Pastime Papers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Pastime Papers

The thirty volumes which own Cardinal Manning as their author were accidents, rather than essentials, of his career. He was Archdeacon or Archbishop first, and Author afterwards. Other men may have professed a principle to turn an epi gram, or have lived a novelist's hour rather than their own, or have composed a verse, as Byron did, to work Off one neat rhyme. But here was a man who wrote a book because he had something to say, and because he did not think others would say it. Those thirty volumes of his were ranged in a row in the high bookcase at the very back of his chair in the inner room at Archbishop's House. The yellow calf binding in which they were dressed was, I think, the only luxury he ever permitted himself. The truth is, the pattern dated.

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