Men often discover their
affinity to each other
by the mutual love they
have for a book just as
two persons sometimes
discover a friend by the
admiration which both entertain
for a third. There is
an old
proverb, ‘Love me
love my dog.”
But there
is more wisdom in this:” Love me
love my book.”
The book
is a
truer and higher
bond of
union. Men can think
feel, and sympathize with
each other through their
favorite author. They
live in
him together,
and he in
them.
A good book is often the best
urn
of a life enshrining the
best that
life could think out;
for the
world of a man’
