The Reader.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 820, 19 February 1903, Page 1

The Reader.

A great educator lias said that if th e ordinary man would make it his business to understand thoroughly all that he road, even though that all were little, he would become possessed of a practically complete education for his walk in life. To read in an intelligent fashion is as rare as the avoiding of other mistakes in this world, The reader who skims merely, gets into the vicinity of a fact and goes round it—does not meet it—would not recognise it if ho mot it again. To get the worth of one’s reading is impossible if the reader blinks at allusions which mean nothing to him instead of looking up new words aud new facts. It has not always been easy to do this. With tho oldor reforcnce works the looking up of facts mount a long and ofton unfruitful soarch.

With 11 Tho Century” boforo you you find instantly in just the right place, just the word or fact you are looking for—there is never a doubt as to its presence or its whereabouts. The looking for it hardly interrupts the course of one’s reading ; the finuing of it makes clear much that is to follow.

Tho possession and the uso, intelligently of “ The Century ” in ono’s reading is as near to a liboral education as one can get nowadays without special study courses.