| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: on the frost-bound hillocks. Glennard noticed that the
neighboring graves had been thus newly dressed; and he fancied a
blind stir of expectancy through the sod, as though the bare
mounds spread a parched surface to that commemorative rain. He
rose presently and walked back to the entrance of the cemetery.
Several greenhouses stood near the gates, and turning in at the
first he asked for some flowers.
"Anything in the emblematic line?" asked the anaemic man behind
the dripping counter.
Glennard shook his head.
"Just cut flowers? This way, then." The florist unlocked a glass
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: being proud of his valuable MSS. and very willing to show them.
It will interest many readers to know that there is now a complete
printing office, lithographic as well as typographic, at full work
in one large room of the Monastery, where their wonderful MS.
of Dante has been already reprinted, and where other fac-simile
works are now in progress.
CHAPTER V.
IGNORANCE AND BIGOTRY.
IGNORANCE, though not in the same category as fire and water,
is a great destroyer of books. At the Reformation so strong was
the antagonism of the people generally to anything like the old
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: them to convert the siege into a blockade; and there would, at
any rate, have been a risk of relief from some of the marauder's
comrades. Hobbie grinded and gnashed his teeth, as, walking
round the fastness, he could devise no means of making a forcible
entry. At length he suddenly exclaimed, "And what for no do as
our fathers did lang syne?--Put hand to the wark, lads. Let us
cut up bushes and briers, pile them before the door and set fire
to them, and smoke that auld devil's dam as if she were to be
reested for bacon."
All immediately closed with this proposal, and some went to work
with swords and knives to cut down the alder and hawthorn bushes
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