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Show Books and Bangs. -John Kendrick Banks, author of "A Houseboat on the Styx," and "Coffee and Repartee," who is spending the summer at his camp in Maine, said in an interview last week: "People should own and read books just as they should seek friendships, and try to understand their friends. A book that one has come to know, and to love, is one of the truest of friends. In my library in Maine are not many books, but none the less Lincoln walks there with me; Emerson is my friend; Balzac and Dumas are permanent dwellers at my side; I frolic with O. Honry, and I play boyish tricks with Aldrich and Penrod; I fence with Montaigne, Mon-taigne, and the great spirits of "The Spectator." |