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But other booklovers who are very close kin to me, and whose taste I know to be better than mine, read Miss Austen all the time and, moreover, they are very kind, and never pity me in too offensive a manner for not reading her myself.
The numbers of the books that are taken out from public libraries are not all that we could wish. I am not going to inflict many figures on you, but there is one set of these figures that distresses booklovers, I mean the enormous place that fiction occupies in the books that are taken out. In one great town in the North prose fiction forms 76 per cent of all the books lent.
And after all, if a primrose on a river's brim, but a yellow primrose was to them, what did it matter to me? I visited the bibliothèque, which was haunted by a fragrance intoxicating to booklovers, of dead centuries, leather bindings, and parchment.
Yet, on second thought, there would appear to be some reason for the fact that ardent lovers of Thackeray are rarely devotees of the mighty Charles or vice versa. There is something mutually exclusive in the attitude of the two, their different interpretation of life. If you make a wide canvass among booklovers, it will be found that this is just what happens.
Or a grief to booklovers! the same eye is occupied by all the grotesquerie of insect life in the revel over that unhappy tome lurking in the plum tree's crevice of Browning's Garden Fancy, which creeps and crawls with beetle and spider, worm and eft.
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