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Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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The more carefully we read and compare the texts the more surely we discover that from these pages (possibly, wonder of wonders, from this page) the poet we name William Shakespeare drew the body of his immortal play of Julius Csesar. We close the great covers reverently and put the silent witness back under the lighter shelf. In Mr. Andrew Langs pleasant book called The Library, he speaks of the difficulty in these decadent days of picking up literary treasures, a thing so frequently done by those who knew, forty, thirty, and even twenty years ago. Nevertheless, we would whisper,let not those who possess the knowledge, and the opportunity of following the quest, lose all hope. Good things
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ENGRAVED BY T. JOHNSON. Thackeray when about Thirty Years Old. may be found even in these degenerate days! But thirty years ago what might not be discovered by searching in London or Paris, and sometimes almost without the excitement of the hunt! For instance, upon this shelf stands a beautiful copy of "Rasselas" — not a first edition, but one of the fine Ballantyne reprints of 1805 — illustrated by Smirke, with engravings by Raimbach; quite good enough to make the eyes of the book-hunter sparkle. Imagine the joy of the enthusiastic buyer, having left the shop, the book paid for and safely tucked under his arm, to find, as he turned into a quiet street to take a look at his new purchase, to find, I say, hidden between the leaves, a letter in the well-known handwriting of Dr. Johnson himself. It was almost too much to believe, and the question immediately arose in the young publishers mind, to whom does this letter belong? At one moment the fortunate possessor would

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