The Washington times., 1923-08-14


book opens up new part of the mind
While reading your astronomy read good simple
uptodate book geology recently written Your
librarian book dealer will recommend This geology
hum o millions Of s 1s
the
animal life the EARTH and how you have gradually arisen
to position and learned study the stars instead Of
studying ways to kill and eat neghbor Waaces book
After you understand something the universe in which
your earth is little traveller something about geology and
evolution read good book on psychology learn something
about yourself how becomes possible for brain to
Professor James has written admirable book psychology
Get it.
Then get history philosophy which history of
human thought and abstract speculation.
Philosophy represents the effort Of man to explain things
thus get along without any scientific explanation
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ciently, although not perfectly, accurate.
While reading all other books make it point to read
Shakespeare for least fifteen minutes every day Other
books feed different parts the mind Shakespeare feeds the
entire brain.
Read, little at time and changing from book to
another the feSwi1g books 9s -. u,a.
greatest thinkers He died in disgrace which shows
intellect sas is sometimes apart from character nara
Rochefoucaud At the time although readers find
Kee e a rs boo T snd read s m
In the course OF year. You will find in Montesquieu the
will admire solid wisdom and keen satire The brIia1t Duke
Of La will show how to language and
wit most brilliantly.
you something about education for your
chldrens sake read Herbert spencers book Education
and Rousseaus Emile Add to these if you Industrious
works education by Froebel Pesaloz Spencer
and Rousseau are enough for the average parent
To make you think enable you to Judge the events of
and think integenty about the future the light of the
past, read these admirable books:
Buckles History Of Civilization in England" Leckys
History of European Morals" and Guizots History of
Civilization You will find it difficult to buy the last
Init Uefif ar nuh1
Such books these should be read with encyclopedia
At hand and frequently Never read and pass on
the important characters mentioned To read books without
knowing what read is like swallowing food whole does
no good and causes indigestion.
you especially to learn how to WRITE try this short
fables of Fontane-fOr clear expression of simple
thought.
sterne's Sentimental Journey" the best English prose-
Homers Odyssey It will cure of any fancy admira
Read Dantes Inferno his Paradise for magnificent
writing which is very different from fancy writing More
power kind than in any of the other
witer-except Shakespeare possesses of every
thing than all the others put together.
There is the marvel Of wit and satire
Read Gulvers Travels not peptonized edition
written for children, but swt original Goethe
Faust the first part at least Read also Hene's REESE
bde although translation carries all of Heines genius
To know something about yourself and your kind
the lives of few dozen twenty of the worlds i'm
portant for instance Socrates Alexander Great
Aristotle Caesar Napoleon Votare Michelangeo Leon
ardo Da Vnc Read the lives of all mentioned
above Look them in firstclas encyclopedia if you
have time more.
Above all read Shakespeare regularly you forty
years there forty shakespeares waiting you The
you know the more you find in him His Falstaff is for
age that appreciates wit His King Lear written his
late years of bitterness is for the old and
the serious Hamlet the puzzle and the
His the world possesses
his comedies and tragedies are the best ' -
There is in Shakespeare mental food lifetime Do not
neglect him. whatever else you may neglect The best brief
story of this who has taught the world and about
whom the world knows little written by Danish
In books worth reading which can exhaust in one