Show must books be read the collector of books need not fear ear the challenge that is sure to be made sooner or later by his skeptical acquaintances have you read them all the first idea he ought to get out of his head is that he must only buy books for immediate reading the charm of a library said that devout book lover the late arnold bennett is seriously impaired when one has read the whole or nearly the whole of its contents bennett confessed that he had hundreds of books he had never opened and which perhaps he never would open but he would not part with them he knew they were good and as he gazed on them he said to them some day if chance favors your turn will come be patient tl I 1 liverpool post |