The home library . nd. Never wet your fingers to turn over a leaf. Be warnedby the fate of the king in the Arabian tale. Never turndown a corner of a page to hold your place. Never putin a soiled playing card, or a stained envelope, or a bit ofdirty string, or a piece of damp newspaper. Always usea regular book-mark. The simplest, and one of the best,is a card as large as a small visiting card. By cutting thistwice longitudinally from one end almost to the other, youwill have a three-legged book-mark which rides a-straddleof the page—one leg on the page below and two on thepage you wish the bo
The home library . nd. Never wet your fingers to turn over a leaf. Be warnedby the fate of the king in the Arabian tale. Never turndown a corner of a page to hold your place. Never putin a soiled playing card, or a stained envelope, or a bit ofdirty string, or a piece of damp newspaper. Always usea regular book-mark. The simplest, and one of the best,is a card as large as a small visiting card. By cutting thistwice longitudinally from one end almost to the other, youwill have a three-legged book-mark which rides a-straddleof the page—one leg on the page below and two on thepage you wish the book to open at. 116 TEE HOME LIBRARY. Never allow your books to get damp^ as they may mil-dew. Never allow them to get hot, as the boards maywarp and the leather may crack. Never put them on ashelf high up near the ceiling of a room lighted by gas, asthe results of gas combustion are highly injurious. Neverput books with metal clasps or with embossed sides, oralbums ornamented with decorative nails, on the shelves. Fig. 27. by the side of other books, for the delicate bindings of theother books will suffer. Put all such hedgehogs of booksin drawers or in trays by themselves. Never leave books or pamphlets out of sight in drawersfor a long time without examination to see that the micehave not made a nest in the drawer out of the margins ofthe books. HINTS HERE AND THERE. 117 Never bind in one yolume a lot of miscellaneous pam-phlets on incongruous subjects and of odd sizes. Whenyou can afford it, bind eyery pamphlet separately. Theonly exceptions to this rule are serials, annuals, series ofreports of one society, etc., which may be bound togetherwhenever a sufficient number have appeared to make ashapely volume. Pamphlets are best kept from dust andin order in pamphlet-cases (Figs. 27 and 28), which are
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