Confessions of a Book-lover【電子書籍】[ E. Walter Walters ]

Confessions of a Book-lover【電子書籍】[ E. Walter Walters ]

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<p>PART of the present volume appeared in Great Thoughts. Yet here am I, whose name is associatedーif at allーin the memory of readers with ‘little thoughts,’ and with booklets impudent in the slenderness of their matter, presumptuously standing forth to bow the public into the writer’s presence, and essaying to introduce the one to the other. The necessary explanation shall be brief. I must have been a young man, and Mr. E. Walter Walters a boy, when he and I last met; indeed I am not sure that I altogether remember him. But his father, who bore an honoured name, I well remember. The Rev. W. D. Walters and my own dear and honoured father were personal friends; and when the former’s son sent me a manuscript of a book, with the request that I should write an introduction, how could I do otherwise than accede, and express myself honoured by the invitation? That I share all Mr. Walters’s whole-hearted bookish enthusiasm, I may not pretend, for, as R. L. Stevenson says, in An Apology for Idl...楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る

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