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Putnam's Library Companion Volume 2 by Books Group

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Author: Books Group
Page Count: 46 pages
Published Date: 05 Mar 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781130874921
File Name: Putnam's.Library.Companion.Volume.2.pdf
Download Link: Putnam's Library Companion Volume 2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 Excerpt: ...longer term than it accords in the case of his later and presumably more mature works, or give protection for a great number of years in the case of a man who writes a book at twenty-five and lives to be seventy, and for a much smaller number of years in the case of a man who writes a book at twenty-five and dies at thirty. A fixed term of half a century from the date of registration, that date being necessarily affixed to a book, in order to make the republication of it illegal, 40 ON THE CARE OF BOOKS. ON THE CARE OF BOOKS. (From the London Saturday Reirieiv.) The spread of circulating libraries, it is to be feared, does a great deal to foster bad habits in the care of books. These institutions tend to breed a democratic disrespect of the personality of books, and they encourage the lax notions already only too prevalent with regard to property in the book form. With many people the raison d'Stre of a book is to be borrowed; the owner owns it that he may lend it, and the borrower is in no way bound to take care that he returns it as he got it--if, indeed, he returns it at all. For bringing out any latent selfishness there may be in the character there is nothing like a borrowed book. The man who will be as careful of your horse as of his own. who will make a point of sending back your overcoat scrupulously brushed, and will even remember to return your umbrella, will not have the self-denial to refrain from reading your book over a fire or under buttered toast. When you see a page decorated with a complete. solar system of grease-spots, you may depend upon it the book has been lent; that was never the doing of its lawful owner. Jagged edges tell the same tale; the book borrower trusted with an uncut book will cut the leaves with anything that comes to han...

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