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Show Eccentricity Jn Literary Taste. Curious whims are occasionally shown by readers at the Public library. There was a woman who resrularlv everv Fri- uay came tor a volume of sermons. Bhe did not mind whose sermons, nor what the subject, so long as they were religious reli-gious discourses of some sort, Monday she would come back, return the sermons ser-mons and take out a novel to unbend her mind until the next Friday, when the sermons would again be in demand. There was another woman who would never read anything but a religious novel, as she called it, net such a one as "Ben-Hur" or one with a particular religious tenet to inculcate, hut a book with a clergyman as its chief character. Swinburne's "Heavenly Arcana" was read daily for years ;by an eccentric eccen-tric old gentleman. He would draw the book, keep it two weeks, return it with his place marked and call early the next morning to take it out again. He never took anv other hftk from he library, and finally died," leaving his place marked as usual. . There is one old man who will never read a book written by a woman. He reads good books continually, but will have nothing noth-ing to do with a volume bearing a woman's wo-man's name as its. author. Boston Herald. |