There are so many genuine book-lovers in Fatherland that the commission of such a crime would seem incredible, did not bibliographical history teem with similar desecrations.[1] [1] This was written in 1879, since which time a new building has been erected. Water in the form of vapour is...
The poet first deplores the destruction of the valuable printed books, and then the irretrievable loss to history by the burning of his Lordships many personal manuscripts and contemporary documents. Their pages mangled, burnt and torn, The loss was his alone; But ages yet to come shall ...