Perhaps my sluggishness toward first editionsto which I have hinted abovecomes in part from the acquaintance with a man who in a linguistic outburst as I met him, pronounced himself to be a numismatist and philatelist.

No, the numismatist's head is not crammed with the mysteries of life and death, nor is a philatelist one who is possessed with the dimmer secrets of eternity.

BOGGS, WINTHROP S. The postage stamps and postal history of Canada; a handbook for philatelists.

BOGGS, WINTHROP S. The postage stamps and postal history of Canada; a handbook for philatelists.

*** "The new Bolsheviks," says The Philatelist, "are fetching eight shillings a pair."

"David Purtell Hume, Numismatist, philatelist, dealer in objects of art and curiosities.

Upon this latter could be easily read the words: DAVID P. HUME NUMISMATIST PHILATELIST ART CURIOSITIES