Do you remember his "Dante in the Bowery," and "The Ancient Irish Sagas"? He caught fire at the quotation from the "Lament of Deirdre"; and concluded at once that the Celts were the only people who, before Christianity invented chivalry, understood the meaning of romantic love. It is a great temptation to write at length on the books he liked, and how he fought for them, and explained them, and lived with them. Thinking of him, the most constant of book-lovers, I can only say, "Farewell and Hail!" THE END [Transcriber's notes: People using this book as a reference should be aware that some of the spelling and quotations are not necessarily accurate. Some obvious printing errors were corrected (gu'une->qu'une p96; natio->nation p223) Consistent archaic spellings of names of people and times were retained as is. Accenting was not 'corrected'. Some potential printer's errors left as is include: Gaugain may be Gauguin p237 (Paul Gauguin from context) Who the Holliday refered to in chapter V p244 was is unknown.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Confessions of a Book-Lover, by Maurice Francis Egan