Note 1 — AN ELIZABETHAN NOVELIST

The writer of this paper once sent to that fine scholar and gracious gentleman, Professor Edward Arber, to inquire whether in his opinion one might hope to buy at a modest price a copy of either the first or the second part of Euphues. Professor Arber’s reply was amusingly emphatic: ‘You might as well try to purchase one of Mahomet’s old slippers.’ But in July of 1896 there were four copies of this old novel on sale at one New York bookstore. One of the copies was of great beauty, consisting of the two parts of the story bound up together in a really sumptuous fashion. The price was not large as prices of such books go, but on the other hand ‘’a was not small.’ Return