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The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defence. -- LANGFORD.
I HAVE confessed that I am of the company of book-lovers who delight in dipping into the ‘lucky-tubs' to be found outside booksellers' windows. I know of no pleasanter way of spending a spare half-hour. Give me a few ‘loose' coppers, place my feet upon a likely road, and I am content. I am now, let me say, of the happy company of _book-fishermen_. And this, mark you, is fishing in real earnest, this effort to ‘hook' good food for the mind, to place in one's basket a ‘book that delighteth and giveth perennial satisfaction.'