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gion opens doors and gives wider visions of the 

 inspiring realities beyond. 



Our library is both ideal and real ; it occupies 

 the ground floor, the double parlor on the left 

 as you enter, and looks out into the garden 

 from three sides, east, south and west, and is 

 full of light and cheer. Cicero said: "A library 

 is the soul of the house"; it surely ornaments 

 it, endows it, vitalizes it and peoples it. One's 

 home ought not to be without its library any 

 more than without its kitchen or dining-room. 

 It is not elegance of room, nor multiplication 

 of books, nor superb pictures, nor charming 

 bric-a-brac, that makes a library. One book 

 will do it, providing it is read and loved. But 

 books are cheap and so the best books are 

 within easy reach of the ordinary purse, or at 

 least the public library is accessible to all. 

 "Knowledge hunger" is the only vital condition 

 of a home library and of a good education. 



That reading is most valuable that secures 

 the richest results. We cannot all be great 

 scholars, but we can be educated and know that 

 knowledge is power. The busiest life has 

 margins of time and opportunity, like the bor- 

 ders of the old Missals, to enrich and exalt 

 the common places written thereon. To read 

 with purpose and judgment is the key to the 



