Tooke, John Horne (1736-1812). |
| Read Few Books well | 129 |
| Trapp, Joseph (1679-1747). |
| Oxford and Cambridge: an Epigram | 113 |
| Trench, Richard Chevenix, Archbishop of Dublin (1807-86). |
| Books and Life | 160 |
| Tupper, Martin Farquhar (1810-89). |
| Books and Friends | 12 |
| Turner, Charles Tennyson (1808-79). |
| On Certain Books | 82 |
| Vaughan, Henry (1622-95). |
| To his Books | 13 |
| The Book | 284 |
| To the Holy Bible | 290 |
| On Sir Thomas Bodley's Library | 362 |
| Vere, Sir Aubrey de (1788-1846). |
| Sacred and Profane Writers | 296 |
| Verulam, Lord. See Bacon. |
| Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de (1694-1778). |
| Multiplication is Vexation | 59 |
| The Seat of Authority | 107 |
| Waller, Sir William (1597 ?-1668). |
| The Contentment I have in my Books | 2 |
| Riding Post | 146 |
| Full Libraries and Empty Heads | 149 |
| Walpole, Horatio, Earl of Orford (1717-97). |
| Lounging Books | 169 |
| Literary Upholsterers | 264 |
| Ward, John William, Earl of Dudley (1781-1833). |
| A Preference for Great Models | 72 |
| Watts, Isaac (1674-1748). |
| Books to be Marked | 139 |
| Wesley, John (1703-91). |
| 'I read only the Bible' | 291 |
| A Man of one Book | 292 |
| Whitelocke, Bulstrode (1605-75). |
| The Soul's Viaticum | 368 |
| Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-92). |
| A Magnate in the Realm of Books | 7 |
| The Library | 326 |
| Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester (1647-80). |
| 'Books bear him up awhile' | 39 |
| Wilson, John (d. 1889). |
| O for a Booke | 171 |
| Wither, George (1588-1667). |
| Mountebank Authors | 78 |
| 'Good God! how many dungboats' | 94 |
| In bondage to the Bookseller | 262 |
| Wordsworth, William (1770-1850). |
| Books a substantial World | 21 |
| The Tables Turned | 172 |
| Early Reading | 184 |
| Young, Edward (1683-1765). |
| How Volumes Swell | 93 |
| An ignorant Book-collector | 219 |
| Notes | 369 |
| Index of Authors mentioned in the Text and in the Notes | 400 |
