Books and How to Make the
Most of Them

BY
JAMES HOSMER PENNIMAN

C. W. BARDEEN, PUBLISHER
Syracuse, N. Y.

Copyright, 1911, by C. W. Bardeen

There is probably no subject on which there has been more advice given than on that of books and reading, but there are few upon which advice is more necessary, for even so wise a man as Goethe said, “I have been fifty years trying to learn how to read, and I have not learned yet.”

CONTENTS

[I.][The Miracle of Books][9]
[II.][How to Use Books][18]
[III.][Cultivating the Memory][26]
[IV.][What to Read and the Abuse of Books][31]
[V.][The Art of Reading][40]
[VI.][Classification of Books][54]
[VII.][Poetry][62]
[VIII.][Biography][70]
[IX.][History][77]
[X.][Fiction][85]
[XI.][Libraries and the Care of Books][91]

Books and How to Make the Most of Them

CHAPTER I.
THE MIRACLE OF BOOKS.