Jennifer Schuessler writes: “Sotheby’s has agreed to delay the much-publicized auction of a ‘lost’ library containing rare manuscripts by Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and the Brontës, as a consortium of British libraries and museums has begun an effort to raise $21 million to preserve it for the nation. That private library, the Honresfield Library, was assembled in the 19th century and had gone virtually unseen since the 1930s.”