"A book may be as great a thing as a battle," said Disraeli, and he
meant by that a decisive battle. Now there are sometimes very decisive
battles. A Turk once came up against the walls of Vienna and the walls
of Tours, in France, and, if he had got through, you and I would to-day,
so the scholars say, be "good Mussulmans," instead of Christians, living
in freedom and decency. "When a book," says Bruyere, "raises your
spirits, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for
no other rule to judge the work by; it is good, and made by a good
workman." The books you buy should have large clear type. They are to be