Bibliomania
To get the best out of books, I am convinced that you must begin to love these perennial friends very early in life. It is the only way to know all their "curves," all those little shadows of expression and small lights. There is a glamour which you never _see_ if you begin to...
To get the best out of books, I am convinced that you must begin to love these perennial friends very early in life. It is the only way to know all their "curves," all those lit...
2. Chapter 2In 1872, the attention of readers was forced on a few great names. These were generally the names of Frenchmen. The sympathy of Americans during the Franco-Prussian War had been...
4. Chapter 4Some of us have acquired a state of mind which helps us to believe that whenever a man mentions a book he either condemns or approves of it. In a word, the mere naming a book me...
5. Chapter 5Among nature books that gave me many happy hours on the banks of the Delaware--imperial river!--is Charles C. Abbott's "Upland and Meadow." "Better," Mr. Abbott says, "repeat th...
3. Chapter 3My friendship with Thackeray and Dickens was an evolution rather than a discovery. Once having read "Vanity Fair" or "Nicholas Nickleby," the book became not so much a book but...