BY EUGENE FIELD Second Book of Tales. Songs and Other Verse. The Holy Cross and Other Tales. The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac. A Little Book of Profitable Tales. A Little Book of Western Verse. Second Book of Verse. Each, 1 vol., 16m0, $1.25. A Little Book of Profitable Tales. Cameo Edition with etched portrait. 16me, $1.25. Ecboes from the Sabine Farm. 4to, $2.00. With Trumpet and Drum. 16m0, $1.00. Love Songs of Childhood. 16m0, $1.00. Songs of Childbood. Verses by EUGENE FIELD. Music by REGINALD HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY FRESHMAN LIBRARY, MCKINLUCK HALL GIFT OF Che tor Noyos Greenough HARVARD Copyright 1896 BY JULIA SUTHERLAND FIELD 18744 Introduction THE determination to found a story or a series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania did not come impulsively to my brother. For many years, in short during the greater part of nearly a quarter of a century of journalistic work, he had celebrated in prose and verse, and always in his happiest and most delightful vein, the pleasures of book-hunting. Himself an indefatigable collector of books, the possessor of a library as valuable as it was interesting, a library containing volumes obtained only at the cost of great personal sacrifice, he was in the most active sympathy with the disease called bibliomania, and knew, as few comparatively poor men have known, the half-pathetic, half-humorous side of that incurable mental infirmity. The newspaper column, to which he con |