Now, my dining-room is lit by one shaded electrolier over the table, so that the walls of the room are in deep shadow.

This has annoyed me many times when I have been book-hunting.

I really must have some top lights put in.

To stand on a chair and burn wax matches in order to find a particular book is ignominious and uncomfortable.

The successive illumination of four wax matches did not shed itself upon _L'Histoire Comique de Francion_.
If there is one thing that frets me more than another, it is not to be able to lay my hand upon a book.