"Often, after a hard day's teaching, my father used to have his breakfast in bed next morning, when we children were allowed to scramble up to the counterpane and lie around him to see what new book he had bought for us, and listen to his description and explanation of it. Never can I forget the boundless joy and interest with which I heard him tell about the contents of two volumes he had just brought home, as he showed me the printed pictures in them. They were an early edition of 'Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare.' And what a vast world of new ideas and new delights that opened to me! a world in which I have ever since much dwelt, and always with supreme pleasure and admiration."