...our feelings, if you would recognise our presence." . . . I say first we have despised literature. What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do Y you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend...

...compared with what we spend on our horses ? " asks another enthusiastic lover of books, already quoted. " If a man spends lavishly on his library, you call...But you never call any one a horsemaniac, though men rain themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear of people ruining themselves by their...

...history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life." "How much do you think we spend altogether on our...private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?" asks another enthusiastic lover of books, already quoted. "If a man spends lavishly on his library,...

...history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life." "How much do you think we spend altogether on our...private, as compared with what we spend on our horses ? " asks another enthusiastic lover of books, already quoted. " If a man spends lavishly on his library,...

...it frequently. In a sermou on " The Hiding Place," occur the following questions : — Again : — " What do we, as a nation, care about books ? How much...spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, aa compared with what we spend on our horses ?" — Rutkin. (ei By Ellipsis, or the omission of one...

...and we are filthy and foolish enough to thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries. . . . How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public and private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?' The trade in light literature, and in cheap...

...: " If a man spends lavishly on his library yon call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call one a horse-maniac though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do nothear of men ruining themselves by their books." They tell ench queer stories of the mania. One old...

...and we are filthy and foolish enough to thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries. . . . How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public and private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?' The trade in light literature, ami in cheap...

...even if true. As an example of satire take the following from Ruskin : ' If a man spends lavishly upon his library you call him mad — a bibliomaniac. But you never call a man a horsemaniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you don't hear of people...

...саго about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on onr libraries, public or privat«, »8 compared with what we spend on our horses ? If a man...you call him mad,— a bibliomaniac. But you never call_ one a horsemaniac, though men ruin themselves every day by their horses, and you do not hear...