His friend Cowen has ascribed this change to settling down "in the must and rust of bibliomania"; but I fancy that that settling down was more than half the result of the failing health which warned him that he must conserve his powers.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
In Eugene Field's case it would be difficult to distinguish the line where his bibliomania, that was an inherited infatuation for collecting, ended, and the carefully cultivated affectation of the craze for literary uses began.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
"I have searched for an antidote against this subtle and terrific poison of bibliomania.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson