Scrope, or, The Lost Library

A novel of New York and Hartford. CONTENTS include: The Detective; The Shadowing Wings; The Scrope Will and Signature; Gowan’s Second-hand Book Catacomb; The Unique Scrope Genealogy; A Billiard Saloon; Mr. William Button wins of Mr. Oppenheimer; A Faro Bank; The Solidarité de 1’Avenir; A See-ance at Mrs. Babbles’s; The Great Philosopher, Mr. S. P. Quinby Anketell and the Development of the Germ; Mr. Anketell’s New Language; The Death of a Waiter-Girl; Pictures of the Doctor’s Hands; A Theological Dinner at Mr. Button’s; The Scrope Association and the Estate in England; Indian Philology, a Ghost Story, and a Love Song; Adrian’s Meditations; A Pair of Mittens; Adrian searches a Paper-Mill, and finds Something; The Scrope Chest; Adrian as a Sick Nurse; Adrian as a Defender of the Oppressed; A Broadway Fire; Inside the Building; The Police Station Cells; The Morning Jail-Delivery; The Culmination of Mr. Button’s Career; Adrian gets rid of one of his Mittens; The Finding of the Lost Library.