Scribner's magazine . 3^2 A THIRD SHELF OF OLD BOOKS Keats and others have said bv wayof criticism, and in the right placestheii words are jotted on the mar-gins. There is one more literary relicof Milton, an old folio of his proseworks, printed in 1697 ; nothing couldbe more quaint, more clumsy, moreinteresting I Whether his speechesand pamphlets were brought togetherpreviously, or whether this is a first edi-tion of them collectively, I cannot Ludlow Castle the scene of Miltons Connus. The titles and prefaces and heading areall evidently as Milton intended themto be, and we are invited
Scribner's magazine . 3^2 A THIRD SHELF OF OLD BOOKS Keats and others have said bv wayof criticism, and in the right placestheii words are jotted on the mar-gins. There is one more literary relicof Milton, an old folio of his proseworks, printed in 1697 ; nothing couldbe more quaint, more clumsy, moreinteresting I Whether his speechesand pamphlets were brought togetherpreviously, or whether this is a first edi-tion of them collectively, I cannot Ludlow Castle the scene of Miltons Connus. The titles and prefaces and heading areall evidently as Milton intended themto be, and we are invited into his verypresence as we turn these old feel with Wordsworth : We must be free or die, who speak tlietongue That Shakspeare spoke; the faith and mor-als liold Which Milton held There is, however, an older bookstanding beneath this shelf than anywhich has ever stood upon it : it is onethat tills me with a kind of awe as I lookat it, yet which impels me to hold itwith affection and to read its j^ages as I read no other-, ^,_ i^rophane * vol- ume. This book isa copy of Norths•• Plutarch, ? print-ed in 1603—a l)ookwhich Shakespeareknew and which hemight have strong leathercover has 1 > e e npatched, but per-haps not wholly re-made. The book-worms have foundtheir way throughit, but the pagesremain clear as theday they w ereprinted. The name of aformer owner, wholived at BramfieldHall, Suftolk, isslowly fading offthe
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