Quaint Companions

It was pleasant to learn that after two books of verse and two of fiction, sold at a newly opened bookshop in New York, The Founding of New England, by James Truslow Adams, filled out the list of the first five books purchased by casual customers. But commerce makes stranger bedfellows than that. A Boston bookstore, giving out the titles of its six best sellers for a week in April, listed Mr. Henry Dwight Sedgwick’sPro Vita Monastica next above Mr. Werner’s Barnum. The King of Showmen and the Monastic Life! Let nobody to the marriage of true minds admit impediments!