text:  The booksellers' guild consists of about forty members presided over by a sheikh and a council of elders; and is conducted on principles as rigidly exclusive as those of some corporations nearer home it being almost impossible for any one to purchase the good-will of a shop unless connected by blood with some of the fraternity: but Mr White's account of "the trade " and of the bearded Murrays and Colburns by whom it is carried on is far from favourable