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Europe and Booth's Birds of the British Isles — 

 works of gigantic proportions. He had a com- 

 plete set of the Ibis, the organ of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, from its first number. 

 "For a long time," writes Mr. Lennard, "one 

 volume was missing, and all his efforts to procure 

 a copy were unavailing. At last he saw in the 

 advertisement of a sale at Huddersfield some 

 numbers of the Ibis mentioned among the books. 

 No information was given as to the date or 

 volume, but the chance was a rare one ; so our 

 collector, without a word to anyone, took the 

 train to Huddersfield. His pluck was rewarded, 

 for he returned to London with the missing 

 volume." Of " Bohemian " literature also he 

 had a wonderful collection, starting with the 

 Train and the Savage Club Papers, and many 

 books and pamphlets by fellow Savages, and 

 including manj 7 rare, quaint and otherwise 

 interesting curiosities of literature. He had a 

 keen appreciation of the monetary value of his 

 rare books, and would cut out and put in 

 them extracts from dealers' catalogues giving 

 the price current of the particular book or set. 

 He gave my wife his Gaskell's Life of Charlotte 

 Bronte, in two volumes, 1857. Inside the covers 

 are several newspaper cuttings of reviews and 

 articles on the subject and a cutting from a 

 catalogue giving the last price quoted for the 

 work. 



