In the Track of the Bookworm

We now come to the sordid but serious consideration whether books are a "good investment" in the financial sense. The mind of every true Book-Worm should revolt from this questi...

Ambrose Fermin Didot recommended binding the "Iliad" in red and the "Odyssey" in blue, for the Greek rhapsodists wore a scarlet cloak when they recited the former and a blue one...

So a reviewer in "The Nation" stigmatises Grangerism as "a vampire art, maiming when it does not murder" (I did not know that vampires "maim" their victims) "and incapable of ri...

Mr. Blades regards as "Enemies of Books" fire, water, gas, heat, dust and neglect, ignorance and bigotry, the worm, beetles, bugs and rats, book-binders, collectors, servants an...

To book-worms all, of high or low degree, Whate'er of madness be their stages, And just as well unknown as known to me, I dedicate these trifling pages, In hope that when they t...

In some localities it is quite the vogue to take off the coffin-plate from the coffin--all the other silver "trimmings," too, for that matter--and preserve it, and even have it...

Of course my chief occupation in my library is reading and writing. To be sure, I do a good deal of thinking there. But there is another occupation which I practice to a great e...