Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Rambles in Books
What are books To some people, of course, they are nothing. To the author, they may be the vehicle of ideas which he desires to convey to his fellow-men.
What are books to their owners? Many will say, 0& hand, Something to read, to be sure! - as if the question were an absurd one. Roughly said, the uses of books are threefold - for reference, instantaneously to answer any question which may arise in the mind; for reading, as books of narrative; for mere amusement, as novels. More concisely put - a book is a source of knowledge or of pleasure. If memoirs are provided with indexes, they become books of reference, and thus the three kinds resolve themselves into two.
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