'Full sail on the sea of dreams': adventures in reading
'Trust their truth': the qualities of books
'Having so prepared himself': settling down to read
'Catalogued, and ranged upon the book-shelves': booknesting
Leaving to one side 'Frivolities like Reading': bookish behaviour
'As rare now as giant pandas': rapacious readers
'Not squandering income but sinking capital': buying books
'In constant circulation': borrowing, lending and sharing
'A distinction of species': what to read, and how
'Creating a frisson': reviewers and reviewing
'The sight of print made him feel sick': enemies of books
Involving 'most of the deadly sins': bookish vices
'Constructing gates and drawbridges': things to do with books
'A hole where a book ought to be': loss
'An innocent and becoming spectacle': the landscape of books.
