Connor Magan’s Luck and Other Stories, by M. T. W. Published 1881. A group of juvenile short stories, probably originally printed in some 19th century periodical. They generally exhibit “good moral character.” M. T. W. is unknown.

It has many charming illustrations, and at least one very odd one.

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• The Bibliomania, or the collecting an enormous heap of books without intelligent curiosity, has, since libraries have existed, infected weak minds, who imagine that they themselves acquire knowledge when they keep it on their shelves.
• Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners.
• There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.