BOOKSELLERS ANd Printers, Old and New DIAGNOSIS OF THE BACILLUS LIBRORUM. THE PLEASURES OF EXTRA-ILLUSTRATION ON THE ODORS WHICH MY BOOKS EXHALE ELZEVIRS AND DIVERS OTHER MATTERS. 1 MY FIRST LOVE T this moment, when I am about to begin the most important un dertaking of my life, I recall the sense of abhorrence with which I have at different times read the confessions of men famed for their prowess in the realm of love. These boastings have always shocked me, for I reverence love as the noblest of the passions, and it is impossible for me to conceive how one who has truly fallen victim to its benign influence can ever thereafter speak flippantly of it. Yet there have been, and there still are, many who take a seeming delight in telling you how many conquests they have made, and they not infrequently have the bad taste to explain with wearisome prolixity the ways and the means whereby those con |