Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1910 — LIBRARY LORE [ARTICLE]

LIBRARY LORE

Good books need no gush. A best seller gathers no dust. Circumstances alter bookcases. Every dog-eared tome had its day. It is an ill book that hath no index. The genealogist Js the thief of time. Many rare books aTe not well done. A five-foot shelf to the wise is sufficient The longest Congressional Record hath its end. A book in the hand is worth two in the card catalogue. You may lead a -reader to a book, but you cannot make him think.—Life.