LOVERS OF BOOKS.
Readers in bygone ages wcto counted by tens; the.v loved tho books they read and handled them with reverence aud.caro, says C. Ha.jibe.rg .Wright in tho "Nino, tcenfch Coulury." They-seem now to havo ■deteriorated, and; "scarcely, to love books in tho way 'their ancestors loved them; too often they handle them as bricks and buy them as furniture; tliev even mutilate them. Through all changes,- booklovers havo remained lovers of books, though some of them in our day have dogenerated into biblio-maniacs.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1240, 23 September 1911, Page 10
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85LOVERS OF BOOKS. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1240, 23 September 1911, Page 10
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