book-fair

Updated: June 12, 2025

We read nowadays in the market-place I would rather say in some large steam factory of letter-press, where damp sheets of new print whirl round us perpetually if it be not rather some noisy book-fair where literary showmen tempt us with performing dolls, and the gongs of rival booths are stunning our ears from morn till night.

- English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice