Wednesday, December 26, 2018
The Atmosphere of Old Libraries
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946), Unforgotten Years (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1939), pp. 12-13:
Gawen Hamilton, Nicol Graham of Gartmore
and Two Friends Seated in a Library
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Thus in my earliest years I became familiar with the atmosphere of old libraries, and the dim light that dwells in them, and fell under the spell which they cast upon those who haunt their precincts — that quietness, that hush of the human spirit in the ghostly presence of its own immortality, stored up in rows of ancient volumes and great folios of the classics.
and Two Friends Seated in a Library
