Hints for Home Reading

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Excerpt from Hints for Home Reading: A Series of Chapters on Books and Their Use The home ought no more to be without a library than without a dining room and kitchen. If you have but one room, and it is lighted by the great wood fire in the flaming fireplace, as Abraham Lincoln's was, do as Abraham Lincoln did: pick out one corner of your fireplace for a library, and use it. Every man ought to provide for the brain as well as for the stomach. This does not require capital, there are now cheap editions of the best books, it only requires time and forecast. We write in a private library, and a fairly good one for working purposes, of three thousand and odd volumes, we began it twenty years ago, on a salary of $1, 000 a year, with five books - a commentary in four volumes and a dictionary. The best libraries are not made, they grow. In forming a library, if your means are small, do not buy what you can beg or borrow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.