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a-r-His is the den," said the owner of the
I new house. She had a right to the pride
in her voice. It was a beautiful room, paneled
in mahogany, ornamented with sailing ships,
the window offering a magnificent view of
distant hills.
And no room anywhere for a single book.
Not one.
Nor was there a bookcase in the house.
She is my friend. She is good, intelligent,
and industrious. She doesn't read. She says
she hasn't time.
Perhaps the new den is meant as the con
stant study of the landscape and it is a rich
reward. I would love such a house with,
such a room.
But my house would have bookcases filled
with volumes chosen not for the brilliance
of their bindings, as my decorator friend
recommends, but for their content.
Here in my old shelves is the great and
wonderful Bible produced with loving care
by those who bring you this Sunday mag
azine. And there are Shakespeare and Walt
Whitman and Robert Frost and Carl Sand
burg and James Hearst.
And here is the enchantment of Sherlock
Holmes and as many of the works of James
Thurber as I can accumulate and Robert
Benchley and all the anthologies and collec
tions of great short stories I am able to
acquire.
And a sampling of Russian and French and
the quaint world of Dickens and Jane Austen
and Trollope.
And great newspaper reporting and the
whimsy of Helen Hokinson, a dictionary, a
thesaurus, books of reference. And Graham
Greene and Moravia and J. P. Marquand and
Joseph Conrad, Du Maurier and Christopher
Fry and A. A. Milne and James Barrie. John
Hersey, Ernest Hemingway, and William
Faulkner.
Life can be loved and the battle won
without owning books. No rabid reader has
the right to sit in judgment on those for
whom reading is neither pleasure nor profit.
But to those who love books, the opening
of the pages is an adventure. And when, in
completion, a book loses the suspense of
itself, it remains as a friend and companion.
A room needs a window, but a room filled
with books brings all the world into view.
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