"Well, I'll read over some of the titles of her books to you, and
perhaps you can tell me the one you want when you hear it read."
Patiently she began, "_Little Women, Little Men, Under the Lilacs,
Rose in Bloom_--"
"That's it, that's it!" cried Isaac--"_Rosenbloom_."
A MAID (handing up two books to a library assistant)--"Will you
change these two books, please, for Mrs. Crawley-Smith?"
ASSISTANT--"Are there any others you wish for?"
MAID--"No. Mrs. Crawley-Smith doesn't mind what they are so long as
they have big print and a happy ending."
_Hard to Find_
LIBRARIAN--"What kind of book do you want--fictional, historical,
philosophical--?"
PATRON--"Oh, any kind that H.G. Wells hasn't written."
LIBRARIAN--"We have none!"
BOOKSELLERS AND BOOKSELLING
William Dean Howells, at a dinner in Boston, said of modern American
letters:
"The average popular novel shows on the novelist's part an ignorance
of his trade which reminds me of a New England clerk.
"In a New England village I entered the main street department-store
one afternoon and said to the clerk at the book-counter:
"'Let me have, please, the letters of Charles Lamb.'
"'Post-office right across the street, Mr.
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