Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-01
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES z. TRACEEELL.

| The attrition Of time may wear q
book collection down, Of course A man
with hobby will collect books upon
his speciality; then time may give him
other hobbies, with decline in inter-
est In the former
At this point the collector will be
willing to part with the books which
he gathered upon the former hobby. In
order to make room, perhaps, for newer
volumes, or simply to give later vol
umes q place In his shelves.
| A careful wedding out of the home
cases Is necessary process. Either it
may be made continued story or held
over for certain time every year. Even
when a book must go, the booklover Is
! lOeth to part with 1t. For he had at
one time placed the stamp of his APP
prevail upon it. That meant something
then, and should mean something now,
although perhaps not as much.
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| We do not believe that any one,
whether ne pretends to the proud title
| of booklover or not. seriously means to
dispense with the personal book COL
lection. the permanent collection, II
you please.
Stiff covers by no means make q col
lection of words sacred, but they DO help
make 1t permanent, and, possessing
that quality, it deserves to come into
its own. In world where things change
and vanish overnight.
II man chooses hts books with
some common sense, forgetting the
sophisticated chatter which froWns upo,l
all old things. he will find that time
alone can give him certain book
ENJOYMENT.
There is the initial pleasure of a
book comprising It's mere physical
handling and it's first reading Per-
haps no other book thrill can compare
with the first reading. especially in
! fiction.
But time alone can give one true
book pleasure. and that is the re-read-
ing years later Say not that 1t would
be possible to go to the Public Library
and get a copy of the book 20 years
later 1t would, of course, but how
much better is 1t to take down the
identical volume one read so many
| years ago!
There is something personal, some
thing private, which makes its appeal
to the individualized person. In pass
ing. it may be stated that not every
human being is an individualized per-
son. Thousands live as though under
some combination Spartan-Soviet, where
! life Is ordered from central headquar-
| JGTS, Will OH lAdANA0uoAAsy AA~cNA~Ss
and blocked of by master minds. :.
The true individual, no matter what
| his race color or other condition, wants
to do what he wants to do, when ne
wants to do it, and largely because ne
wants to do it. If he is civilized, and
cultured his wants will be within the
law, because he recognizes the sanctlty
of the law, and its place both With MN
and with others.
In the matter of his books, no man
| can dedicate to him which ones to
read. because he knows better than his
masters which books please and help
MIN. He scorns ofhand judgments
with many setting themselves up as
experts" without knowing or caring
whether their judgments are righteous.
He knows that yonder little book,
which most of his friends overlook
with huge confidence born OF igno-
rance, exactly meets the needs OF his
own mind and heart. To them, II Ii
nothing worth reading; to him It Is
one OF the great things OF the written
world
And 80 there YOU arel 1t Is because
all books have different appeals to the
minds of men that most DOCKS are
worth keeping The book another
scorns may hold the place OF honor on
YOUR home shelves. Time, old wonder
worker. may bring q forgotten DOCK
into universal esteem. Then Wnat
pleasure 1t is to 60 10 ones home coll
lection and take down the very book
which others are rushing to the stores
TO and!