scott library

[terese]

hi,
I have a couple of books and wish to know are they worth keeping.

1. Essays - steele & Addison - - The lover, and other papers -The walter scott publishing co, ltd- London and felling-on-tyne-new York, east 16th street

2. Tariff without tears- Harold E Hare- A primer of taxation - 1905- C.W. Daniel -3 Amen Corner, Paternoster Row, London

3. Those were the days- George A taylor- Sydney- Tyrrell's ltd- 99 Castlereagh street- 1918 with 28 sketches and photographs

4.Gareth and lynette etc- by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L port laureate- Strahan & co, 56 Ludgate Hill, London 1872

5.the diversions of A Prime Minister- by Basil Thomson- William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London- MDCCCXCIV

6. VALLEY OF WILD HORSES BY Zane Grey- Australian edition 1948-

hope you can help me , these 6 books have been in cupboard for 10 years regards, Terese

[Jackson Richardson]

If you like Victorian blank verse on medieval, romantic subjects, keep Gareth and Lynette. If you really like that sort of stuff, get the complete Idylls of the King of which it is part.

I'm fascinated by early C18 and Augustan literature and acquired selected essays by Addison and Steele earlier this year, but I suspect their interest is now mainly historical.

I don't know any of the other works - Zane Grey wrote stories about the Wild West, I believe.

An economic textbook over 110 years old (Tariff without tears) is no longer relevant.

Keep them if you like the bindings, though.

[Dreamwoven]

I never throw out old books. I used to, but then realised that they were a record of my interest. Only you can know which ones are most important to you.