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Excerpt from What I Know About Books: And How to Use Them
Impressed with this notion, some time since, when considering this subject, we took our stand opposite an old bookstore. All classes and conditions seemed to be represented by those who went within or loitered near the portal. Well-dressed men, clerical-looking persons, the mistress of the typewriter, and even the messenger boy stopped to look at the books piled up without any real arrangement upon shelves and tables, and offered upon the lowest terms.
There is certainly something very remarkable in the fascination to possess literature. Shrewd merchants have not been slow to detect profit for themselves in this element of human na ture. The old-fashioned corner bookstore of Boston finds a rival in the dry-goods palace and the railway news stand, where the passenger is led into the purchase of a book that perhaps he really wants, but more likely does not need.
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