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Show READING AS A SCIENCE. H Tho Acquisition of Knowledge Proper- H erly Portioned Out. H Edith Wharton writes: "Tho mo- H chanicnl reader, as ho always rends H consciously, knows exactly how much H ho reads, and will tell, you so with the H pride of tho careful housekeeper who H has calculated to within half an ounco H tho dally consumption of food In her household. As tho housekeeper Is apt H to go to market every day at a certain H hour, so tho mochanlcal reader has H often a fixed tlmo for laying In his M Intellectual stores; and not infrequent- H ly ho reads for just so many hours a H day. Tho statement In ono of Hamer- H ton's youthful diaries, 'I shall now com- M meneo a rourse-fct'poeticnl reading, be- 5'-J-J" ' -H ginning with fifty hours of Chaucor, M and I gavo him ono and ono-half hours H last night It leaves mo exactly forty- M eight nnd one-halt,' is a good exainplo M of this kind of roadimr.' M |