The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1892-06-06


climbing spire BIT d fine soul, are will
ling to- become mere sl5onges, satur-
ated from the stagnant goose pond
of village gossip. There is some
truth III this, but newspapers arc
not all Of that kind. The remedy is
read the best, and only that which is
Of use in them Magazines. month
lies and quarterlies are very valuable.
Sucli magazines al Scribners !, Har-
pers The Century, and one 81 two
good Reviews, such as the North
american, 81 the Contemporary, a1e
almost a liberal education There Il
very cheap and very valuable
monthly now being pub called
seThe Review Of Reviews III which
ven get the g.fst Of all others cor.
densed, resumes y an Ii a passes 81
tkx Serld ~ ee'itirs "a Sffe<S II
iE .k. IotK.z IL plI1 s u. 10
foHng man
Now what can / say about hooks.
Why Icould say enough to make one.
But ( must be brief Don't read
rubbish. Yon haven't time to waste
lin that way. Itshould not benec-
essary for me to say, do not read
bad books and immoral books, books
that debauch the imagination and
infame the passions The man 81
woman who sends out such books, is
q criminal, the publisher is no
better.
And yet our railroad bookstalls are
loaded with them. Read for a pur-
pose.
Read whatever will help you in
your business or profession. fl
were a young man going into bust.
ness, / would read the lives of great
merchants and financiers books on
business, economics and commercial
Law: on the products Of my own and
other countries, SO thatI might know
best how to apply knowledge prac7
tically. u
So if / were physician, lawyer,
clergyman, the staple of my read
ing should be along my own special
line. Read for a purpose and your
reading will be of value,
Read also to develop the various
faculties Of the mind. Seek after
general culture.
Read History. Greene's History
of the English People, Guizot.s His
tory of France and Motley's History
of.the Dutch Republic, and above
all become familiar with the history
ofsyour own country.
Read works that will healthily de-
velop the Imagination. Life needs
poetry to save it from sordidness.
Read Shakespeare and your taste
for the cheap and nasty drama will
die out. Read such poets as Words
worth, Browning, Longfellow, Whit
tier, Lowell. There are authors
you can pick up a hundred times
and always find neWEbeauties,ne in
SEPARATIONS III them. Read the best nov
elists. lido not dignity by the name Of
noYelists the men and women who
flood the market with watery tales of
sentiment stories as weak as
whipped syllabub and made with
bad eggs at that. IF you want to
read French fiction, take Balzac, in
stead ofiZola. and Victor Hugo, in
stead of Maupassant. In English
we have Scott, and Thackery, and
Dickens, and George Eliot. and
Black, and Bulwer1 and Kingsley.
In American fiction, Hawthorne, and
Mrs. Whitney and Howells. There.
is a host of men and women of
genius to read, and life is too short
for aught but the best.
And when you read, Think"
Let your own mind work with the
authors.
Reading without thinking is not
much use. 1ou may remember
LowelPss satire on man of this
kind.
Twould be useless to tell you
things that heknew
All separate facts undeniably true,
But with him or each other they'd
nothing to do. .s /.
No power of combining, arranging,
discerning
Digested the masses he learned,
into Ioo,n;not,;,