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...there are some books that we want to have by us, and in our own libraries, yet are unable to pay the outrageous prices asked for them. It makes little difference if I read Lamb in full Russia, blue and gold, or the abominable yellow cover; in point of fact, one enjoys a novel or essay quite as much when the cover can be turned back and the book rather familiarly used. The imposing libraries that impart an air of wonderful erudition to the regal house of many a merchant, do their only duty in doing as much as this...
...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 in buying freely...
...habits of the people they illustrate. As students, the greater part of us are too indifferent to study a history in connection with our reading, but would willingly listen to a course of lectures involving no further effort on our part than an occasional note. This is a want really felt, and we hope it soon will be supplied...
...want to be a Harvard...
Little Johnny will not want them...