It seems to me that if I can get them to understand what is meant by love of literature, pure and simple, without a thought of political or social purpose--especially without a thought of cash profit, which is so disastrously blended with what little knowledge they acquire--I shall be on the way to founding my club of social reformers.

I shall be most careful not to alarm them with hints that I mean more than I say.

Here arc certain interesting English books; let us see what they are about, who wrote them, and why they are deemed excellent.

That is our position.

These men must get on a friendly footing with me.