Excerpt from What to Read, and How to Read: Being Classified Lists of Choice Reading, With Appropriate Hints and Remarks, Adapted to the General Reader, to Subscribers, to Libraries, and to Persons Intending to Form Collections of Books

Observation. To counteract the in¿uence of vile or worth less books, something better must be offered, something which will please as well as instruct, which will refine the taste and evoke the nobler emotions. In the present vol ume something has been done, it is hoped, toward attaining this end.

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