"A PROFESSOR OF BOOKS" -EMERSON IN N glancing through one of the early volumes of Charles Dudley Warner's "Library of the World's Best Literature," we met, in the Emerson section, an extract from one of the sage's fine pages that ran in this wise: "Meantime the colleges, whilst they provide us with libraries, furnish no professor of books; and, I think, no chair is so much wanted." It is doubtful if any phrase could so happily describe at once the function and the achievement of Mr. Warner in his new and great work. He himself is essentially a "professor of books," although the charm of his pen has tended to make us forget his wide and varied learning. And knowing not only books but living writers and critics as well, Mr. Warner has gathered around him as advisers and aids other "professors of books," not men of the Dryasdust school, but those who possess the same salient charm and graphic power as himself. The result of this remarkable literary movement has been to provide the great reading public, the busy public of ever scant leisure, with just what Emerson declared more than half a century ago we so much needed, namely, a guide to the best reading. 66 Emerson indeed likens a library of miscellaneous books to a lottery wherein there are a hundred blanks to one prize, and finally exclaims that some charitable soul, after losing a great deal of time among the false books and alighting upon a few true ones, which made him happy and wise, would do a right act in naming those which have been bridges or ships to carry him safely over dark morasses and barren oceans into the heart of sacred cities, into palaces and temples." This is precisely what Mr. Warner's new Library does in the fine, critical articles which preface the master-works of the greatest writers. 66 Think what is here accomplished. In the case of Emerson himself, the general voice has proclaimed his two volumes of Essays "a requisite for every library. But if we have the wish to go farther and know more of the work of our greatest man of letters, what volume shall we select? There are ten or eleven others to choose from. Looking into Mr. Warner's Library we find that Dr. Richard Garnett, of the British Museum, a life-long student and biographer of Emerson, has written a critique that gives us exactly what we wish to know. Again, take the case of the man who occupies in German life the same place as the Sage of Concord in American life. All told, Goethe's writings comprise seventy compact volumes. Emerson himself, in one of those delightful letters he wrote to Carlyle, tells how, after years Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard with Dante. Professor Santayana with Cervantes. The historian Lecky with Gibbon. Charlton T. Lewis with Bacon, and so on. Never, it seems to us, was so much talent, such an array of eminent names, pressed into service for the production of such compact and pregnant exposition and criticism. It would be a great mistake, however, to believe that the new Library which Mr. Warner and his associates have prepared has to do with nothing but the "classics." Here, for instance, is Dumas the elder. Who is there that has not fallen a victim to the stirring romances of "The Three Musketeers" and their extensive kin? Many of us, when we have once got into their companionship, hardly know where to stop. But we do not want to be misled into reading an immense number of worthless and mediocre stories that Dumas, in the burst of his fame, was led to palm off as his own, though they were in reality the work of others. There never was a more delightful "professor of books" than Andrew Lang, RALPH WALDO EMERSON of effort, "he has succeeded in getting through thirty-five," and despairs of the other half! But who, even among those who call themselves well read, have dispatched thirty-five volumes of the great German, or even a half or a third of thirty-five? Nevertheless, we do not like to remain without at least a general and historical view of Goethe's tremendous activity, and, furthermore, if we go beyond "Faust" and "Wilhelm Meister," we are-the most of us-lost in a sea of conjecture as to which of the remaining sixty-eight volumes we shall attack. How happily has Mr. Warner here come to our relief! He has chosen to prepare the Goethe section for the Library, no less a scholar than Prof. Edward Dowden of Dublin, the President of the Goethe Society of England. The assignment was most fitting, as no Englishman since Carlyle is so well versed in all that pertains to the great German, none knows better of his strength and power, none better his shortcomings and his weaknesses. Here we have the distilled essence of his criticism, together with Professor Dowden's choice of what is of paramount and la ting value in the legacy Goethe has left to us. Professor Evans of Munich performs for us a like service with Schier. Prof. Maurice Francis Egan does the same with Calderon. Prof. and we doubt if there is any one living who could tell us so much as he has told us in the Library of what is interesting and what we wish to know of Dumas. We cross from the field of romance over into that of poetry, and the first name we chance upon is that of Wordsworth, one of the greatest poets who ever lived-no one questions that. And yet what great poet ever left so much fine wheat mixed with so much chaff? Dr. R. H. Hutton, the editor of the London Spectator, and one of the sanest and most appreciative of living critics, has chosen for this Library the best of Wordsworth's poetry, and has planned such further journeys through the poet's writings as the reader may wish to take. And so we might go on. But we think we have made clear to the reader that which struck us so forcibly when we looked into the Emerson section, namely, how finely Mr. Warner has, in his Library, succeeded in satisfying the great want which Emerson there so well voicedthat of a "professor of books." Exactly as the professor of chemistry or physics or astronomy or biology gives the student a view of the whole field of his science, the summary of its achievements, its great names and its great works, so Mr. Warner and his associates have given us the distillation not merely of the whole world's literature, in itself a colossal attempt, but, in addition, its history, biography, and criticism as well. It is only when we grasp its full import that we realize the truly vast and monumental character of the Library. It must assuredly rank as one of the most notable achievements of the century. The widespread desire among all classes to possess these thirty treasure volumes is clearly indicated by the number and the character of letters which are received daily from all parts of the world by Harper's Weekly Club, through which Mr. Warner's Library is being distributed. The first edition of an important and costly work like the Library is indisputably the most valuable, because printed from the new, fresh plates, thus bringing out both type and engravings with noticeable clearness and beauty. The superiority of first editions is best shown by the universal custom of publishers to demand more for them than for those issued later. But the publishers of Mr. Warner's Library have actually so reduced the price of their most valuable and desirable first edition that just at present it is obtainable for about half of the regular subscription price, and the additional privilege of easy monthly payments is also afforded. These material concessions are made so as to quickly place a few sets in each community for inspection. But as only a few of these introductory sets from the much-sought-after first edition now remain it becomes necessary for readers who desire a particularly choice set of the work (and at about half-price besides) to write at once for particulars to Harper's Weekly Club, 91 Fifth Avenue, New York, Nelson's New Series of Teachers' Bibles Beacon Lights of History These Teachers' Bibles contain new Bible Helps, entitled "The Illustrated UPWARD OF 350 ILLUSTRATIONS of Ancient Monuments, Scenes in Bible Lands, Animals, Plants, Antiquities, Coins, etc., are distributed through the text of the Helps. "A STOREHOUSE of great riches, indeed, is THE ILLUSTRATED BIBLE TREASURY, edited by the Rev. Dr. William Wright. 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