Susan Fenimore Cooper 
Lumley Autograph [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info present you this new edition. [Not long since an American author received an application from a German correspondent for "a few Autographs"- the number of names applied for amounting to more than a hundred, and covering several sheets of foolscap. A few years since an Englishman of literary note sent his Album to a distinguished poet in Paris for his contribution, when the volume was actually stolen from a room where every other article was left untouched; showing that Autographs were more valuable in the eyes of the thief than any other property. Amused with the recollection of these facts, and others of the same kind, some idle hours were given by the writer to the following view of this mania of the day.