68 THROUGH LIBRARY WINDOWS 



that once toiled so laboriously, are giving as 

 they silently reach out over us and over their 

 own books. No wonder such books live and 

 throb with holy pulsations, and kindle thought 

 and intensify life. Every good book is the life- 

 blood of some worthy genius. So many books 

 are dead — fell dead from the press — there 

 were never any life-throes in their birth, writ- 

 ten for money, for fame, for self, and not be- 

 cause the thought burned within and must be 

 given to the world, as the old prophets gave 

 their messages. He is wise who has gathered 

 into his library, life and heart books. They 

 never grow old, never are out of date, always 

 full and overflowing, the product of the world's 

 best thinking. 



The library is a wonderful place to live in, 

 there is no room quite its equal in the home life, 

 it is the center for heart and brain. Here have 

 been new births, new ideals have sprung up and 

 led on, new visions have proved inspirations. 

 We do not always know how to live in it and 

 utilize its profit, ofttimes the well is deep and 

 one has nothing to draw with. It is a luxury to 

 own books, it is a greater to know them, still 

 greater to have the cultured power and char- 

 acter that they are able to give. One may 

 have great pleasure in pictures, in music, with- 



