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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: sarcasm the mental armour of these College dullards.
Happily, things are altered now, and the disgrace of such neglect no longer
hangs on the College. Let us hope, in these days of revived respect
for antiquity, no other College library is in a similar plight.
Not Englishmen alone are guilty, however, of such unloving treatment
of their bibliographical treasures. The following is translated
from an interesting work just published in Paris,[1] and shows how,
even at this very time, and in the centre of the literary activity
of France, books meet their fate.
[1] Le luxe des Livres par L. Derome. 8vo, Paris, 1879.
M. Derome loquitur:--
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