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pense of title-pages. A gentleman going into a library, might know 

 from the outside all about the contents that is, if my plan was fol- 

 lowed." 



" And pray what is your plan ? " 



" Why, to mention a few cases using bona fide wood, you'll re- 

 collect, instead of hemp paper : I'd always board " The sorrows of 

 Werter" in pine ; " Hoyle's Games" in deal; <( Chancery Practice" 

 in sloe ; " Navigation " in elm ; " The Sea" in beech ; " The Hue and 

 Cry" in aloe ; and " Transactions of the Phrenological Society" in the 

 broken sculls of the Funny Club : Can you remember any other 

 books?" 



" Oh ! certainly ; a few posers I think : ' Pierce Egan's Lives of 

 the Pugilists' " 



" I'd bind them in box." 



" < Tales of Chivalry'" 



" In latice-wood." 



" < The Busy-Body'" 



" In medlar." 



" ' The Siamese twins'" 



" In pear" 



" < The Tutor's Assistant' " 



" Birch, or beet-root, with caned sides." 



te f Memoirs of Jonathan Wild' " 



" In peach." 



" ' Anecdotes of Dogs' " 



" In bark" 



< The Exile'" 



In/r." 



" Why, you seem to be quite aufait to the thing." 



" Yes : I have been many years thinking about it ; and take my 

 word for't, there's no book, that a man of talent can't put into proper 

 boards only give him plenty of rope." 



" I don't understand." 



" Why, let him have his full range geographical and particular. 

 To put a case or so : For ( The Art of Preserving the Hair,' I might 

 perhaps recommdnd Combe-wood ; but as to ' Miss Landon's works,' 

 I should certainly say, Burnham." 



" Very fair." 



" Then, the different parts of trees might be made to serve one's 

 turn, in respect of boards." 



" As how, pray ? " 



" Why, for Racine,' I should look out some rootty part ; and for 

 f The Rent-Day,' I should provide some stumpy." 



" Capital ! " 



" Even used materials might be worked up. Now, there's the 

 builders : For ' Perils of the Sea,' what so appropriate as rafters ? 

 for ' Lives of British Bishops,' as sleepers ? for ' Heroes of the 

 Ring/ as floorers ; for Monsieur Jarrin, or Signer Ude, as jambs? 

 Then to take the coopers what so capital for modern music as 

 old staves ? " 



" And for ' The Monthly Magazine' " 



" Nothing could be more appropriate than poplar." 



