Sketchbook, by Washington Irving

My most recent story that I read was called "The Mutability of Literature". It was about Irving going into an old castle's library, and a book started talking to him. Basically all it was about was Irving arguing with the book about how good literature will end one day. Irving argues on the point that literature will end and the book says that it won't. At the end the librarian walked in and the book stopped talking, so that was the end of it.
I thought that the story was entertaining, and that Irving was just trying to explain his opinion. I think that he was probably making fun of current literature and saying that it will never be as good as Shakespeare and authors from his time. I think that it is kind of funny because people now say that Literature in Irving's time is so much better than now.