Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Book-Song: An Anthology of Poems of Books and Bookmen From Modern Authors
This passion, acting on very different natures, is apt to excite very similar utterance. For instance, expressions of delight in the pleasure of possession, apart from the pleasure of study, might be quoted from Horace, or the ancients, or the latest rhymer. Richard de Bury, Montaigne, and the great cloud of witnesses Mr. Alexander Ireland gathers to gether in his book-lover's Enchiridion, need but to be named in passing as proof of this well-nigh universal habit of joying in the ownership of the dead bodies with living souls, those immortals who remain alway to mould the destinies of men, though creeds are forgotten and the gods themselves are dead.
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