New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-07
STORIES or BIBLIOKLEPTS.
From The Saturday Rers~tr.

Many eminent characters have been Bibliokepts.
When Innocent Y. was still M0Dsignor PamDhlo.
he stole a b0ok-sO says lalemant DIES ReanX-from
Du Monster. the painter. The amusing thlng ~
.hat pu Monster himself was book thiei. ne
u-ad 10 tell how he prIgCed book OF which he lad
lang been I'm search from a stall on the POnt NeuI;
lint saws Talemant Whom Janin does not seem
to have consultet). there are many people VINO
dor't thn, II stealing TO steal book unless y0u sell
l. aftcrward.p But DU Monster took less l3,rll
view who're his own books were c99hc"rAtd.
The Cardinal b; berlnl came TO Pans as
legatp aud brought IN bis suite NOnsgnor ram
pmlio, who aitcrward became innocent ~ NE
Cardinal paid a VIslI ~ Du Monster IN his Stnu'o
where Mo Islgner PamphlllO sped. on table L. His
t0re do C0RCle d. Ireaetne good edition, the Lon
Goa one. "Nalr pIJE" thought the young ecc'e
sir,r;c " that such IIau should be. by some acct
dealt the pCSse>sOr of So valuable BOOK " I'm
work under his suutIna. BHi mite Ia MONSTER oo-
served HIM. and SAID furOusly o the cardinal mat
a holy man should not bring tneYes &ad robbers IN
his company With these words. and with Others
OF a violent and hbellous charlc, er. be recovered
the History OF the Council Of Trent ana kicAed 09t
tnc future Pope. Ameo de Ia Hons traces t. tbs
incident the hatred borne by Innocent y 10 the
Crown and people OF France
ing to Brantome, WAS BibIioktept, ne MaT'Hat
StrcZ2i had y very fine library, ana after Ms deith
lie Queen MOther SER ii 1t, promising some day 10
piy tue yaiue 10 his son. who never goi tirthlhg
of the money" The Ptoemics, toe, were thieves on
a large scale. 4 department of the AleNaHdIi1n
Library was called " he Books from the shlDS
and was He'd with rare volumes stolen from passen-
gers IN vessels that touched at tue port lrhe I've
owners We're given copies OF their anc ent MSS.'
bur the exchange. as Aristotle says, was an In
voluntary one, and not distinct iIOm robbery.
The great pattern OF BlbhOklepis, man WHO
carried ms passion to the most Tegretable excuses,
was spanish priest. Don Nlncente. of the convent
| of Pobla in Aragon. When the Spanish revolution
despOlied the convent libraries Don Nlncente eStdo.
ished himself at Barcelona, under the pillars OF
Los Eucantes, where are the sta Is OF the merchants
of brio brac and the seats of them that sell DooAs
| In gloomy den tn Don stored up treasures whlch
hr hated to sell. Once he was present III an auction
where he WAS 0utb,d IN the com petition for rsr',
! perhaps Il unique. volume Three nights after that
the people OF Barcelona were awakened by cries ~
| fuci" The house and shop OF the man VINO had
bought. OTtiHoc'o"s, per los uGloriosoS f s
was extnguished the body of the
| owner of the house was found, with pipe ID ms
/ blackcncd hand and some money beside him. Every
one said " lie must have ST The house on fire with
| "A spark from his pipe" Time went on, and week by
week the police found the bodies OF slain men, no"
| in the street now IN a dItch, now ID the rlVer
There were Young men and old, all had been harm
less and inoen>ve IN their lives, anj-all had o'en
philippines. a dagger IN an invisible hani hdI
| reached their hearts: but the assassin had spar"H
| their purses money and rings Al organize search
was made IN tue city. and the sh3p OF boa Nihceh1e
| was examined. There, IN hidden recess, ihe
police o'59yrred 'g E,, copy o. ,ro6 0'"' S%s
| Ought by rights to have been burned VITA
| the house of IT'S purcia>cr. Don Nncente Vas
| asked how he got the book. lie replied N quirt
| voice. demanded that his collection should ho maze
over TO the Barcelona Library, and tucn CONFESS .
long array OF crimes. He had stranded has ikah
stolen the Ofi'RdC.OnS, and burned tht house. inc
| slain men were people who had pOuElt nom "iiI
| books which he really could not Dear 20 pa.t
with. At has trial his counsel tried 10 prove ii5t
his confession false, and tuat he migh nave @'t
ms books by honest means. IL Was objected ..hs
| there was IN tie world only one bDA printed
by LANDER, PIlmurt IN 1882. and thai the Irs'r,r
must have stolen tins, the only cop,, from tlo "ui"'l
| where II Was treasured. The defendants counsel
proved that there was another copy IN the Louvre
that therefore there might be- more, and that ihc
IL. how. h.nr
| HERE Don Vincente previously caliouS uttered an
| hysterical cry. Sand the Acaldo: AT last, m
centc you gin to understand ie enOrmitS o our
| offence y An, SguOr Alclide, my error WASS
| clumsy indeed. II YOU only knew how miserable |
am ~ " II human justice proves nticxoe mere Is
| another Justice whose PITY Is lEeAhanstlOif n
INV copy was not uniquew With the story ~ this M
pnitent thief we NAV close the roll of BlOlokepts'
| When the celebrated General Wolfe died. pre-,