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he added that
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we went to his bachelor quarters uptown.
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I want you to see, he said,
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of
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or a bargain, gave me a side of his character quite different from that I should have gained by seeing him
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only. He had that genuine respect and affection for a
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which has become almost traditional in these days of cheap and flimsy publications, a taste held by scholars and collectors, and quite beyond the popular comprehension. The respect for a book is essential to the dignity and consideration of the place of literature in the world, and when books are treated with no more regard than the newspaper, it is a sign that literature is losing its power. Even the collector, who may read little and care more for the externals than for the soul of his favorites, by the honor he pays them, by the solicitude he expends upon their preservation without spot, by the lavishness of expense upon binding, contributes much to the dignity of that art which preserves for the race the continuity of its thought and development. If Henderson loved books merely as a collector whose taste for luxury and expense takes this direction, his indulgence could not but have a certain refining influence. I could not see that he cultivated any decided specialty, but he had many rare copies which had cost fabulous prices, the possession of which gives a reputation to any owner.
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My shelves of Americana, he said,
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(it was a small coffee-colored tract of six leaves, upon which the binder of the city had exercised his utmost skill)