Let us bother the librarian once again . Let us ask him to reach down, dust, and hand over to us that little brown book over…
Books bring people together. It’s easy to picture a solitary reader, wrapped around an open book, the outside world…
Books talk to us. The voices we hear will vary. Hearing your own inner voice is like catching your shadow by the hand. Sometimes…
Since the rise of silent reading in the tenth century, books have promised private experiences. We may later convene with other readers who…
This volume of Cicero’s Orations, including annotations in English and the original speeches in Latin, has me thinking about…
The most prolific collector of American textbooks, John A. Nietz, asserted in 1961 that: “every one who can read has…
While a bible’s endpapers were often fertile ground for a family tree, school books of the eighteenth and early nineteenth…