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Show READINQ AS A SCIENCE. Th Acquisition of Knowledge Proper. erly Portioned Out. Kdlth Whnrton writes: "Th mechanical me-chanical render, as he nlwoy read consciously, knows exactly how much he reads, and will tell yon so with th prld of the can ful hnusekenper who has calcululed to within half an ounc th dally consumption of food In ber household. As the housekeeper I apt to go to market every day at a cortain hour, so tho mechanical reader ba often a fixed tlmo for laying In bla Intellectual stores; and not infrenuont-ly infrenuont-ly he renila for Jm-t ao many hours a day. The stalmnent in ono of llnmer-ton' llnmer-ton' youthful diaries, 'I shall now commence com-mence a course of poetical reading, beginning be-ginning with fifty hour of Chaucor. ana I gav him ono nnd one half hour last night It leave me exactly forty-eight forty-eight and ono bait.' la a good example ot thla kind of reading." |