Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Fireside Papers
When one is sick at heart, and all that is beau tiful has faded from one's life in dull drab; when radiant hopes have suffered sad eclipse, and the days seem to hold little of worth; when trouble and disappointment gather in dark clouds around one, and the very air seems lonely and charged with death; when all the springs of comfort and strength are dry, then it is that the lover of books turns to them for the companionship that he is sure he can find nowhere else. Blessed, thrice blessed, is the man who in seasons of trou ble and disaster can forget himself and his own little field of misfortune in the larger world of literature. In that bright wonder-world there is medicine for the soul, friendship, pleasure, and new strength for achievement and duty.
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