OLD BOOKS.
New books for old, if cried through the streets, might bring the crier not a few treasures almost as precious as Aladdin’s wonderful lamp. A hasty and afterwards much regretted exchange of this sort was not long ago made by Sir Herbert Maxwell, a:; report avers, and he is now cautioning others to learn a lesson from ins experience. Desiring the latest edition of a standard work of reference, and feeling unwilling to pay out the ijUo demanded for ic oy the bookseller, he searched his library for something do otter in exchange, and chanced upon a set of the Sporting Magazine complete (1793-1870), which he innocently offered for the reference work. The offer was accepted without delay. Not many weeks afterwards ho experienced a sensation* upon reading that a set of the periodical in question had just been sold at auction foi 0950. And now he is advising deliberation and care in the needing out of old hooks from one’s library.— The Dial.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 83, 15 April 1913, Page 7
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