THE OF PERUSAL BOOKS. What Should be Chosen and How They Should be Read.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 400, 7 September 1889, Page 3

THE OF PERU SAL BOOKS. What Should be Chosen and How They Should be Read.

Select books that are informing, and so far as is in your power equip yourself with wide knowledge in all branches of hi°tory, literature and affairs. Are you deficient in any of thef-e? Then seek the best authorities and bring yourself to the highest standard in that field without delay. Let your intellectual progress be marked with positive accumulations. When you read a book that is really worth the time you spend with it, do not cram your mind with others as a man in a hurry is apt to cram his gripsack, but do a little earnest and profitable thinking before you take up its successor in your reading course. The perusal of a book gives birth to ideas in no way connected with the subject which it treats. All careful readers should, however, avoid dwelling too loner upon one line of study or, thought. Light and \aried reading should be interspersed .with the solid and useful. An extreme in oither direction is to be, avoided.