New-York tribune., 1922-12-24

trtc the bookshopt, and the keepers
n - the riverside stalls huddlo un-
,heir coats, gazing with anxious
hH's ,,s rare and hesitant book buyers.
o So into the book boxes on the stone
r =, N. Seine is the result Of habit
F'F.t..tation Of eternal hope. II may
. ~.serally that there are no good
a, qusys: indeed. there are not
"a becks. good or otherwise. to be
-. yreater part Of the books exhibited
~ !. of nineteenth century volumes,
10 longer read; books by Maxine
ne the friend Of Flaubert). Jules
3 - tbe husband Of George Sand),
N ohe lover Of Nine. Hanska-
.e,r the great mans DEATH. and by
.,,,a. of ether worthies, whose names
t'-.i no specific performance or attri-
kk
n' a proper stories. cheap editions
A,", remembered classics. ante dated
- ,,,ural science, secondhand text
~ - ,,d archaeological trestises-these
800 1.t lissrsture is difheult to come
a's'' -. a, three stsllkeepers cater TO the
tV ,..,i,r RAIDER Of modern writing.
49,, -. ssr,ts" Of Anatole France, Charles
~ gas,., Maurice Barres, Pierre Lott
l',- .,,, ef their time (which is yester-
- these they sell at bookshop prices.
$50 snS here and there the handsomely
~ - velumes Of Cres' "Maitre du Lvre"
',r,,, !. prices ranging from 80 to 70 francs.
,.,e,ding on their rarity.
y.S,rp de luxe editions. Of which there
,nr msny published. fetch as much on
=, ,.,v, As elsewhere. Some stalls are fur
49, frankly with new books only. bought
,,.u the publishers and retailed at current
-, value. Al intervals onr finds an old
- dealer who knows his more often her)
,,,,,. buys nothing except good stock and
IN, ,svsn.ageously. From these people one
a, sometimes purchase an item Of interest,
A. 4 did the other day.
couipe home TO the quiet Of the lie St.
f,sis. which lies like q quaybound village
hlinS Notre Dame in the heart Of Paris,
dr. the left bank from the Care d'Orsay.
,1,,, the book-boxes begin, to the Quai de
T,smene. where cross a temporary wooden
,sdse 10 the island. The thoroughness OF
n doing has ia proof in the fact that took
,srs than three hours for a promenade /
AMT have covered in twenty minutes.
had stopped at what, swore, was 20 be
=, last station. Il was in fact a station
4, which had been making. had already
tsnd there a handsome set Of the works
tnon,esquieu, six duodeeimo volumes, well
,sr.ed al Amsterdam in 1888, with beautiful
r,,, 70 illustrate the Esprit des LOix," all
4 urfeet condition in their smooth brown
nN bindings. Previously thereto had
ti,ksd up here n curious book, once the
ts,suion Of Mark Psttison; a book,
juaesd. which the great humanist cherished,
for Il, binding bore evidence Of frequent
and arsful repair.
This small volume pretended 70 be the
verk Of one Nicholas de Montand, and on
h title page was the date 1852. II was
ansd 'I4 MIRROR des Francois" and con-
sined an account Of "festat ct maniement
Is sHaires de France, tant de la justice
us dc Ia police svee lie reglement requis
II 10, trois estats pour la paeihcatio des
opbles !" etc, the whole put into dia-
ype and addressed 20 the reignng Queen
Henri III, Nine. Loyse de Lorraine.
remember that was greatly puzzled by
il find. Ny photographic equipment is
,sger. but found it hard to believe that
res 50 well printed, letter press Of such
rfect alignment, might have been possible
A little octave Of the sixteenth century.
favor Of its date was the fact that this
cox an expose Of the abuses Of government
France, was very evidently written by q
likely occurrence in this turbu-
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