Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1876-01-13

nation and fits man for any sphere. Let
home be filled with reading and the
members of the family will not visit
clubs and barrooms. The art of conver,
Satlon, the materials Oh which to prompt
the ability to say the right thing in the
right place, SO as to quicken into activity
the life of an individual or crowd is a
great power One would travel many
mites to hear Sidney Smith, or ColeriIge,
or McCauley. We are so constitute! in
SocletI, that the chief enjoyment is in
the social intercourse. Young men like
to band together and talk freely, l have
heard men say t at their college life was
better on account of its social than of its
literary advantages.
The best society is where the sexes
intermingle. The best society for man
is woman. While the female mind is
strengthened and delighted, the mind of
the nan is refined and purified. Converse.
ton can not be made excellent without
reading. A fine taste what one should
or should not SAYS derived from 1t.
How charmed you are to be introduced
to one who surpasses you with his or her
intelligence, and how soon you are lnorti.
fed when the lips are opened on silly
tongue. Reading makes us acquainted
with many things. The words of your
mothers tougue-enongh of them to have
vocabulary to co f:r all the wants of
lite. a word is like piece of stone
broken from block no other piece will
fit there but it-so of a word, it should
tit exactly. We have a word "migbty,"
which We use too much. "Mighty,"
mighty small mighty everything. A
lady had red string on her fnger, and
when asked what it was for, replied To
remind her of a word which The used too
much. Ifa word is used for a number
of expressions it can not be proper III all
Care in the use of words comes from
nice thinking while reading. Some men
will mend everything with few tools,
wtile others will use many tools. We
have ll4.000 words in the language
Shakespeare used only $4,000. have
seen men who never used over 800 words.
An operator used 5000 words to transmit
all his messages. Every individual should
be able to understand all the words. A
reader should keep hi, dictionary by him
and mark all words MT un ler,toJi. How
delightful to read an author who uses so
or 10 words to express all the tints OF
color instead of simply black and white
A man may never have drawn up paper
but if he has been reader lie can write
one credtably.
Suppose 1000 books are published in
year. Oue says can't master it all.
Let US think that 5000 of these will soon
disappear and if you iail even to master
the rest you can digest what you eau and
the remainder will not hurt you. SUIT
Yourself to the best books | have a
friend who said: "Mr. Sears read none
but good books, and read them we'll"
| once made it business to read Sir
James McIntosh's works every year.
A certain latin scholar read every work
Of Cicero every year, that be might be
able in latin composition, A man must
have his object in reading. j, little here
aud there veri6es the adage, che who en-
deavors to know everything will know
nothing" Select the best works and
read thoroughly. Suppose you come
across the word "Gibralter" anu don't
know what Gibralter Is, stop and find out
what it is If my author starts train of
thought in my mind | drop him and pur.
sue that train to the end, and then re>
sumo the book.
Many articles have nothing in them.
Scan them, aui when you discover this,
drop them. You need not eat an entire
leg OF mutton to find that it is bad.
But wha. you read place it in the mind
by reflection loose til )ughts fall away
as loose garments. | would mention the
following authors as proper to be read:
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Addison,
Goldsmith, Burke, Pope, ChlllrngswOrth,
johnson. Boswell, CoSper, Foster, Hall,
Byron, McCaLley, Scott, Dickenson, Ten>
nyscn, Lougteilow, &c. The speaker in
Zach of these authors referred to certain
works of theirs as being the best, and said
that among those individuals might choose
accordin, to their owa tastes,