"That horrid old 'Girl Reading a Book' has spoiled my whole summer for me," she said, her lips pouting rebelliously.

I have money enough of my own to replace that horrid 'Girl Reading a Book' and two or three more like it.

I confess that it moves my spleen to see these things in books' clothing perched upon shelves, like false saints, usurpers of true shrines, intruders into the sanctuary, thrusting out the legitimate occupants.

Lancelot was not yet past the era at which young geniuses are apt to 'talk book' at little.

be put, we might reply, "Because, unlike any other children in the world, American children are almost as completely 'exposed to books' as are their elders.

The books are waiting in the 'kept books' department.

You are so absorbed in authorship just now, that naturally it is a little hard for the young people; but I suppose there are breathing places, 'between books'?" "There are no breathing places between mine; there will be six volumes, and I am scarcely half through the third, although I have given seven years to the work.

SENATOR LEWIS pursues Matthew Arnold with the conscious air of a half literate man reading a 'great book'.

M. Zola's views are summed up in the words: 'Let all be exposed and discussed, in order that all may be cured!' He regards Neo-Malthusianism and its practices as abominable, and when he had learnt more of the actual situation in England he was emphatically of opinion that his book 'Fecondite,' though applied to France alone, might well, with little alteration, be applied to this country also.

The 'Protection Books' preserved in the Public Record Office form no inconsiderable section of the Admiralty records.

Until the ship was paid off and thus put out of commissionor, in the case of a very long commission, until 'new books' were ordered to be opened so as to escape the inconveniences due to the repetition of large numbers of entriesthe name of every man that had belonged to her remained on the list, his disposalif no longer in the shipbeing noted in the proper column.

When the end came, and each had truly realised what had happened, our mother in a broken voice asked that 'the Books' might be laid on the table; then she gave out that verse in the 107th Psalm 'The storm is changed into a calm At his command and will; So that the waves that raged before, Now quiet are and still.'

E.D. Owen objected to the 'style and tone' of Carlile's 'Every Woman's Book' as not being 'in good taste', and he wrote his 'Moral Physiology', to do in America what Carlile's work was intended to do in England.

He'll potter over his books' 'You mean to tell me,' I interrupted, 'that those books have all been bought out of his wife's thirty shillings a week?' 'No, no.

If he is accustomed to such society and to the perusal of well-written books, he will learn English grammar, though he never sees a word about syntax; and if he is not accustomed to such society and such reading, the 'grammar books' at a boarding-school will not teach it.

And there was a word or two, prettily written in another hand, on a small slip of paper'Perhaps you had better send back the book'; and Caldigate, as he read it, thought that he could discern the almost-obliterated smudge of a wiped-up tear.

And that strange things were in his Prose Canine to a degree: But they called his Viva Voce fair, They said his 'Books' would do; And native cheek, where facts were weak, Brought him triumphant through.

Every thing, whether a brown-paper parcel, a newspaper, an official despatch, a private letter or note is here denominated a 'book,' and this man understood well that newspapers are never received so gladly amongst 'books' from England as letters."

[Footnote 2: Henry de Bracton in his treatise of live books 'de Legibus et Dounsuetudinibus Anglia', written about the middle of the thirteen centry, says (Bk. I. ch.

[Footnote 2: The reference is in the little book 'On Superstition,' where Plutarch quotes Heraclitus to add this comment of his own: 'But to the superstitious man there is no common world, for neither does he use right reason when awake, nor is he freed, when sleeping, from his perturbations.']

[Footnote 3: Tertullian, in his book 'On the Soul,' has seven chapters (43-49) on Sleep and Dreams, with abundant recognition of divine communications to the soul in sleep, and quotations of several authors, sacred and profane.

[Footnote A: See correspondence in Reliquiae Bodleianae, London, 1703.] 'Baggage-books' was the contemptuous expression elsewhere employed to describe this 'light infantry' of literatureBelles Lettres, as it is now more politely designated.

Bodley's rule has proved an expensive one, for the library has been forced to buy at latter-day prices 'baggage-books' it could have got for nothing.

Bodley would not give the divines who were engaged upon a bigger bit of work even than his librarythe translation of the Bible into that matchless English which makes King James's version our greatest literary possessionpermission to borrow 'the one or two books' they wished to see.

"And," continued Nellie carelessly, "how you made us sing out of the same book 'Children of our Father's Fold,' and how you preached at him until he actually got a color!"