How to form a library / by H.B. Wheatley, F.S.A.

  • Henry B. Wheatley
Date:
1886
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Credit: How to form a library / by H.B. Wheatley, F.S.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that.”^ Thus spoke the true bibliophile. ]\Ir. Edwards has collected much interest- ing information respecting Napoleon and his libraries, and of his labours I here freely avail myself. Bourrienne affirms that the authors who chiefly attracted Napoleon in his school days were Polybius, Plutarch, and Arrian. “ Shortly before he left France for Egypt, Napoleon drew up, with his own hand, the scheme of a travelling library, the charge of collecting which was given to John Baptist Say, the Economist. It comprised about three hundred and twenty volumes, more than half of which are historical, and nearly all, as it seems, in French. The ancient historians comprised in the list are Thucydides, Plutarch, Poly- bius, Arrian, Tacitus, Livy, and Justin. The poets are Homer, Virgil, Tasso, Ariosto, the Telemaque of F6ndlon, the Henriade of Voltaire, with Ossian and La Fontaine. Among the works of prose fiction are the English novelists in forty volumes, of course
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