Does anyone know the word for a book, in which a person writes excerpts of other people’s writings that they like?  Possibly a 19th-century thing.  Is it day book?

[quote author=cutterk link=board=what;num=1062029414;start=0#0 date=08/27/03 at 20:10:14]Does anyone know the word for a book, in which a person writes excerpts of other people’s writings that they like?  Possibly a 19th-century thing.  Is it day book?

I’d just call it a notebook….

Henri

[quote author=KatyBr link=board=what;num=1062029414;start=0#2 date=08/27/03 at 20:39:11]or a journal?

Naw, too Frenchified for my taste….

Henri

Plagiarism? (or "copyright theft" if you are of a litigious nature)

I would say "quotes-book". By the way, there is the word gnomology, which is "a collection of, or a treatise on, maxims, grave sentences, or reflections."

day·book (dâ‘bʊk’)
n.

(Abbr. DB) A book in which daily transactions are recorded.  A diary.

These do not match.

How about anthology - a collection of selected literary pieces or passages.

DJ

It may be a chrestomathy:

1. A selection of literary passages, usually by one author.
2. An anthology used in studying a language.

I have seen the term applied to collections by many authors.