by Peggy Edmund and Harold W. Williams, compilers
BOOKS AND READING
LADY PRESIDENT—"What book has helped you most?"
NEW MEMBER—"My husband's check-book."— Martha Young
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"You may send me up the complete works of Shakespeare, Goethe and Emerson—also something to read."
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There are three classes of bookbuyers: Collectors, women and readers.
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The owner of a large library solemnly warned a friend against the practice of lending books. To punctuate his advice he showed his friend the well-stocked shelves. "There!" said he. "Every one of those books was lent me."
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In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest.— Bulwer-Lytton
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the Printers have lost.— Fuller
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Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
— Sir John Denham
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A man meeting another coming from the library with a book accosted him as follows:
"What book you done got there, Rastus?"
"'Last Days of Pompeii.'"
"Last days of Pompey? Is Pompey dead? I never heard about it. Now what did Pompey die of?"
"I don't 'xactly know, but it must hab been some kind of 'ruption."
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"I don't know what to give Lizzie for a Christmas present," one chorus girl is reported to have said to her mate while discussing the gift to be made to a third.
"Give her a book," suggested the other.
And the first one replied meditatively, "No, she's got a book."— Literary Digest
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