Holy Saturday and Sepia Saturday

Holy Saturday

Sepia Saturday

I have no photos of a library so I am posting about some of my collection.

I don't think I ever bought a book before I was married.
I loved libraries and was a regular customer in our little town and at any school that I attended.
After I was married in the 60's I remember ads for Book Clubs.
In the early 60's I joined one and that began my collection of books.
I have copies of many of the Ian Fleming James Bond books.
Some books are gone, some still come along but I read from my Kindle now.
The oldest book I have is just an essay actually.

 Poetry of the Psalms by
Henry van Dyke
Published in 1900

To Alice
With love and best wishes for
the new year.
Your Aunt M.R.L.
1905

I have no idea who this is since I found this at an 
antique shop.

Henry van Dyke was born on November 11 , 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania in the United States. He graduated from Princeton University in 1873 and from Princeton Theological Seminary, 1877 and served as a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 Dr. van Dyke was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1913. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received many other honors. Van Dyke was an "ardent foe of the annexation of the Philippines, [and] told his congregation in 1898, 'If we enter the course of foreign conquest, the day is not far distant when we must spend in annual preparation for wars more than the $180,000,000 that we now spend every year in the education of our children for peace.'"^[1]

Henry van Dyke offering prayer at the 1913 Easter Sunrise Services in Riverside, California atop Mount Rubidoux

He chaired the committee that wrote the first Presbyterian printed liturgy, The Book of Common Worship of 1906. Among his popular writings are the two Christmas stories, The Other Wise Man (1896) and The First Christmas Tree (1897). Various religious themes of his work are also expressed in his poetry, hymns and the essays collected in Little Rivers (1895) and Fisherman’s Luck (1899). He wrote the lyrics to the popular hymn, "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" (1907), sung to the tune of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". He compiled several short stories in The Blue Flower (1902), named after the key symbol of Romanticism introduced first by Novalis. He also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, The Whole Family (1908). Among his poems is "Katrina's Sundial", the inspiration for the song, "Time Is", by the group It's a Beautiful Day on their eponymous 1969 debut album. Furthermore, the lyrics of a song — entitled "Time",^[2] sung by Mark Masri — are mostly inspired by the following quote, written by Henry van Dyke: "Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love — time is eternity".^[3] A biography of Van Dyke, titled Henry Van Dyke: A Biography, was written by his son Tertius van Dyke and published in 1935.

The little booklet is an essay on how to read and understand the psalms as poetry.

 

 

 I have given away a lot of my books since I really do not re-read a book very often.

The only exception has been

The Harry Potter series.

I know who reads Harry Potter?

I love them.

I love The Hobbits.

Books I still have on my shelves.

 

I like a wide variety of books and subjects.

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