Levi L. Barbour. Nenir of Wich Ann Arbor. BOHN'S STANDARD LIBRARY. SCHILLER'S WORKS. HISTORICAL AND DRAMATIC. 5234 t mee 1860 "Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness during life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amis the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.........Give this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of n him a happy man; unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most pe selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in period of history-with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the b and the purest characters who have adorned humanity. You make denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has created for him."-SIR JOHN HERSCHEL. Address on the Opening Eton Library, 1833. |