Art and Science 



and I have no wish to increase it. I keep my 

 books at the British Museum and at Mudie's, 

 and it makes me very angry if any one gives 

 me one for my private library. I once heard 

 two ladies disputing in a railway carriage as 

 to whether one of them had or had not been 

 wasting money. " I spent it in books," said 

 the accused, "and it's not wasting money to 

 buy books." " Indeed, my dear, I think it 

 is," was the rejoinder, and in practice I agree 

 with it. Webster's Dictionary, Whitaker's 

 Almanack, and Bradshaw's Railway Guide 

 should be sufficient for any ordinary library ; 

 it will be time enough to go beyond these 

 when the mass of useful and entertaining 

 matter which they provide has been mastered. 

 Nevertheless, I admit that sometimes, if not 

 particularly busy, I stop at a second-hand 

 bookstall and turn over a book or two from 

 mere force of habit. 



I know not what made me pick up a 

 copy of ^Eschylus of course in an English 

 version or rather I know not what made 

 ^Eschylus take up with me, for he took me 

 rather than I him ; but no sooner had he got 



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