A Book for All Readers: Designed as an Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books, and the Formation of Public and Private LibrariesG. P. Putnam's sons, 1900 - 509 pages |
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... reference , guiding one to the best original sources , under each country , and with very readable ex- tructs from the best writers treating on each period , the Lite work of J. N. Larned , " History for Ready Reference , " fve volumes ...
... reference , guiding one to the best original sources , under each country , and with very readable ex- tructs from the best writers treating on each period , the Lite work of J. N. Larned , " History for Ready Reference , " fve volumes ...
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... reference to our authors , with specimens of each , Stedman's Library of American Literature in eleven volumes , should be consult- ed . M C. Tyler's very interesting critical History of the Early American Literature , so little known ...
... reference to our authors , with specimens of each , Stedman's Library of American Literature in eleven volumes , should be consult- ed . M C. Tyler's very interesting critical History of the Early American Literature , so little known ...
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... reference in the form of catalogues and bibliographical works , which may be hereafter noted . My aim has been only to indicate the best and latest treatises covering the leading literatures of the world , having no space for the ...
... reference in the form of catalogues and bibliographical works , which may be hereafter noted . My aim has been only to indicate the best and latest treatises covering the leading literatures of the world , having no space for the ...
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... reference should be the corner - stone of every library collection . In choosing these , regard must be had to secure the latest as well as the best . Never buy the first edition of Soule's Syno- nymes because it is cheap , but insist ...
... reference should be the corner - stone of every library collection . In choosing these , regard must be had to secure the latest as well as the best . Never buy the first edition of Soule's Syno- nymes because it is cheap , but insist ...
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... Reference " will be useful Lere . 3. Biography stands close to history in interest and im- prtance . For general reference , or the biography of all nat.ns , Lippincott's Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Praphy is essential , as well ...
... Reference " will be useful Lere . 3. Biography stands close to history in interest and im- prtance . For general reference , or the biography of all nat.ns , Lippincott's Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Praphy is essential , as well ...
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Page 420 - Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good : Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
Page 173 - Read Homer once, and you can read no more ; For all books else appear so mean, so poor, Verse will seem prose : but still persist to read. And Homer will be all the books you need.
Page 420 - That place, that does Contain my books, the best companions, is To me a glorious court, where hourly I Converse with the old sages and philosophers ; And sometimes for variety I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels ; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account ; and in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.
Page 327 - And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put into form by our great scrivener, Brockden, and, by the help of my friends in the Junto...
Page 428 - This, Books can do; — nor this alone; they give New views to life, and teach us how to live. They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they chastise ; Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise : Their aid they yield to all; they never shun The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone.
Page 320 - I CAN wonder at nothing more than how a man can be idle ; but of all others, a scholar ; in so many improvements of reason, in such sweetness of knowledge, in such variety of studies, in such importunity of thoughts : other artizans do but practise, we still learn ; others run still in the same gyre to weariness, to satiety ; our choice is infinite ; other labors require recreations ; our very labor recreates our sports ; we can never want either somewhat to do, or somewhat that we would do.
Page 488 - SOME COMMON ERRORS OF SPEECH. Suggestions for the Avoiding of Certain Classes of Errors, together with Examples of Bad and of Good Usage. By ALFRED G. COMPTON, Professor in College of the City of New York.
Page 421 - ... comedies; Each tract that flutters in the breeze For him is charged with hopes and fears, In mouldy novels fancy sees Aldines, Bodonis, Elzevirs. With restless eyes that peer and spy, Sad eyes that heed not skies nor trees, In dismal nooks he loves to pry, Whose motto evermore is Spes! But ah! the fabled treasure flees; Grown rarer with the fleeting years, In rich men's shelves they take their ease, — Aldines, Bodonis, Elzevirs!
Page 425 - I LOVE my books as drinkers love their wine ; The more I drink, the more they seem divine ; With joy elate my soul in love runs o'er, And each fresh draught is sweeter than before ! Books bring me friends where'er on earth 1 be, — Solace of solitude, bonds of society.
Page 428 - The noblest road to happiness below; Or men and manners prompt the easy page To mark the flying follies of the age: Whatever good ye boast, that good impart; Inform the head and rectify the heart.