Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1882 — Books. [ARTICLE]

Books.

Men first made books in Babylon, where they fashioned them out of clay, and baked them like bricks, and they have been at it ever since all over the world, until the accumulated knowledge of ages has reached dimensions that are simply stupendous. Only 1,300 years ago there were but nine books in all England. They were the great and sacred treasures of the monks of Canterbury, and they were the germ of the first English library. There are nearly a million and a quarter of books in the British Museum, and during the last twenty years the great store houses of literature among civilized nations have nearly doubled their contents. “Jane,” he said, “I think if you lifted your feet from the fire We might have some heat in the room.” And they had not been married long.