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Cicero described a room without books, as a body without a soul. But it is
by no means necessary to be a philosopher to love reading.
Reading, indeed, is by no means necessarily study. Far from it. "I put,"
says Mr. Frederic Harrison, in his excellent article on the "Choice of
Books," "I put the poetic and emotional side of literature as the most
needed for daily use."
In the prologue to the _Legende of Goode Women_, Chaucer says:
"And as for me, though that I konne but lyte,
On bokes for to rede I me delyte,
And to him give I feyth and ful credence,
And in myn herte have him in reverence,
So hertely, that ther is game noon,
That fro my bokes maketh me to goon,
But yt be seldome on the holy day,
Save, certynly, when that the monthe of May
Is comen, and that I here the foules synge,
And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge,
Farwel my boke and my devocion."
But I doubt whether, if he had enjoyed our advantages, he could have been
so certain of tearing himself away, even in the month of May.


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