Through Library Windows 



CHAPTER I. 



OUR LIBRARY. 



The library in our home is the living-room, 

 a brain and heart center. We have made it 

 of set purpose the cosiest room. Books, pic- 

 tures, sunshine and delight add emphasis and 

 give most agreeable life-tints, blending harmo- 

 niously. The world of nature is out of doors 

 yonder, we see it in miniature through our 

 library windows and it is ever refreshing and 

 inviting. But the world of thought and emo- 

 tion, of human prowess in all its wide ranges 

 is here within these four walls, packed into 

 these living shelves. Here is history and travel, 

 poetry and fiction ; we read it all and the pano- 

 rama of history passes before us as a splendid 

 pageant, the beauties of literature play the 

 whole gamut of emotion, the glory of art mir- 

 rors the ages, the grandeur and achievements 

 of science electrify, the subtilties of philosophy 

 stimulate and unfold the mental powers, reli- 



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