Show READING AS A A. A SCIENCE The Acquisition of Knowledge Proper Proper- erly Portioned Out Edith W Wharton arton writes The me pie- mechanical reader as as' as he he always alway reads read's consciously knows exactly how much he reads and will tell you so with the pride of the careful housekeeper who has calculated to within half an ounce the daily consumption of food In her household As the housekeeper is apt to go o to market every day at a certain hour so the mechanical reader has often a fixed time for laying in his intellectual stores and not infrequently infrequent infrequent- ly he reads for just so many hours a day The statement In one of Hamerton's Hamerton's Hamerton's Hamer- Hamer tons ton's youthful diaries I shall now commence commence commence com com- mence a course of poetical reading beginnIng beginning beginning be be- ginning with fifty hours of Chaucer and I gave him one one and one one hall half hours last night it leaves me exactly forty- forty eight and one one halt half is a good example of this kind of reading |