Eccentricity In Literary Taste

CarioTis whims aro occasionally saown by readers at the Public library. Theis was a woinan whoregularly every Friday carne for a volume of serruons. She did not miad wliose sennoris, nor wJaal the subject, so long as they werê religions disconrses of some sort. Monday üho wou ld come back, return the seririoiis and take out a novel to unbeiid her ïnind until the next Friday, wheii the sermons -wonld ajain bein demand. There was another woman who woulci never read anything but a religioas novel, as phe called it, not sncti a onc as "Ben-Huc" or one vvith a partícula! religious tenet to incúlcate, but a boot with a clergyman as its chief charactér. Swinbnme's "Heavenly Arcana' was read daily for years by an eccentric old gentleman. He wotjld draw the book, keep it two weeks, return it with bis place ruarked and cali early the next rnornïng to take it out again. He never took any other book frora the library, and finally died, leaving his place ïuarked as usual. Thero is oce old man who will never read a book written by a woman. He reads good books continually, but will have noth,ing to do with a volume bearing a