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Public, College, and Society libraries may be serviceable, and are undoubtedly necessary. No private individual can hope to acquire so large, so valuable, or so comprehensive a collection of books as a rich and well-managed library. The great benefit of any library is that it has books on all...
If Boston publishers would take in hand the subject of cheap publications of the best and most popular books, the whole country would be the gainer. Something of the kind has been done by that enterprising house Messrs. Estes and Lauriat, and their "Half-Hour Recreations in Popular Science" are...
The newspaper may be a "mighty engine" and "a great cultivator," but Americans want something more than ephemeral newspaper literature, and the time has come for cheap books. When the best works of the standard authors can be bought at moderate prices, men of moderate means will not be slow...
One reference, however, to "the temper of the age" I shall make, because it may thus be seen that the system of teaching which, in this day, puts Greek authors at a point so distant from us as to be discouraging to all and inaccessible to most is necessarily bad...
Does a student come to his instructor with a budding appreciation of the "divine philosophy," or feeling within himself something responsive to the passion and the pathos of Euripedes "the human," then let his youthful ardor be fed with a list of the fifty manuscripts of the work in hand...