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THE CHERISHING OF BOOKS.

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The act of the man who tore leaves out of valuable books in the Lenox Library excited the anger of all lovers of reading. It was a piece of vandalism of a Kind that affects the most sensitive of men, those who have learned to value the silent friendship of the friend who never deceives.

November 03, 1900

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