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Letter III. I'll print it, And shame the fools.— POPE — Prologue to Satires. L. 61.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. C.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 35.

The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blurr with the manuscript,— WALT WHITMAN — Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman. Pt. XV. St.-77.

Publishing. But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.— BACON — An Advertisement Touching a

Holy War. Epistle Dedicatory. Yon second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures which he dispenses.— LEIGH HUNT — On the Beneficence of

Book-stalls. If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.— BULWER-LYTTON — My Novel. Bk. VI. Ch. XIV.

If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandize, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.— VOLTAIRE — A Philosophical Dictionary. Books. Sec. 1.

Sculpture. The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows.— MICHAEL ANGELO — Sonnet. Mrs.

Henry Roscoe's trans. A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.— BRYANT — The Flood of Years.