Show I BROWSING AMONG BOOKS T Do you remember the furore that the book Pushing to the Front created when it came out How its author worked for twenty-eight twenty years gather gathering gathering gath gath- er ering ing material one only onty to have a fire sweep all that effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort away and there then instead c cf ef discouragement and quitting he went solidly to w Vi v ork ork Jk and wrote re-wrote his theme How it swept the young people along in its favor as pointing out ut to them the highways for success It was a success story story story- not the Horatio Alger type with dummy heroes flopping out from every I other page with morals strewn around like hot cakes cake's cakes cakes cak- cak v es e's es in a wagon food joint but just a fine recital of a great number of successes following hard work and strict application The book took Now its it's merely merely merely mere mere- ly an antiquated example of a past age J I got the book bo k out this week and find it just justas as good as when first on the market The chapter headings are banners under unde which he marched the rising youg man in enthusiasm for his job such as 1 The man and the opportunity s' s j Dont Don't wait for your opportunity make it Boys with no chance v. v J Necessity is the priceless spur a tt t Possibilities in S Spare are Moments r What car career carer Your Yell Y cur talent is your our call Concentrated energy v i The triumphs of enthusiasm s' s The Reward of Persistence J Marden wrote a lot of inspirational essays which had a well accepted vogue and his books 1 Tran a through many editions The volume before me was copyrighted in in 1894 Then for a decade Mardeh Mard Mar- Mar d deh deri h ran well well well- Too bad he is not still in high favor i ts J J. Then in adult read reading reading- the he Little Journe Journeys s of r Albert SElbert Hubbard to the lives of great men Literature Literature Literature Litera Litera- ture of high order Will live five I used to borrow Mrs Maida Sprunt's volumes volum s and read and re-re re read re-read rd several several several sev- sev eral with avidity She had t i complete set set set- setI set I only on- on ly a f few ew l i Hubbard is good rea rea fet t tany any ny time And what a vogue that man hadl had Lecturer writer man manof manof manof of the world friend of all the really big men of his time The Message to Garcia What a reception reception reception recep recep- tion was vias given that Presidents of big ordered them in lots of hundred thousands And the Has become of message was good ome part our language e Sculptors painters musicians captains of finance finance finance fin fin- ance ance- ance Hubbard grasped them all and from his pen Jt they came forth exalted p patterns His versatility I was amazing y There are two authors of the past whose whose whose-ma- maL ma- ma L is well worth reading Marden by the young and Hubbard by adults Marden for fora a public library and Hubbard for the home |