The daily selections can in most cases be read in from fifteen minutes to half an hour, and Dr. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, has said that fifteen minutes a day devoted to good literature will give every man the essentials of a liberal education. If time can be found between breakfast and the work-hours for these few minutes of reading, one will receive more benefit than if it is done during the somnolent period which follows the day’s work and dinner. It is a mistake, however, to read before breakfast. Eyes and stomach are too closely related to permit of this.
Happy is he who can read these books in company with a sympathetic companion. His enjoyment of the treasure they contain will be doubled.
One final hint—when reading for something besides pastime, get in the habit of referring when necessary to dictionary, encyclopædia, and atlas. If on the subway or a railway train, jot down a memorandum of the query on the flyleaf, and look up the answer at the first opportunity.
ASA DON DICKINSON.
There is no business, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has the inclination, to give a little time, every day, to study.
—DANIEL WYTTENBACH.
JANUARY 1ST TO 7TH
1st. I. Franklin’s Rules of Conduct, 6-Pt. II: 86-101
II. Longfellow’s Psalm of Life, 14:247-248
III. Bryant’s Thanatopsis, 15:18-20
IV. Lowell’s To the Future, 13:164-167
2nd. I. Arnold’s Self Dependence, 14:273-274
II. Adams’s Cold Wave of 32 B. C., 9-Pt. I:146
III. Thomas’s Frost To-night, 12:343
3rd. TOMASSO SALVINI, b. 1 Ja. 1829; d. 1 Ja. 1916
I. Tomasso Salvini, 17-II:80-108