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"Well, Harry, my boy, now I've told you how it has been with me all day, let's hear how you have been getting on with your bookmen: has it been a good day with you to-day? were you with Shakspeare worth all the rest all the world in him?" Corny was no respecter of authorities in hooks; a great name went for nothing with him it did not awe his understanding in the slightest degree.
"Cost 80 pounds if it cost a penny, and I bought it second- hand in perfect condition for 17 pounds, 5s., with the books thrown in All the Year Round from the beginning in half calf;" and then we returned in procession to the drawing-room, where my patron apologised for our absence, and explained that when two bookmen got together over books it was difficult to tear them away.
Thorpe wondered if in his time he could have looked such a vacant and sour young fool. No no. That could not be. Boys were different in his day and especially boys in book-shops. They read something and knew something of what they handled. They had some sort of aspirations, fitful and vague as these might be, to become in their time bookmen also.
Quiet men coming home from business and reading, for the sixth time, some noble English classic, would smile in their modesty if any one should call them bookmen, but in so doing they have a sounder judgment in literature than coteries of clever people who go crazy for a brief time over the tweetling of a minor poet, or the preciosity of some fantastic critic.
We shall take Budæus as our first example of the French bookmen in the period that followed the invention of printing. Of Guillaume Budé, to give him his original name, it was said that he knew Greek as minutely as the orators of the age of Demosthenes.
"I should have had a good time if I had been able to study here." "Yes; I presume you feel yourself drawn to any place where ancient prejudices are garnered up," she answered, not without archness. "I know by the stand you take about our cause that you share the superstitions of the old bookmen.
To own one or two examples from his library is to take high rank in the army of bookmen. The amateur of bindings need learn little more when he comprehends the stages of Grolier's literary passion, its fervent and florid beginnings, the majesty of its progress, and its austere simplicities in old age.
There are some that no hand but mine ever touches, and those are by far the best loved of my eye." A discussion followed, partly natural, partly moral, on the manner of pruning various roses, and on the curious connection between care and complacency, and the philosophy of the same. "The rules of the library are to shut up at sundown, sir," said one of the bookmen who had come into the room.
All around the outer square were shops with gilded fronts and most amazing signs: golden angels with outstretched wings, tiger heads, bears, brazen serpents, and silver cranes; and in and out of the shop-doors darted apprentices with new-bound books and fresh-printed slips; for this was old St. Paul's, the meeting-place of London town, and in Paul's Yard the printers and the bookmen dealt.
And in those days there still were bookmen widely-informed, observant, devoted old bookmen who loved their trade, and adorned it. Thorpe reflected that, as he grew older, he was the better able to apprehend the admirable qualities of that departed race of literature's servants.
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