Note 6 — "AN OLD OFFENDER."

Books are an educational force. They "have often been compared to friends,"6 whom we "never cut."7 They "are better than all the tarts and toys in the world."8 It is not generally known that "English literature is the inheritance of the English race,"9 on whose Empire, by the way, "the sun never sets." We even have "books in the running brooks," as the Bard of Avon10 tells us; so that not only "he that runs," but he that swims, "may read."