knowledge, is the Books themselves! It depends on what we read, after all manner of Professors have done their best for us. The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.--T. CARLYLE. _Heroes and Hero-Worship._ OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE: TWO EPIGRAMS The King observing with judicious eyes The state of both his Universities, To one he sent a regiment: for why? That learned body wanted loyalty. To the other he sent books, as well discerning How much that loyal body wanted learning. J. TRAPP. THE ANSWER The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument. SIR W. BROWNE. Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.--F. BACON, LORD VERULAM. _Of Counsell._ AGAINST WRITERS THAT CARP AT OTHER MEN'S BOOKS The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. SIR J. HARINGTON. A CRITIC is one that has spelt over a great many of books, and his observation is the orthography. He is the surgeon of old authors, and heals the wounds of dust and ignorance. He converses much in fragments and _Desunt multa_'s, and if he piece it up with two lines, he is more proud of that book than the author. He runs over all sciences to peruse their syntaxes, and thinks all learning comprised in writing Latin. He tastes styles, as some discreeter palaters do wine; and tells you which is genuine, which sophisticate and bastard. His own phrase is a miscellany of old words, deceased long before the Caesars, and entombed by Varro, and the modernest man he follows is Plautus. He writes _Omneis_ at length, and _quicquid_, and his gerund is most inconformable. He is a troublesome vexer of the dead, which after so long sparing must rise up to the judgement of his castigations. He is one that makes all books sell dearer, whilst he swells them into folios with his comments.--J. EARLE. _Microcosmographie_. STYLE _v._ SENSE Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still,--the style is excellent: The sense, they humbly take upon content. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. A. POPE. _Essay on Criticism_. WHERE FOOLS RUSH IN