New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-07
AUTUMN AND HOLIDAY BOOKS
Classified Lists of Those Now Ready and IN
Preparation from All the Publishing Houses.
READING AS A PAsTIME AND A Profession.

mat the first ross have come and the bright and
out crisp October days make look forward to long
evenings spent around glowing wood fire. eagerly
welcome the announcements of the new books which
are to furnish large proportion Of our Winter reading
mere Is nothing like the fire the hearth with it's
cheerful song and the indescrbaby sweet odor Of the
burning hickory logs pine knots such as Lincoln
READ by, to add zest to Winter reading The flames
from such fires often bright enough read by with
perfect ease during the early Winter twilight before one
is quite ready for other lights. But the CRATE fire OF
camel coal or coke has its charms, too and many
day dream has been induced by watching the cheerful
and eyer-changing fame pictures. bookish writer,
not half so well known he deserves to be- j. Rogers
Rees in his Pleasures Of a Bookworm" writes: We
cannot well imagine greater pleasure than to sit Of
Winter evening by coy freside deep in favor
tie volume. At such Ossian cannot fail to
throw his spell around and the raging Of the storm
without and the rattle OF the easement but many
wild, weird choTuses to his songs"
Never would il that lists Of Autumn books
were longer richer than the present time Natur
ally the excitement last year made the Autumn
lists smaller than usual but now we have all sorts Of
good books promised us and in the greatest abundance
The only difficulty is in choosing which to take and
which to leave from a list which should make strong
appeal to all sorts and conditions of men.
There are one or two points which should
like to advise young readers. First. il is much more
important to choose really good books read and add
to ones shelves than possess and skim over the
many. 1t is one thing to have read book, but quito
another read it. The pleasure and profit to be de-
rived from good book like jests prosperity do
not depend upon fits maker alone. The reader must
bring to it a certain keen interest careful Weighing
Of its statements and more less knowledge Of the
subject treated Indeed the wider the range Of ones
reading the is apt find in any book that is
worthy of the name.
There are many people well enough educated and
who have been reading for years, who only find
pleasure in certain narrowly restricted lines Of reading
II would that such readers have not succeeded in
getting all that is possible of books for We quite
agree with Leigh Hunt of the most delightful OF all
writers upon bookish topics. when he says:
A univcrsalist in one high autographed respect
may be said tc be- the only reader for he is tho
only reader on whom no writing is lost Too many peo
pie approve books but such representative OF
some opinion possession of their own. Ihey read
to have human nature reflected on them and so be
taught to know and love everything but 10 be reflected
themselves a. i'm pocket mirror ana so interchange
admiring looks with their narrow cast of cOun-
tenance. The uuiycr-alis alone puts up with differ
cnccs of opinion hy Of his own very differences;
because his difference a right claimed by him in the
spirit of universal allowance. and not privilege AFRO
gated by concoit He loves poetry and prose- hcton
and seriousness and mrth because he IS
thorough human being. and contains portions OF all
the faculties % which they appeal A man VINO can 10
nothing but serious nothing but merry is but nan
man. The lachumal or the risile organs are want
ing i'm him The uni ersalfst is the only read
or who can make something ont Of books for which no
has not prediecuon
Many people who are careful in the extreme as TO
the friends they make and The places they frequent
will admit any book to certain intimacy be it never
so trashy or weak perhaps even baneru In rs IN
auonccs vast proportion even Of the best books
win never DO known TO from lack OF time to read
hom and yet in such crcum tarces most Of MS waste
orr time on books that are unworthy The inendshps
We make in life are very much governed by force OF
circumstances by our onyiioament our worldly STA
tfon and 10 some extent By cur individual characters
and conversational powers We cannot kno" "hon we
y-fu but only whom we may: nor can We have our
friends with MS al all times; but our friends the DOCKS
are always ready As RusAn says:
They can be- kept waiting round MS an gay !ols no.
10 Grant audience ont to give it, Kings ana statesmen
lingering maternity i'm those plainly FURNISHED ana mat
Row, onfcrooms our bookcase shelves ms
r,+ Of the mas, differs from all other arisocr@cy IN
his. il is open TO labor and TO merit ana 10 noLihs
also No wealth will brihe name overa"e no "r'',e
deceive tho guardian Of those Elysian gates. 10 10
,, a. I'D be The COM anio OF AoJies. MANI 'V"~0'i