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Title: By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects
Author : William Davenport Adams
Release Date : January 01, 1891
Genre: Fiction & Literature,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 581 KB

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The writer for the most part deals with small subjects in an elaborate manner. He leaves the highways of literature, and strays into the fields and lanes, picking here a flower and there a leaf, and not going far at any time. There is no endeavour to explore with system, or to extend any excursion beyond a modest ramble. one is for ever hearing enough and to spare about old books and those who love them. There is a whole literature of the subject. The men themselves, from Charles Lamb downwards, have over and over again described their ecstasies—with what joy they have pounced upon some rare edition, and with what reverence they have ever afterwards regarded it.