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Give me leave / T' enjoy myself; that place that does contain / My books, the best companions, is to me / A glorious court, where hourly I converse / With the old sages and philosophers; / And sometimes for variety, I confer / With kings and emperors, and weigh their counsels. / BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.
IT is good to think of the many captivating personalities one has met on one's rambles through ‘Bookland' -- to greet again with extended hands the genial Vicar immortalized by Goldsmith, to ponder in one's mind his godly charity, to listen enthralled to his delicate and gracious observations. It is good, I say, to set forth on a ‘mental pilgrimage' to the homes of the entertaining folk who were first made known to us through those ‘little sheets of paper,' and who are ever ready to ‘amuse us, teach us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.'