Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 260, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1913 — Among His Books. [ARTICLE]

Among His Books.

Exactly what it means to be "literary" is an open questiox Sometimes it implies that a person writes, sometimes merely that he is a lover of good reading. A new definition is suggested in the following story from the Denver Republican: /’Smith doesn’t strike me as literary," remarked a man, “yet he declares that he never feels so comfortable as when he is snugly settled in his library." “Oh, that’s not surprising,” explained his companion. "Smith’s bookcase is a folding bed.”