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glow in the bright tints of reality; he groups 

 characters and they make vivid history for any 

 age. Hence the art of right reading, of inter- 

 preting the deeper and wider thoughts sympa- 

 thetically, is as difficult to learn as the art of 

 right living. It is impossible to give any method 

 to one's reading until we get nerve enough to 

 reject. So many books were never made for 

 us and so many that will inspire us in every 

 way. The habit of reading idly, debilitates and 

 corrupts the mind for wholesome reading. 



Our reading should be twofold — for profit 

 and for entertainment. Both alike are helpful 

 and valuable. Reading for entertainment is as 

 legitimate as reading for profit. We need to 

 rid ourselves of the idea that we are wasting 

 time and energy when we are not doing some- 

 thing toward self-improvement. The average 

 American needs to cultivate a healthy faith in 

 the duty of entertaining and refreshing himself^ 

 The struggle with us has been one of conquest, 

 the mastery of the new-world soil, the creation 

 of government, broadening and deepening of 

 the civic principles and the beginnings of for- 

 tunes, so that we have had little or no time for 

 rest and recreation. 



The old New England traditions have made 

 work a virtue and idleness a sin. The great 



