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Show oo About Books. I preXer always to learn .from the author himself how he did think, than to hear from another .bow he ought to have thought. How often tho cursory reading of a book, which Irresistibly carries one with It, exercised the greatest influence influ-ence on a man's whole life, and produced pro-duced at once a decisive efftct, which neither a second perusal nor earnest reflootiou can olther strengthen strength-en or modify. I turn bock toward the beloyed ancients an-cients who still constantly, like distant dis-tant blue mountains, distinct In their outlneB and masses, but Indiscernible In their parts and Internal relations, bound tho horizon of my Intellectual wishes. ! Always fortunate Is that epoch In I a literature when the great works of the past again Hbo up as If thawed, and como Into notice, because they then produce a perfectly fresh effect Goethe. |