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Show READING AS A SCIENCE. The Acquisition of Knowledge Proper-erly Proper-erly Portioned Out. Edith Wharton writes: "Tho mechanical me-chanical reader, as ho always reads consciously, knows exactly how much ho reads, and will toll you so with tho prido of tho careful housckeepor who has calculated to within halt an ounco tho dally consumption of food In her household. As tho housokcepor Is apt to go to market every day at a certain hour, so tho mechanical reader has ofton a fixed tlmo for laying In his Intellectual stores; nnd not infrequently infrequent-ly ho reads for Just so many hours a v day. Tho statement In ono of Hamer- W ton's youthful diaries, 'I shall now com:'' ' monce a course of poetical reading, bo- I ginning with fifty hours of Chaucor, I and I gavo him ono and ono-hnlf hours last night it loaves mo exactly forty- H eight and one-half,' Is a good oxamplo ot this kind of rcadlnir." |