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means of educating the children. The boy 

 and girl who learns to know and love the best 

 books of Thackeray, Scott, and Dickens is pret- 

 ty sure to have an interest in good reading 

 through life. But the habit of reading for an 

 hour every evening and perhaps devoting half 

 an hour to some standard work not a novel, is 

 not to be cultivated without some effort, and 

 some sacrifice in other directions. One of the 

 most valuable gifts of a liberal education is the 

 ability to find an interest in books. Unfor- 

 tunately, but very few people know how to 

 read. The great number have never learned 

 when young ; when in middle life their time 

 has been too much taken up with money- 

 making ; when the money was made and there 

 was plenty of time, the faculty of finding 

 interest in things above every-day detail had 

 died for want of cultivation. 



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