In the Track of the Bookworm

BALLADS.

1.	How a Bibliomaniac Binds his Books	26
2.	The Bibliomaniac’s Assignment of Binders	28
3.	The Failing Books	33
4.	Suiting Paper to Subject	34
5.	The Sentimental Chambermaid	37
6.	A Woman’s Idea of a Library	42
7.	The Shy Portraits	54
8.	The Snatchers	71
9.	The Stolid Auctioneer	75
10.	The Prophetic Book	80
11.	The Book-Seller	82
12.	The Public Librarian	85
13.	The Book-Worm does not care for Nature	97
14.	How I go A-Fishing	99
15.	The Book-Thief	111
16.	The Smoke Traveler	112
17.	The Fire in the Library	116
18.	Cleaning the Library	117
19.	Ode to Omar	119
20.	My Dog	121
21.	My Clocks	123
22.	A Portrait	125
23.	My Schoolmate	126
24.	My Shingle	129
25.	Solitaire	130
26.	My Friends the Books	133

To book-worms all, of high or low degree,
Whate’er of madness be their stages,
And just as well unknown as known to me,
I dedicate these trifling pages,
In hope that when they turn them o’er
They will not find the Track a bore.

The Track of the Book-Worm.

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