Books.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43376, 22 September 1908, Page 2

Books.

However limited we may be by circumstances ; however poor, or sick, 01 isolated ; however we may be oppressed by rtrudgoiy, wo may live nobly in the company of master minds. Books will break for us the common round of life. Through their ministrations, its dingy uniformity of colour may be altered by an influx of grander forces. Literature is one ot the most powciiul instruments for giving us men and women armed with reason, braced In knowledge, clothed with steadfastness and courage, and inspired by that public spirit and public fortitude of which it lias been well said that they are the brightest ornaments of the minds of men. A love of books will save us from fear, from fretfulness, from fever, from envy, from the baser and maligner passions. Aor will the solace fail us when the rest fail Onlthe contrary, it becomes greater and surer as the toilsome years draw home. Soothed and fortified by beholding the bright countenance ot truth in the <]ui<*t mul still delightful studies, at the end we may look up in peace, content with the woik of the day.—W. RoiiEutsox Nicole