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K-hunter has been removed to his final place of rest, and it is then
discovered that the circumstances of the family require his treasures to
be dispersed,--if then the result should take the unexpected shape that
his pursuit has not been so ruinously costly after all--nay, that his
expenditure has actually fructified--it is well. But if the book-hunter
allow money-making--even for those he is to leave behind--to be combined
with his pursuit, it loses its fresh relish, its exhilarating influence,
and becomes the source of wretched cares and paltry anxieties. Where
money is the object, let a man speculate or become a miser--a very
enviable condition to him who has the saving grace to achieve it, if we
hold with Byron that the accumulation of money is the only passion that
never cloys. Let not the collector, therefore, ever, unless in some
urgent and necessary circumstances, part with any of his treasures. Let
him not even have recourse to that practice called barter, which
political philosophers tell us is the universal resource of mankind
preparatory to the invention of money as a circulating medium and means
of exchange. Let him confine all his transactions in the market to
purchasing only. No good ever c