To readers who have ever juggled more than one book at a time, we present the Bibliofool, whom we found in Bibliophile magazine, 1908:

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Saturday Evening Post.

Dedicated to the Master of Masks, Jeff McBride.

An illustration from a 1908 issue of Metropolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Silence, emptiness, and beside the bed, burning steadily, the lighted candle."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, for Navid Sinaki:

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "The vicar prodded most of the them with his stick."

An illustration from a 1912 issue of Metropolitan magazine.

"The sooner you catch yourself in the act of building your mental snowball, the easier it is to stop."
—Richard Carlson, The Big Book of Small Stuff

An illustration from a 1912 issue of Life magazine.  The caption reads: "Sports of All Nations:  'Cut your Neighbor' or 'Freeze the Blighter,' the popular pastime of England.  The players endeavor to outstare each other.  It is played in twosomes, foursomes and then some.  The player dropping his H is disqualified."

An illustration from a 1908 issue of Life magazine.

"The Unmasking":  an illustration from a 1912 issue of Life magazine.

An illustration from a 1904 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Her outstretched arms seemed to close upon something."

"She felt just like sitting on the rocks all day": from Miss Roberts' Fortune by Sophy Winthrop (1875).

An illustration from a 1904 issue of The Windsor magazine.  The caption reads: "Always that white baby hand called upwards through the earth."

Bitter feelings were in the little girl's heart (as we learn in Mrs. Molesworth's The Bolted Door, 1906).

Indeed, "Long before your children are capable of expressing their feelings in words, you see in them the exhibitions of pride, anger, revenge, selfishness, and other evil passions; and these 'roots of bitterness' are constantly 'springing up' at every subsequent period of life" (Joseph Cross, Headlands of Faith, 1856).

An illustration from a 1905 issue of The Windsor magazine.  The caption reads: "Then the terrible thing happened."

Jonathan offers a zinger: ""She looked straight at me through her mono-lorgnette!"

An illustration from a 1904 issue of The Windsor magazine.  The caption reads: "Once more he placed the men, and once more they started of their own volition."

"What he saw reflected there, Christ alone knows." From Appleton's magazine, 1905.