DELIGHT IN BOOKS
All through the years I have never lacked a waiting list of books to be read, writes Margaret Williamson in the' ‘ Christian Science Monitor.’ My appetite, too, was inexhaustible and ready impulse has led me straight to the book required at the moment. 1 may as well admit that 1 acquire more books than I can possibly digest. They wait their turn, and some never receive the attention they deserve. Now and then one which has waited patiently for weeks is suddenly lifted to the level of the eyes—and 10, a great new world unfolds. Suppose they are never read at all? What does ic matter? They ;take their proud places_on my shelves—crisp and clean and enticing. Just having them there is an anticipation, a joy, an encouragement. Only to be able to stretch out a hand and stroke them. Only to handle them, feel their smoothness, .weigh their potentialities. Yes, I like them close about me, heaped up and waiting, ready when .1 call.
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Evening Star, Issue 23864, 19 April 1941, Page 4
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168DELIGHT IN BOOKS Evening Star, Issue 23864, 19 April 1941, Page 4
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