The Autolycus of the Bookstalls
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136 A BIG BOOK How shall we have literary treasures envolumed for our reading ? Shall we have the literature of an age small-typed into a single Brobding- nagian volume, or each small work issued by itself as a Lilliputian booklet ? There is much that may be said on both sides of the question, as mine host remarked in the matter disputed between Commodore Trunnion and his friend Mr Hatchway. For awhile I found myself ranged, so to speak, on the side of the " big- endians, " because during recen...t bookstall wan- derings I had lighted upon a portly volume of a most notable character. It has one thou- sand and sixteen large octavo pages, forms a more or less solid body of about one hundred and thirty-two cubic inches, and weighs four pounds. Think of it, ye purveyors of Temple, Bibelot, and other pretty minim editions of classic literature ! Statistics are as the very breath of the nostrils of the present genera- i37 AUTOLYCUS OF THE BOOKSTALLS tion — your readers of tit-bitised literature would rather have a tabulated statement of the number of letters used in a complete edition of Shakespeare's works than the finest exposition of his poetic beauties.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
136 A BIG BOOK How shall we have literary treasures envolumed for our reading ? Shall we have the literature of an age small-typed into a single Brobding- nagian volume, or each small work issued by itself as a Lilliputian booklet ? There is much that may be said on both sides of the question, as mine host remarked in the matter disputed between Commodore Trunnion and his friend Mr Hatchway. For awhile I found myself ranged, so to speak, on the side of the " big- endians, " because during recen...t bookstall wan- derings I had lighted upon a portly volume of a most notable character. It has one thou- sand and sixteen large octavo pages, forms a more or less solid body of about one hundred and thirty-two cubic inches, and weighs four pounds. Think of it, ye purveyors of Temple, Bibelot, and other pretty minim editions of classic literature ! Statistics are as the very breath of the nostrils of the present genera- i37 AUTOLYCUS OF THE BOOKSTALLS tion — your readers of tit-bitised literature would rather have a tabulated statement of the number of letters used in a complete edition of Shakespeare's works than the finest exposition of his poetic beauties.
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