Companionable Books
Author: first_name: Henry
last_name: van Dyke
Language: English
Year: 1922

Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed orange; but some have in them an unfailing sap, both from the tree of knowledge and the tree of life.  Here I have written about a few of these books which have borne me good company, in one way or another, -- and about their authors, who have put the best of themselves into their work.  Such criticism as the volume contains is therefore mainly in the form of