Show TOO MANY BOOK baraby rich in his preface to A new description of ireland Irelan df published in 1600 writes one of the diseases of this age ia is the multitude of books that doth so overcharge the world that it ie Is not able to digest the abundance of idle matter that ia is every day hatched and broi brought ight into the world that are as divers in their forms as their authors nn are in their faces it is but a thriftless and thankless occupation his this writing of books A man were letter better to sit singing in a cobblers cob blees shop for his pay is certainly a penny a patch I 1 but a book writer if he gets sometimes a few commendations of the judicious he r shall hall be pure fure to reap a thou thousand reproaches of the malicious p 1 |