New Books
- Jacques Bongars - Gesta Dei per Francos
- Thomas Coryat - Coryat's Crudities hastily gobbled up in Five Months Travels in France, Italy, &c
- John Donne - An Anatomy of the World
- King James Version of the Bible
- Samuel Rowlands - The Knave of Clubs
- John Speed:
- The History of Great Britain
- The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britain (map atlas)
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“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon’s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)