Why We Like Them

What i-; it in people tlmt makea as liko tlicin 'i Thero must be a certain aniount of common inforniation as a. basis foi y : Lul Mircly ifc nut quantity, in auy snso ; no - it is Trith a fricml :is it is with an aulhor, wc aro won by 11 certain qnnlity, and nu re qnantity aiïd mero faculty go tor UOthing, except as thcj' givo proof oi' tho quálity. Thcrc are books you can rond by the bour, witb instruction and even oiitertainmont, and vet neither for the frowRy cover nor the blurrcd pago, nor any ot' tho accidental outward belongings have you a bit of that ittnchüient whioh in tho caso of boolcs, as of people, botokcns an nffuction for the innermost part. And tb ere ara plenty ol' men and women of whora you thoroughly approve, who rcally inform and amuse you, with ■vliom iudood, if airen mstances conspire, ycu can become reasonabïy intímate, and whom yci nver tiiink of in tho way of earnest friendshi]). Bot, . haven't the poets bron siiiijin uil this since tho beginning of days!- only they have unothor Tvord