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OW easily one may distinguish a genu ine lover of books from a worldly (q3 man I With what subdued and yet glowing enthusiasm does he gaze upon the costly_ front of a thousand embattled volumes! How gently he draws them down, as if they sewere little children; how tenderly he hand les them! He peers at the title page, at the text, or the notes, with the nicety of a bird examining a ?ower. He studies the binding the leather, russia, English calf, morocco; the lettering, the gilding, the *from Star Pape1s, by Henry Ward Beecher.edging, the hinge of the cover! He opens it and shuts it; he holds it oil and brings it nigh. It suffuses his whole body with book magnetism. He walks up and down in a maze at the mysterious allotments of Providence, that gives so much money to men who spend it upon their appetites, and so little to men who would spend it in benevolence or upon their refined tastes! It is astonishing, too, how one's necessi ties multiply in the presence of the supply. One never knows how many things it is impossible to do without till he goes to Windle's or Smith's house-furnishing stores. One is surprised to perceive, at some bazaar or fancy and variety store, how many conveniences he needs. He is satis fied that his life must have been utterly inconvenient aforetime. And thus, too, one is 1nwardly convicted, at Appletons', which he is now satisfied that one cannot live without!
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