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Show .HEADING REALLY A FINE ART Aim Should Be to Extract Best From 1 Book Without Having to ' Rsad It "Through." 1 The duty of taking the reading of 1 the run of booka, old and new, more 1 seriously, and going through the 1 whole with grim determination, rents ' heavily on tho consciences of mnny., ' We do not here refer, says the New ' fork Times, to reviewers, or the old 1 Jokes about their preserving critical Impartiality by not. reading the works -of which they write nntlr. The question Is, rather, of those who read ' for pleayire, or to amuns Information, ( or to keVp their Intellectual Interesta allvo. Muat It be woe to them If they J -do not rend each volume to the bitter end? The best answer la to be had I from the great readers. Macnulay -could dlspoae of holt a doiien books t In hla cab on the way to the house of I common. Naturally, he did not read a them "through." Hut If there was any- t thing In any of them that he wanted, hla unerring eve hit upon tho paasage. That waa enouKh for him. He had c equeexed out the Juice, and what did tie care about th pulp? Dr. Johnson a -had almllar habit. Adam Smith said of him: "Johnson knew more books t than any man;" yet, Immediately aft- a sr recording this tribute, , I Ion well wrote of hla hero: "lie had a peculiar facility. In adzing at once what was valuable In any Look, without submitting submit-ting It to the labor or perusing It from beginning to tnd." |