Chapter V: Books Formerly the Property of Samuel Butler

BUTLER wrote to Robert Bridges, 6 Feb. 1900, "I have, I verily believe, the smallest library of any man in London who is by way of being literary." (_Memoir_, II., 320.)

Cf. no. 9 in Section I. Pictures, "Interior of Butler's sitting-room," where part of his library is shown. The rest of his books were in a cupboard between his sitting-room and his painting-room. They all passed under the residuary bequest in his will to his nephew, Henry Thomas Butler, who gave them to me. Some were taken by Streatfeild, his literary executor, and some few were lost in transitu; the remainder are here.

AGAR, T. L. Emendationes Homericae. [189-]

With notes by Butler.

ALLEN, GRANT. Charles Darwin. By Grant Allen. (English Worthies.) London, 1885.

Butler was asked to review this, but declined on the ground that there was too strong a personal hostility between both Darwin and Grant Allen and himself to make it possible for him to review the book without a bias against it. (_Memoir_, II. 28.)

ANDERSON, W. C. F. See Engelman, R.

BETTANY, G. T. The Life of Charles Darwin. (Great Writers.) London, 1887.

BIBLE, THE HOLY. Oxford, 1836.

Inscribed "Samuel Butler, from his affectionate Godmother and Aunt Anna Worsley, September 13th, 1836." So that he was not christened till he was more than nine months old, and he used to say that this delay was a risky business, because during all those months the devil had the run of him. He imitated the inscription in this Bible for the inscription in the christening Bible which Ernest spurns from him when he is about to undertake the conversion of Miss Maitland in chapter lx. of _The Way of All Flesh_. But he imitated it too closely for he wrote, "It was the Bible given him at his christening by his affectionate Godmother and Aunt, Elizabeth Allaby." Whereas Ernest only had one godmother, and she was Alethea, the sister of Theobald. Anna Worsley was a sister of Butler's mother, and Elizabeth Allaby was a sister of Ernest's mother.

BIBLE. New Testament in Greek. Oxford, 1851.

Two copies, with very numerous MS. notes by Butler. Given to St. John's College some years ago.

BORDIGA, GAUDENZIO. Notizie intorno alle opere di Gaudenzio Ferrari. Milano, 1821.

Used by Butler in writing _Ex Voto_.

BOSWELL, JAMES. Croker's Boswell's Johnson. New edition. London, 1860.

Pencil marks by Butler.

BRIDGES, ROBERT. Poetical Works of Robert Bridges. 2 vols. London, 1898.

Butler and Bridges corresponded about the Sonnets of Shakespeare and the Odyssey and exchanged examples of their published works. (See the _Memoir_.)

BUCKLEY, THEODORE ALOIS. The Iliad of Homer and the Odyssey of Homer. Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley. (Bonn's Classical Library.) 2 vols. 1872-3.

BURKE, EDMUND. Reflections on the Revolution in France. By Edmund Burke. London, Daly [18--].

CANDLER, C. The Prevention of Consumption. By C. Candler. London, 1887.

Inscribed "Samuel Butler, Esq., with the Author's compliments."

CARLYLE, THOMAS. Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches. By Thomas Carlyle. 3 vols. London, 1857.

COLBORNE-VEEL, MARY. The Fairest of the Angels and Other Verse. By Mary Colborne-Veel. London, 1894.

Given to Butler by the Authoress, who is the daughter of J. Colborne-Veel, formerly editor of _The Press_, Christchurch, New Zealand. Miss Colborne-Veel found Butler's "Philosophic Dialogue" in _The Press_ of 20 Dec. 1862. (See the _Memoir_, I. 100.)

CREIGHTON, CHARLES. Illustrations of Unconscious Memory in Disease. By Charles Creighton. London, 1886.

Inscribed "To Samuel Butler from the author, February, 1888."

CRUVEILHIER, J. C. Atlas of the Descriptive Anatomy of the Human Body. By J. C. Cruveilhier. London, 1844.

DALLAS, W. S. See Darwin, Charles.

DALY, CH. See Shakespeare.

DANIEL, P. A. Notes and Conjectural Emendations of certain Doubtful Passages in Shakespeare's Plays. By P. A. Daniel. London, 1870.

Inscribed "S. Butler from his friend the Author."

DARWIN, CHARLES. The Origin of Species. By Charles Darwin. First Edition. London, 1859.

"From the Author." With MS. notes and marks by Samuel Butler.

DARWIN, CHARLES. The Origin of Species. By Charles Darwin Sixth Edition (18th thousand), with additions and corrections to 1872. London, 1876.

With MS. notes and marks by Samuel Butler. Butler bought this in order to compare it with the original edition.

DARWIN, CHARLES. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. By Charles Darwin. London, 1872.

Inscribed "From the Author." Butler procured for Mr. Darwin the two illustrations by Mr. A. May, pp. 54-5. (See the _Memoir_.)

DARWIN, CHARLES. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. By Charles Darwin. Second edition. 2 vols. London, 1875.

DARWIN, CHARLES. Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas, with a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin. First edition. London, 1879.

This book is referred to in chapter iv. of _Unconscious Memory_; also in my pamphlet, "Charles Darwin and Samuel Butler: a Step towards Reconciliation"; also in the _Memoir_.

DARWIN, CHARLES. The Life of Erasmus Darwin. By Charles Darwin. Being an introduction to an Essay on his Scientific Works by Ernst Krause, translated from the German by W. S. Dallas. Second edition. London, 1887.

Pencil note by Butler, p. 4. "Second Edition" means second edition of the preceding book which is called "Erasmus Darwin," that is, the title was altered. In the first book precedence is given to Krause's Life of Erasmus Darwin, in the second precedence is given to Charles Darwin's introduction.

DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN. See Plato.

DICTYS CRETENSIS. (Teubner Classics.) Leipzig.

DUDGEON, ROBERT ELLIS. The Prolongation of Life. By R. E. Dudgeon, M.D. Second edition. London, 1900.

Given by Dr. Dudgeon either to Butler or to me after Butler's death, I forget which.

DUNCAN, W. STEWART. Conscious Matter. By W. Stewart Duncan. London, 1881.

ELEMENTS, THE, of Social Science; or, Physical, Sexual, and Natural Religion. By a Graduate of Medicine. Third edition. London, 1860.

I have no doubt that Butler was directed to this book by Dr. Dudgeon.

EMSLIE, JOHN PHILIPPS. New Canterbury Tales. By John Philipps Emslie. London [1887].

ENGELMAN and ANDERSON. Pictorial Atlas to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. London, 1892. Thirty-six Plates by R. Engelman and W. C. F. Anderson.

EPICORUM GRAECORUM FRAGMENTA. (Teubner Classics.) Leipzig.

GARNETT, RICHARD. Poems. By Richard Garnett. London, 1895.

Inscribed "Samuel Butler, with R. Garnett's very kind regards. December, 1893."

GARNETT, RICHARD. Edward Gibbon Wakefield. By R. Garnett, C.B., LL.D. London, 1898.

Inscribed "From the Author."

GARNETT, RICHARD. The Life of Thomas Carlyle. By Richard Garnett. London, 1887.

Inscribed "Samuel Butler from Richard Garnett."

GARNETT, RICHARD. Dante, Petrarch, Camoens. CXXIV. Sonnets translated by Richard Garnett, LL.D. London, 1896.

Inscribed "Samuel Butler, from R. Garnett."

GOETHE. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. Translated. 2 vols. Leipzig, 1873.

HESIOD. (Teubner Classics.) Leipzig.

HOMER. Iliad and Odyssey. 2 vols. London, Pickering, 1831.

With numerous MS. notes by Butler. Given to St. John's College some years ago.

HOMER. Iliad and Odyssey. 4 vols. [18--]

Interleaved and profusely adnotated by Butler.

HOMER. Iliad, Odyssey, and Hymns. (Teubner Classics.) Leipzig.

HOMER. See Buckley, Theodore Alois.

JEBB, SIR R. C. Introduction to Homer. Third edition. London, 1888. _Also_ a copy with a few MS. notes by Butler.

JESUS OF HISTORY, THE. London, 1869.

Used by Butler in preparing _The Fair Haven_.

KRAUSE, ERNST. See Darwin, Charles.

LAMARCK. Philosophie Zoologique. Nouvelle edition par Ch. Martins. 2 vols. Paris, 1873.

Used by Butler in preparing _Evolution Old and New_.

LAURENTIUS. The Miocene Men of the Bible. By Laurentius. London, 1889.

LOCKE, JOHN. An Essay concerning Human Understanding. By John Locke. 2 vols. London, 1824.

MALONE, E. See Shakespeare.

MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY, FELIX. Letters from Italy and Switzerland. By Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Translated by Lady Wallace. London, 1862.

See p. 37 about Mendelssohn's staying such a long while before things in _Alps and Sanctuaries_, ch. ii.

MILTON, JOHN. The Prose Works of John Milton. Only Vol. III., containing "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce." (Bohn.) London, 1872.

Referred to in _The Way of All Flesh_, when Theobald and Christina drive away together after their marriage. And cf. _Life and Habit_, ch. ii., where, after quoting from a journal an extract about Lycurgus, Butler proceeds: "Yet this truly comic paper does not probably know that it is comic, any more than the kleptomaniac knows that he steals, or than John Milton knew that he was a humorist when he wrote a hymn upon the Circumcision and spent his honeymoon in composing a treatise on Divorce."

MIVART, ST. GEORGE. On the Genesis of Species. By St. George Mivart. Second edition. London, 1871.

Used by Butler in preparing his books on evolution.

PALEY, WILLIAM. Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity. By William Paley, D.D. New edition. London, 1837.

PALEY, WILLIAM. A View of the Evidences of Christianity. By William Paley, D.D. New edition by T. R. Birks. London [18--].

PIERS PLOUGHMAN. The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman. Edited by Thomas Wright. 2 vols. London, 1887.

Butler bought this to help him to make up his mind as to the limits of permissible archaism in translating the Odyssey and the Iliad.

PILKINGTON, MATTHEW. A General Dictionary of Painters. By Matthew Pilkington. 2 vols. London, 1829.

PLATO. The Republic of Plato. Translated by John Llewelyn Davies and David James Vaughan. Cambridge, 1852.

H. F. Jones to Butler from the Hotel dell'Angelo, Faido, in 1883: "The signora has given me No. 4, the room into which you came one morning, more than five years ago, and said, 'Oh, you've been reading that damned Republic again!'" _Memoir_, I. 395.

RIGAUD, JOHN FRANCIS. See Vinci, Leonardo da.

ROCKSTRO, W. S. The Rules of Counterpoint. By W. S. Rockstro. London [1882].

Out of which Butler used to do his counterpoint exercises.

ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL. See Webster, Augusta.

SCHOELCHER, VICTOR. The Life of Handel. By Victor Schoelcher. London, 1857.

Referred to in the _Memoir_ of Butler.

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Poems of William Shakespeare. London, Daly [18--].

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Shakespeare's Poems. Malone. 1780.

This is part of Vol. I. of Malone's "Supplement to the Edition of Shakespeare's Plays published in 1778 by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens." I do not know where Butler got it; he wanted Malone's comments on the Sonnets and he may have bought this second-hand or it may have been given to him. It was probably in a bad state, for he had it bound; there is an entry to that effect in his account book, 30th March, 1899.

SKERTCHLY, SYDNEY B. J. See Tylor, Alfred.

STANLEY, ARTHUR PENRHYN. The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D.D. By Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. Seventh edition. London, 1852.

Butler bought this when he was writing the Life of his Grandfather, because he was told that it was a model biography of a great schoolmaster.

STRAUSS, FRIEDRICH. A New Life of Jesus. By Friedrich Strauss. Authorised translation. 2 vols. London, 1865.

Used by Butler in preparing _The Fair Haven_.

SWIFT, JONATHAN. The Works of Jonathan Swift. 2 vols. London, 1859.

With pencil marks by Butler.

TYLOR, ALFRED. Colouration in Plants and Animals. By Alfred Tylor. Edited by Sydney B. J. Skertchly. London, 1886.

Alfred Tylor was a friend of Butler, and is referred to in my _Memoir_.

TYLOR, ALFRED. On the Growth of Trees and Protoplasmic Continuity. By Alfred Tylor. London, 1886.

This was originally a lecture read by Skertchly to the Linnean Society, Mr. Tylor being too ill to attend. Butler was present and spoke. Referred to in the _Memoir_.

VAUGHAN, DAVID JAMES. See Plato.

VINCI, LEONARDO DA. A Treatise on Painting. By Leonardo da Vinci. Translated by John Francis Rigaud. London, 1835.

WEBSTER, AUGUSTA. Mother and Daughter. By the late Augusta Webster. London, 1895.

With an Introductory Note by Wm. Michael Rossetti. Inscribed, "Samuel Butler, with kind regards from Thomas Webster." Augusta Webster is referred to in the _Memoir_.

WHITE, WILLIAM. The Story of a Great Delusion. By William White. London, 1885.

WILBERFORCE, SAMUEL. Agathos and other Sunday Stories. By Samuel Wilberforce, M.A., Archdeacon of Surrey. Nineteenth edition. London, 1857.

WRIGHT, THOMAS. See Piers Ploughman.