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Show raw Itoeha, l,ut llna-l Una. In tlio dlatant daya when I wan a 1-oy, booki at any rito among us achoolboya In rccltided Ifona wero not ratlly procurable. We po-vw-ecd but few ouraaliea, bad never heanlof ilrculallng libraries and raw only ono wkly ncwapaper, If wn aw anynt nlL l'crlmpa the mcalern echoollioy, who rendi bait a doren new.iarr. Mho liollm familiar to boot with nil thu tportlng tiowapipcn and nil tlio ''aneWy'' newrpnjicrri, nnd all the literary lit-erary and rclliim Juurnali, nnd who, laaldea awlinmin every diy In tlico tnrlild watcm ol populir nurnalm, iniyturtrit and antlito hlmrelf wltli arriipa and tld bid nnd ..hilling ahoek era, mid tioicla with grriuand yellow Kiel., nnd aenaational htcraturo of every ev-ery poMlblcdcecrlptloii, may be Inclined to regard li with pity ruery U night oil belnta. 1 tlilnk, on tho contrary, tliat wero dlillnct -allien by not l lug burled under mountain loadauf nonentity nnd rubbiali Wocouldgtt hold of HIr Walter Bi-otfa nocla, nnd reiiluii ro Cooper's nml Cupt, Marry nta,mel bad rend thorn nil and ill i-uaeeil their character among our. Miea Canon I', Vf. l'nrmr la l'o-rum. |