I have not forgotten my own school-boy feelings on this subject.

My pleasure at obtaining a prize was greatly enhanced by the knowledge that my little library would receive a very agreeable addition.

I never was better pleased than when at fourteen I was master of Boswell's Life of Johnson, which I had long been wishing to read.

If my master had given me, instead of Boswell, a Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, or a Geographical Class book, I should have been much less gratified by my success." The idea had been started of paying authors to write books in the languages of the country.

On this Macaulay remarks "To hire four or five people to make a literature is a course which never answered and never will answer, in any part of the world.
Languages grow.