“My advice to any one who may be temped by some volume with an inscription of the author on its fly-leaf or title-page is, ‘Yield with coy submission’ – and at once. While such books make frightful inroads on one’s bank account, I have regretted only my economies, never my extravagances.”

“My advice to any one who may be temped by some volume with an inscription of the author on its fly-leaf or title-page is, ‘Yield with coy submission’ – and at once. While such books make frightful inroads on one’s bank account, I have regretted only my economies, never my extravagances.”

— A. Edward Newton