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^' "In youth, wliile Tne mind is fresti arid lin- 

 ' occupied, it Is comparatively easy to give a 

 good direction to the mental powers. Boys 

 laud girls like fads, unless thej' are put 

 'before them in repulsive ways. They ask, 

 "is It true?" "When the leading points of 

 history are presented tc them In an ani- 

 mated and pleasant stj'le, they find more 

 satisfaction in sach reading than a jaded 

 novel reader can In the freshest romance. 

 Tlie young are also usually fond of travels 

 i and adventures. With a foundation of 

 actual knowledge laid in, in youth, readers 

 discriminate for themselves, and intuitively 

 between such works of Imagination as arel 

 worth reading and such as are not. A shal- 

 low pretender to authorship is intuitively 

 idetected, and summarily tossed aside. If 

 " young people are induced— led, not forced— 

 to begin their reading aright, the chances 

 are largely in their favor that their critical 

 knowledge will make them pretty good 

 judges afterward. 



