The Reader.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 821, 20 February 1903, Page 1

The Reader.

A great educator has said that if the ordinary man would make it his business to understand thoroughly all that he read, even though that all wore 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 he met it again. To get the worth of one’s reading is impossible if tho reader blinks at allusions which mean nothing to him instoad of looking up new words and new facts. It has not always been oasy to do this. With tho older reference works tho looking up of facts meant a long and often unfruitful soareh.

With “ Tho Century ” beforo you you find instantly in just the right place, just the word or fact you are looking lor — thero is never a doubt as to its presence or its whoroabouts. The looking for it hardly interrupts tho course of one’s reading ; the finding of it makes clear much that is to follow.

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