The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-13

Ii,erstu. OF logic OF history poetry or az
i,,s., hat can proceed with advantage v'ibo,,, e.
n9isy with the books commonly known as ,bs "a
~ ne olu ana New Testaments' for upon them ,nd 4;
.I. ~ ai departments the learning OF the weld C
mat whether we would be amused entertaned A. . %
ana whatever may be calling or prof,sson &
Scriptures. ourselves with these
l. s. FAwcErr
Nobody has asked me what read and whv read So,
readers do me vocil e company as the
rs to what read-we, my reading is a yerialIe M,
u rev. w'tn all sorts and conditions of things readable
thrown m read everything that comes along s~rsn,
books on scientific subjects that are likey 10 .sch
,nhg-simpy because can't live without reading of,.,
hear people say, II have no time for read,g h. ,
for books 'es ' more useiui
. read every new novel get hold of-or try to
eau then' AS friend said day or two ago we read 60
many only to md out how few we like Then when oe,
sgusted so back to Dickens and have my faith
" a ue',snt piekens books have been in my life
no words OF mine can tell Who read them and not 90
OUT into the world refreshed for days work. or
mere are men-and women toowi,h souls so dead that
hey can not be stirred by the pathos of Door Toe or the
humo Of Dick Swiveer but they have nv snceres,
He IS screw loose somewhere in sucR human make
| ups Just where can't tell, but it's there
When want tonic read Shakespeare ANYTHING arv-
wheFe' open the volume recklesy and read lust where
open H. and always read something acts as tonic
10 urea brain Shakespeare be taken at any time or
IN any frame OF mind with admirable results Then like
70 take up an oldfashoned book like Boswes stories of
tonic order. w - way
When want to go to sleep take volume of Emer-
son essays no matter which and begin try once more
to md out why people over his writings Using auto.
hypnotism FIX my mind on the strings Of words words
words and in the effort find their meaning off 90 into
tne iand OF dreams waking refreshed and and more
hked IN the belief that, while there is good deal in
hypnotism there is very little in Euersons words Do
near someone thinking that there is loose in my
oran ooF Perhaps. When you dig delve into Car
Ne sentences you hnd rich reward for the digging
and delvng but to your life on one of Emerson
ana only ind piece of common quartz Why there is
plenty OF quartz lying around in etterand us be picked
up anywhere without any digging all So refuse to dig
INTO emersons mine-unless ! want to go to sleep
Ot course, read newspapers--hnc lilac laehrynae-
devour magazines but best of all the reading find in the
people mset No woman is so duh but that one
can Ind something worth reading in them Wasn't Pope
who said, The nobest study OF mankind is mana Well
that fine sentence, if it be hackneyed An
othsr one to the point quoted this page short
@hile ago We'll it is to read but better yet j.
to know what the Lord has written IN mems eyes Stories
of hope and love, and patience and crueltyevey trait
and passion that books made oare be read there
one has eyes to see read books because can't keer
from it. read people because | love the reading
MARGARET HApLEY Foster
In response your request tell you read anc
why | read it, allow say that read good man,
different things for the that find both pleasure
proht therein.
Very naturally and Of necessity read good deal Of
literature OF less theological and religious quality
for IT has to do with business, giving equipment
therefor 1t is instructive and very fascinating reading
In every OF the world few of greatest minds
have devoted their highly disciplined powers the elucida
ton of the problems Of religion. So very much of ou
choicest literature has to do with these matters
Then too, have read the great historical writer's, Grote
Gibbon Macaulay Motley Green. Mommsen and others,
afford me pleasure, TO furnish my mind and enlarge il
kingdom and TO teach me how nations have grown into
power and suffered decay how they used their power
what service they OF in the heyday of their glory.
have read and do read biography. These men have
gone their way through the world ! a pilgrim in,
am eager to see how they managed it.
In other DAYS read not little poetry triet
to make any, But now confnc my reading Of poetry al
most wholly to Milton and Shakespeare for age no
wither, custom stale their infinite variety
o s and re
view not merely to the play OF mind how othe
minds look things but also to the intellectual dex
tey which read Of certain of literary writing
thousand things the authors themselves though
of 1t sharpcns the mind AS iron sharpeneth iron"
Then, in the time, while ! in vacation,
sometimes read the better sort Of novels and stories Blu
for genuine pleasure from such source still 60 Scott
Thackeray, Hawthorne Hugo, Macdonald and others
that ilk
Four magazines I read for current matters and for tn
news of the day read the daily and weekly newspapers
religious, unregous and rreligous Thus keep posted
F., as what the world and the church doing
But chiefest of all read the Bible both for its religion
and literary instruction for it is both the record of divn
revelation and well of English undehled"
Francis Bacon said: Reading maketh full mar
conference ready man and writing an exact man Read
ing is my way OF getting full VIM. HAYNE LEAvRLL.
Loving the study of Shakespeare read history an
absorb those books by contemporary writers that will thro
light this great poets time and works Such readn
enarges the lines of thought the study of Shakespear
wdens the moral and mental horizon helps the student
separate the wheat from the ehaf, and raises the ideal
: OF lie
That Of reading does preclude the enjoyment
good novels and books and magazine articles
topics of times. In fact the reading of the best
in great makes the choice in lighter reading til
more judicious,
Dr. Weir Mitchell Gilbert Parker and of Geors
Gsinq novels are both instructive and delightful reac
ing; in some making history for becaus
of the vivid characterization of historical personages
{ the excellent description OF historic places
For my midsummer reading | choose good translation
of foreign authors short stories They prove delightfl
pasme and give me an instructive peep at the manner
4 and mannersms of the people written about. R.
E Aphorsr,s From Tolstot.