BOOKS.
We get no good By being ungeneixms, even to a book, And calculating profits—so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and *alt of truth— , 'Tie then we get the right good from a book. —E. B. Browning.
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Observer, Volume XL, Issue 24, 14 February 1920, Page 31
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58BOOKS. Observer, Volume XL, Issue 24, 14 February 1920, Page 31
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