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Excerpt from Gossip in a LibraryIn the meanwhile, my books are scattered about in cases in different parts of a double sitting-room, where the cats carouse on one Side, and the burdy gurd… Mehr…

Excerpt from Gossip in a LibraryIn the meanwhile, my books are scattered about in cases in different parts of a double sitting-room, where the cats carouse on one Side, and the burdy gurdy man girds up his loins on the other. A friend of Boethius had a library lined with slabs of ivory and pale green marble. I like to think of that when I am jealous of Mr. Frederick locker-lampson, as the peasant thinks of the White Czar when his master''s banqueting hall dazzles him. If I cannot have cabinets of ebony and cedar, I may just as well have plain deal, with common glass doors to keep the dust out. I detest your Persian apparatus.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Edmund Gosse, Books, Fiction and Literature, Essays and Letters, Gossip in a Library (Classic Reprint) Books>Fiction and Literature>Essays and Letters, FB&C Ltd<