by David Starr Jordan 

   American Unitarian Assn. 1906

First edition. Ex-library reserve. Green paper over boards with white fabric spine. Printed on heavy watermarked paper with redline borders to the pages. Deckle edges and gilt top fore-edge. 

From the book, "Life's Enthusiasms. It is the layman's privilege to take the text for his sermons wherever he finds it. I take mine from a French novel, a cynical story of an unpleasant person, Samuel Brohl, by Victor Cherbuliez; And this is the text and the whole sermon: "My son, we should lay up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth or else we shall reach the end of our journey with an empty heart, for we lose a great many of them by the way."