some readers and students of books,
and especially those who are at the
beginning of the ardours, the de-
lights, and the perplexities of the
book-lover, that these chapters are
undertaken. They assume nothing
on the part of the reader but a de-
sire to know the best that has been
written; they promise nothing on
the part of the writer but a frank
and familiar use of experience in a
pursuit which makes it possible for
the individual life to learn the les-
sons which universal life has learned,
and to piece out its limited personal
experience with the experience of
humanity. One who loves books,
like one who loves a particular bit
of a country, is always eager to make
others see what he sees; that there
have been other lovers of books and
views before him does not put him

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