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Columns
“Of books I
sing…”
"Of books
I sing" is a column showcasing excerpts from “volumes of forgotten
lore.” Rescued from library sales, thrift store shelves and recycling
dumpsters, if it’s amusing, poignant or illustrates
the somewhat overblown and colorful prose of yesteryear, it
can find a place here. Think of it as a home for unwed paragraphs
or a museum of resuscitated sentences. |
“Of books I sing,
but not of those
Which any book collector knows,
The priceless, rare editions, not,
But volumes which the world forgot...”
- Frank Sherman in Century Magazine, 1889
Our thanks to sacklunch.net for bringing Frank Sherman’s verse to
light after 120 years. |
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