The Private Library: What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Of amusement as the hilliard-room, where the men are usually to he found. Books are much more amusing than hilliards, and you may learn to play in jest or work in earnest with hooks just as you take to any other amusement. The whole truth is that at present hooks do not get a proper share of attention, and it is with the desire to remedy such a condition of things that I have printed this little volume, con taining things that we do know, that we don't know.

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