The fun of books. Aurora Leigh discovers books / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How Hugh Walpole discovered books / Hugh Walpole
"I would rather be a poor man" / Lord Macaulay
To any reader / Robert Louis Stevenson
"A reader cannot be more rationally entertained ..." / Addison
From The seven joys of reading / Mary Wright Plummer
"As much company as I have kept ..." / Pope
A birth of intellect / W. Cobbett
Books / Nancy Byrd Turner
Charles Kinglsey on books / Charles Kinglsey
Books a substantial world / William Wordsworth
"Only a novel" / Jane Austen
Reading as an amusement / J.F.W. Herschel
Sing a song of books / Nancy Byrd Turner
Between the lines / Montaigne
A heavenly delight / R. Southey
A company of the wisest and the wittiest / Ralph Waldo Emerson
The land of story-books / Robert Louis Stevenson
On first looking into Chapman's Homer / John Keats
From A song of books / Sir John Lubbock
The discover / Mary Carolyn Davies
At the road-house / Bliss Carman
"There is no book so bad ..." / Cervantes
"The foolishest book ..." / O.W. Holmes
A sense of humour / J.H. Burton
The art of book-keeping / Thomas Hood
The company of mutes / Laurence Sterne
From Adventures among books / Andrew Lang
"The first time I read an excellent book ..." / Goldsmith
"My latest passion ..." / Frederick the Great
Wordsworth's early reading / William Wordsworth
Cities of the mind / Lynn Harold Hough
How to read. O for a book! / old English song
Living with books / May Lamberto Becker
"it is of no importance ..." / Oliver Goldsmith
"Much depends on when and where ..." / Lamb
"Nothing, in truth ..." / Dugald Stewart
"Some read to think ..." / Colton
"The mind should be ..." / Sterne
Lines to a book borrower / F.C.
"For general improvement ..." / Samuel Johnson
"Let us read with method ..." / Gibbon
Insulting his author / Arnold Bennett
"The books which help ..." / Theodore Parker
Surcloying the stomach / J. Sylvester
"To read with attention ..." / Gibbon
"Choose an author ..." / W. Dillon, Earl of Rosecommon
A bookish ambition / H. Peacham
"Much reading ..." / R. South
Old authors to read / Francis Bacon
About the classics / Arnold Bennett
Reading according to inclination / James Boswell
Reading several books at a time / Robert Southey
Liberty and bad books / Charles Kingsley
Lines for a girl's study / Nancy Byrd Turner
Reading and illiteracy / John Ruskin
On reading great books / John Erskine
"Books are the best things ..." / Emerson
A man and his reading / Harry Emerson Fosdick
"In science ..." / Bulwer-Lytton
"As good almost ..." / Milton
Dedication / Hilaire Belloc
Long life to books / Anonymous
An American canon / Henry Seidel Canby
"Employ your time ..." / Socrates
"We ought to regard books ..." / Plutarch
"Read not to contradict ..." / Lord Bacon
"Force yourself to reflect ..." / Coleridge
"A proper and judicious system ..." / Blakey
Children's Book Week / William Frederick Bigelow
"He who reads ..." / Lord Bolingbroke
"We never read without profit ..." / Zimmermann
The story of paper and printing. The monastic scribe / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The story of paper manufacture / H.A. Maddox
Paper / Benjamin Franklin
The printer press / Willis Duff Piercy
In the library. For a library door / Theda Kenyon
Love and the library / George Gordon, Lord Byron
A bookworm's content / Thomas Sheridan
In the library / Clinton Scollard
"A library ..." / Henry Ward Beecher
At large in the library / Samuel Johnson
To my books / Wiliam Roscoe
"The true university ..." / Carlyle
The library / John Greenleaf Whittier
Learning / William Barnes
In a library / Richard Burton
In a library / Emily Dickinson
Why Andrew Carnegie founded libraries / Andrew Carnegie
"That place that does contain ..." / Beaumont and Fletcher
Flowers in a library / Carrie Ward Lyon
My books (prose) / Robert Southey
My books (verse) / Robert Southey
Bayard Taylor / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The book lover / Clinton Scollard
What books can do for us. "A taste for books ..." / Gibbon
"If the crowns ..." / Fenelon
"For the price ..." / William Lyon Phelps
Useful and mighty things / Charles Kingsley
"Books give the same ..." / Swift
Youth and books in the life we live / WIlliam L. Stidger
"Books are the food ..." / Cicero
"Nothing can supply ..." / W.E. Channing
"They who have studied ..." / Dryden
"I armed her against the censures ..." / Goldsmith
"The man who succeeds ..." / Fesse Lee Bennett
The railsplitter's reading / Carl Sandburg
Lincoln / Nancy Byrd Turner
"Education begins the gentleman ..." / Locke
"Next to acquiring good friends ..." / C.C. Colton
The solace of books / from The spectator
"Books are delightful ..." / Richard De Bury
"It is books ..." / Leigh Hunt
"Good books are ..." Horace Mann
"As friends and companions ..." / Langford
True friends that cheer / Washington Irving
The delightful society of books / Petrarch
The contentment I have in my books / Sir Walter Waller
"In books lies the soul ..." / Carlyle
"What is twice read ..." / Samuel Johnson
Envoy / Robert Louis Stevenson
"Reading is to the mind ..." / Sir R. Steele
"Of all the things ..." / Carlyle
"A man who has any relish ..." / Addison
The test of culture / Gerald Stanley Lee
"All that mankind has done ..." / Carlyle
"If we encountered a man ..." / Emerson
"We get no good ..." / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who hath a book / Wilbur Dick Nesbit
"Books are yours ..." / Wordsworth
The mood for books / George Gising
Remunertaive reading / R. Lowe, Lord Sherbrooke
"He hath never fed ..." / Shakespeare
"Books are not ..." / John Milton
From Books / Ralph Waldo Emerson
"No matter what his rank ..." / Langford
"Of all the diversions ..." / Addison
Wonder books / Carrie Ward Lyon
"Far more seemly ..." / J. Lyly
The lure of books / Lynn Harold Hough
The soul's viaticum / Bulstrode Whitlock
From Foreword / William L. Stidger
"Medicine for the soul" / library at Thebes
"Reading is to the mind ..." / Addison
"To divert ..." / Thomas Fuller
"When a book ..." / Bruyere
"A love of books ..." / Sir W. Robertson Nicoll
The poetry cure / Robert Haven Schauffler
Stories. "Peter" / Theodore Acland Harper
Mr. Dicken's little boy / Sarah Addington
Adventure's child / Katherine Dunlap Cather
Plays and a pageant. The book revue / Maude Stewart Beagle
Bringing up nine / Mary Katharine Reely
The enchanted book-shelf / Josephine Thorp
To parents and teachers. Solomon was a wise man / William Frederick Begelow
Developing a taste for good literature / May Lamberton Becker
Children's books new and old / Anne Carroll Moore
In Charles W. Eliot : the man and his beliefs / William Alan Neilson
The influence of good books / Frances Jenkins Olcott
The love of books / John Farrar
Bad reading / Walter Taylor Field
Do American children like poetry? / Anne Carroll Moore
Projects and programs. School projects for Book Week / prepared by the National Association of Book Publishers
High school Book Week projects
Grade school Book Week projects
Miscellaneous classroom projects
Children's reading / Sarah B. Askew
Children's booklists / prepared by American Library Association and Public Libraries
Suggestions for programs on books / prepared by the National Association of Book Publishers
The book and the child / prepared by the General Federation of Women's Clubs.