The Book-Lover - A Guide to the Best Reading #251498

Ook love has ever been my passion; of B its beginning I have no recollection. Although its early opportunities to manifest itself were slight indeed, yet it seemed to me so natural and so very necessary, that as a child I thought everybody ought to be possessed by it in the same manner as myself. That any person could live indif ferent to the allurements of books was a matter of constant wonderment.