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Show Utl Tharoaghlj. Savage Landor said, In his savage way, that no person should ever have more than five books on hand. He said that when you had read a book thoroughly you had better give it away, and that it was idle to keep around you so many monuments of unfinished reading read-ing as most men had In the books of their libraries. This is straining a point, undoubtedly, and a few of us would say that Lander's rule was a working rule in education or life. But what Lander meant was that it was worth while for a man to be off with the old love before he was on with the new. He meant that it was worth while for people to finish, and finish thoroughly, I one line of study before they embarked 1 on another. Boston Commonwealth, j |