McCLURE’S 
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“A PROFESSOR OF BOOKS ’’-encesos 
In glancing. through one of the early vol- 
umes of Charles Dudley Warner’s 
of the Wor Ad: 
the Emerson section, an extract from one of 
s fine pages tl hat ran in this wise: 
. ce the yileges, whilst they pro- 
s Best 
vide us with li casas S, furnish r no oops of 
much 
books; and, I think. no chair is so 
wanted.” 
It is doubtful if 
any phrase could 
so happily describe 
at once the func- 
tion and the 
I f Mr. 
Wa — in his new 
ing. And knowing 
not only books but 
Literature,” we met, in 
which made him happy and wise, would do 
a right act in naming those which have been 
bridges or ships to carry him safely over dar 
‘ < 
Fai 
of sacred cities into palaces and temples. 
his is precisely what Me. Varner's new 
library « does in the fine, critical articles which 
preface the mast sa A of the greatest 
th ak of our 
greatest man o r iet 
ters, what volume 
shall w select ? 
There are ten OF 
eleven others [ 
ch oose from 1. Loo: k- 
ing into ars War- 
xer’s Library 
owoned movement has been 
at readin g public, the busy 
[ an 
Emerson declared more than 
—. we so mucn Seis nani a guide t 
ra 
I sa lib sath of miscel- 
laneous books to a lottery wherein there are 
a hundred blanks to one prize, and finall 
exclaims that ‘‘some charitable soul, ohne 
lo: sing a great deal of time among the false 
books and a lighting upon a few true ones, 
Rartex Wap 
com pri se 
himself, 
sev € 
of the OF 
‘ toci 
has succeeded 
sts 1 irs ¢ 
rty-five,” and — 
through thir E ob the 
half! But who, even among those peieest ae 
themselves well read, 1 have despatched t us con 
five volumes of the great German, or ook 
half or third of thirty-five ? Neverthe: 
