Inter-Mountain Republican | 1906-06-03 | Page 15 | Real Value of Reading.

HEAl IU-AL VALUE JUB OF OP nE HEADING v IIo Ho AH All 1 l Literature Is Contained in hi aFew n a nIc Few Ic G Great real I Bo Books J s. s Young Youns people must every now anthen ant an and then hear heat 11 it J said or Ole see It i written that all al the tho real value alue In Jn literature can cai be put upon a small smal shelf shelt That is to tt say the really raly Important part of al all al that is written is ff contained in a afew are few re good books all al the rest being being either unimportant or different ways way wayt of ot saying the same things that have been wild before The Tho statement of or course Is not I if It I be taken laken liter liter- Iter- Iter hundreds hundreds hun hun- al ally There h re are arc certainly many perhaps thousands thousands of oC books that ori original thoughts or experiences experiences that thai are truly valuable but generally speaking the thc best hest part of ot otal all al that lint has ben been written is to be he found Cound In a few volumes To un understand under under- er- er stand how this hits is possible we must remember that nearly all al rules arc are the same as other oilier and simpler rules rules In arithmetic for example the whole hole science consists of oC only emily four tour simple ways was of oC treating numbers We c can en add subtract multiply and divide and that is all ni nie we e can do to numbers Th The rest of the book is only the theor working work work- or orInG lug ing InG out of or the these c four tour rules rules Titus Thus all al of the arithmetic could coul casi easily ho put pul inlo into a little page o that one could carry carlY In lit the vest cst pocket All Al behavior all ni right living is also set jet forth In iii a few o simple laws These Illustrations will wi show what is meant b by saying that all Is al contained con- con tamed in iii a few great creat books bools The Bible and anti the works o of a 0 few famous po poets t and essayists contain r. r all human wl wisdom dom and amid these are within the reach of every overy purse