Show Writer Sees No Punch in Rereading of Book We Ve see frequently the statement by some one that he has bas read a certain book usually fiction two or three times It seems to us that anyone who can do that and find anything new must have been a negligent reader the tho first time We Ve dont don't care for the bony wreck of the turkey for days after Thanksgiving to b over in search of a few shreds we may have hae missed and ond what wo we haven't missed in a story is like hearing an anecdote a second second sec see ond time Where's Wheres the punch 1 Music our hearts may call for over and over oer again but literature doesn't seem to be that way unless It Is a gem of word coloring like RuskIn's or Carlyles Carlyle's or lincks linck's or a poem which is another another an an- other form of or music or ought to be 1 If It is a good poem But why should one want to read David Copperfield five or six or a dozen times is to us incomprehensible sible sibie or Tess of the or jane Jane Eyre We grasped their pictures their emotions their lessons lessons lessons les les- les- les sons the first time True If It after many years wo we have well well nigh forgotten a book wo we may refresh our memory by rereading rereading reread reread- ing but while our memory would be refreshed we wo fear wo we wouldn't beThe beThe beThe be The mill mm will never neer grind with the water that Is past F. F. F H. H Collier In the St. St Louis Globe |