The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1920-06-04
An Education for All.
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among you familiar with great books Circumstances have
been could indulge in the fascinating educatve and highly
profitable pursuit Of reading especially in the bypahs Of great fiction
DO realize how fortunate have been Reading representative
number the classic novels has given culture and placed
pinnacle above many Of your neghbors.
Of regret that have not been fortunate In
bges gifted learned when the talk turned literature and
noted writer's you perhaps felt Of nferory medocry You
hmented lost opportunities or the lack Of them
Unable yourself in discussion which hndi-
capped you did the best thing and listened Going resolved
remedy your defects reader Of books But when
libraries contemplated the
long list authors the evidences Of their industry the task how
ever attractive might in theory became simply appalling in practice
work. our public all the unavoidable demands
upon your time made impossible II denied the advantages of
cuang library the expense involved in the purchase Of books frequently
became a prohbtiye item
takes months years get fair say nothing Of
burowng deeply into the Of volumes and tonnes In
reading single important book will ones leisure
for weeks However attractive the study and boundess your enthusiasm
other considerations thwarted your intentions.
Scientific historical and general knowledge has been condensed into
encyopdahandy volumes for busy people Language has its die
which glance pty definitions with the origin
and various applications Of each word Why You ask has not literature
especially fiction which represents the spirit the culture and the main
springs human activities all times been condensed rendered into
convenient formf
Exactly performed scholars
and other distinguished We relay it to
through columns additional expense All the great
condensed enough the fiction has
the field The condensatons
skeleton outlines They novels reduced the limits Of
short story retaining the plots characters incidents atmosphere
spirit Of the originals Each condensation averages about
columns in length and be read in is to 20 minutes
Works having special application have been treated by people with
special knowledge experience along those lines For instance the po
cal and historical novels Of Winston Churchill which take high rank in
American literature have been condensed: "The Crisis" by William
Howard Taft xpdent Of the United States "Conison by Samue
W. Mccall and Richard Carver by David Walsh
4 Massachusetts,.
Kpng Captains Courageous Deoes "Robnon Crusoe'
other nautical tales well the works of James Fenmo
Cooper been condensed by james Connolly the well known writer
Librarian Bolton the Boston Ahenaeum and Richard
Henry Cambridge handled Thaceay; Librarian Beder
Public library condensed of the stories of Dickens
Eery Sedgwc editor OF the Atlantic Monthly George Eos "Adan
The editor proprietor Of the Boston News Bureau ogani
zation entirely news
densea The Turmoil Booth Tarngons great novel of American
business life
The list long for enumeration here II contains the ouand
Scott Buwer Dumas Hawthorne Bunyan Gaboau Game
Hugo Doyle Irving Homer Virgil Kingsley, Muoc Stove Hardy
Reade TWAIN Stevenson Mayat and many others Distinguishes
such William Fenwck Harris Of Cambridge IT, H. Hoo
md Capt Andre Morze of Harvard and distinguished authors
King Paul rockingham Caroline cnor Irving Bachelor
Bangs Townsend Brady Caroline Wells Mary
have made the CONVERSATIONS
eheyed through prize competition the best work being selected by
ynmittee Of experts
educational value 81 these condnsaons caaRo
hey win satisfy Through them You will
Id yourself literature you win have acquired
owege easily pleasantly The win prove
neither hghbrow dull but the contrary most
ting paper time TO with the beginning of
adensed classics.
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