| Show THE FAST AND THE SLOW some borne people take an hour or more to a meal whilo others want but fifteen minutes and then have time to spare and oftener than otherwise the former coriner eat less legs than the latter ho go it is ia with many other things in lifes life the slow alow going deliberate body I retting ahert 11 in much better shape if tot in as good time ne aft tile the one who spurts and sputters sp utters from start to finish the fable of the hare and the tortoise is an apt illustration but this does not always apply to readers of books and papers papera in fact the reverse is in more nearly the rule and those who devour a page or a column at a glance frequently receive wore more benefit than the ones that ponder over the lines for hours it is remarked of the th elate late justice L Q C lamar La marthat that he was sible able to read a newspaper article or it a page of a book at what seemed to the observer to te ie but a glance manifestly this faculty or capacity gave him a great advantage over ordinary he was able abie to devour books as it if he be were a literary glutton I 1 with the difference that his powerful memory enabled him to digest at leisure what he had absorbed in baste it is in related of macaulay that he possessed poss eseed the same faculty in a perhaps higher degree he would take up a volume for an even evenings lugs intellectual enjoyment and before he retired bad the contents fully impre sed upon his hie marvelous mind dickens dlo kens was another of these remarkably rapid readers reau re auers ere george ellot eliote s adam bedell bede came to him one day before his bedtime he be had read it and had pronounced this remarkable dictum that book was written by a woman others required days of leisure to read it and the he question of authorship was the riddle of the time in literary air circles oleo the late charles sumner was another man who possessed this happy faculty to a wonderful extent it is written of him that a book no matter whether a volume of law or ut diplomatic correspondence pon dence or a work ot of fiction pawed passed under his bla eyes as aa if by a quick sue cession of glances it was the same with daniel webster who himself stated to a a friend that when in college he read don quixote Oin in a single night in the case of both these theae distinguished men what they read in this WAY reappeared to la a new dress iu ILA their speeches and in their writings it is questionable U 14 any one at home or abroad possessed the wonderful gift spoken of to a greater extent than the late apostle orson pratt his mind was richly stored with treasures of knowledge gained by his own researches and discoveries cove co fles as well as by perusing and digesting the words and expositions of others his memory was remarkable receiving and assimilating all things which its possessor desired it to 10 law science philology or the lighter aej aoi trusa things of intellectual tel life he would read a newspaper and be thoroughly conversant with its contents without that performance intruding appreciably upon his bis regular business at all he was altogether a wonderful man |
