THROUGH LIBRARY WINDOWS 9 



to take and read and rekindle old fires, glowing 

 with love and lifel 



What a world of valuable material is stored 

 away in this library, what memories cling to it 

 all, what subtle laws of association are ever 

 weaving one's life through the passing years 

 into rich and varied textures in which the som- 

 ber threads of care and work are delicately in- 

 terwoven with the soft hues of love and 

 the splendid dyes of imagination; feelings, 

 thoughts, purposes and actions are no longer 

 detached and isolated, rather are they blended 

 into the fulness of life ever palpitating with 

 keenest emotions and aspirations. "One's toil 

 or study gathers sweetness from the thought of 

 those to whose comfort it ministers ; one's books 

 are enriched by the consciousness of the im- 

 measurable life that has flowed into them and 

 will flow on through them; one's friends stand 

 for genius and art and religion and noble 

 achievement, and so our human life ceases to 

 be a single strain and becomes a harmony of 

 many chords each suggesting and deepening 

 the melody of every other ! 

 "My library does not isolate me from the 

 world of business and society and reform. The 

 fact is, I am never so near the world of thought; 

 and emotion and toil and struggle as when in 



