Show READING AS A SCIENCE the acquisition of knowledge proper erly portioned out edith wharton writes the mechanical ch reader as he always reads consciously knows exactly bow 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 dally consumption of food in her household As the housekeeper Is apt to go to market every day at a certain hour so the reader has often a fixed time tor for laying la in his 1 intellectual stores and not infrequent ly he reads for just so many hours a day the statement in one of hamer tons toles youthful diaries I 1 shall now corn com mence a course courso of poetical reading beginning with fifty hours of chaucer and I 1 gave him one and one half hall hours last night it leaves me exactly forty eight and one half Is a good example of this I kind ind of reading |