Princeton University - Nassau Herald Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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New Ymk Qiiiyo EUJIIFTEGSWQIDIU Hollse-, Eimmdlway X and QQDUHH Surf-eau HENRY Jo EINQ9 VIKQIVRUETQIK

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............ - ...... ' ...................................... A PROFESSOR OF BOOKS -.,,.,,S,,,,,f . 25.1.1 ...... I ....... I ................ X ....... I . , ..... H .... I .................................. QV- In glancing through one of the early volumes of Charles Dudley Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature, we met, in the Emerson section, au extract from one of the sage's fine pages that ran in this wise : Meantime the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no pro- fessor of books g and I think, no chair is so much wanted. It is doubtful if any phrase could so happily describe at once the. function and the achievement of Mr. Warner in his new and great work. He himself is essentially a professor of books, although the charm of his work has tended to .make us forget his wide and varied learning. And knowing not only books, but living writers and critics as well, Mr. Warner has gathered around him as advisers and aids other pro- fessors of books, not men of the Dryasdust school, but those who possess the same salient charm and graphic power as himself. h The result of this remarkable literary movement has been to provide the great reading public, the busy public of ever scant leisure, with just what Emerson declared more than half a century ago we so much needed, namely, a guide to the best reading. Emerson indeed likens a li- , brary of miscellaneous books to a N lottery wherein there are a hundred i blariks to Hon? tprize, anlcnl fipagly exe aims a some c ari a e soul, after losing a great deal of time among the false books, and alighting upon a few true ones which made him happy and wise, would do a right-act in naming tlgose gvhich have beets bridggs ii:- s ips o carry nn sa e yover ar morasses andbarren oceans into the heart of sacred cities, into palaces and temples. This is precisely what Mr. Warner's new library does in the fine, critical articles which preface the master-works of the greatest writers. Enactly as the professor of chemistry or physics or astronomy or biolovfy gives the student a view of the whole field of his science, the summary of its achievements, its great names and its great works, so Mr. 'Warner and his associates have given ns the dis- tillation, not merely of the whole world's literature, in itself a colos- sal attempt, but, in addition, its fs' history, biography, and criticism as well. It is only when we grasp its full import that we realize the truly vast and monumental char- ZICUSI' of the Library. It must assuredly rank as one of the most notable achievements ofthe century. That there is a wide-spread desire among all classes to possess these thirty treasure volumes clearly appears from the num ber and character ofthe letters which are coming faq? far and nesir tobthe Harper's Weekly Club, through which a portion of the iirst e 1 ion is ceing istri uted. Although the first edition is the most desirable, because printed from the fresh, new plates, the publishers, instead of advancing the price, have actually reduced -it nearly half, so as to quickly place a few sets in each community for inspection. The demand for the most desirable Iirst edition is so active, and the number of sets allotted to be distributed 15,50 limited, it is safest for those who really covet this invalu- able Library of Mr. Warner's to write at once to Hai-per's Weekly Club, QI Fifth Avenue, New York, for sample pages and special prices to members of the Club now forming, and which will close the last day of the present month. n . RALPH Wfitoo Emzizsorr.

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