The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-02-14
Books.

To no age, perhaps. other than our own,
| do the word, of the Wise Man more aptly
apply: "Of making many books there Is
| no end
Besides, this age of ours is the heir to
many books of preceding ages-books that
must aId will live AS man is on the earth.
Books are treasuries of ideas. The
great and the good OF past ages speak to
us through books. when l enter u Ii
! brary. | feel as il almost the dead were
| present, and know if put questions to
these books tney will aLswer me with all
the faithfllness aud fulness which has
been left in them by the great men who
have left the books with us"
Some people lave natural love Tor
books and reading, and that love mani
tests itself from the time OF the earliest
ability to read.
Where that propensity is discovered to
be wanting, then efort should he made to
train the mind in an interest III books and
reading.
1t is mistake to suppose that We
should read the grestest number OF books
in a general way, in order to be rated in.
telligent.
A person may be reader of many
books and yet know but little There Is
much in the meaning OF the saying: Be
Ware of the man OF few books" uave the
courage to be ignorant of many book,.
There are books to be Stunned, just as we
would shun pestilential body, and there
are other books which are books merely
in their form, and we should nave no
time to waste upon them.
4 book, the ten niency Of which Is 10 be-
little God, or TO put us out OF right rci2-
tion To the highest rule CT duty toward
God and our feilowmen, or to cast nue.
OF disbursement aud Of desOlation up
on lite. should be ignored.
'Of bad books We can never read TOO lit.
tie: of the good, never too much. The bad
are intellectual poison and undermine tne
understanding"
"A common book will often give YOU
much amusement, but it is only noble
book which will give you dear friends.
Tne books of today should not wholly d.
vert us from the books OF previous ages
Whatever favUrites we NAV hnd among
authors and books of the present, the
standards belong to the past. II Pilgrims
Progress WAS read in our youth, We
should read it now, and again next year.
and the same OF Shakespeare's works and
Scott's.
Ruskin says: mo book is worth any
thing which is not worth much, nor is 1t
servicabie until it has been re d ana re-
read and loved and loved again."
Many books require to be read more
than once in order to be seen in their
proper colors and latent glories, aud
then discovered truths will by and by
disclose themselves"
Emerson's rules for the reading OF
books were as follows l Never read
any book that is not year old" 'Ne'-
er read any but famed books" Never
read any but what you like"
Commencing in early life, encourage
each child to build up a library-even If
when the ch lid has grown to mature lie
and goes from home. that library may
consist of but ten volumes. Teach the
child the value of books and the value OF
hi. possessing books, Teach the child to
know books by making him an explorer
among their riches. and u world OF enjoy
ment and usefulness is opened to him.
"A little library, growing larger eyory
year, is an honorable mans history. 1t
is Il mans duty to have books. a library
is not luxury, but one OF the necessarIes
of life"
Suppose q choice of ten books desired
for the library the following named vol.
umes, 1t would be well to consider:
Bible, Pilgrims Progress. good Die:
ofthe English language, Smiles
Self Help, Life OF Lincoln, SnaKespeare's
WORKS, Whittier's Poems, David Copper
field, Green's Short History of the English
People, Hist tory OF the United States.
ID. Il. MOORE.