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The good book of the hour is simply the useful or pleasant or pleasant talk of some person with whom you cannot otherwise sconverse, printed for you. Very useful often, telling you that you need to know, very pleasant often, as a sensible friend's present talk would be. These bright accounts of travels; good humour and witty discussions of question; lively pathetic OPen real storytelling i in the from of novel; irm fact-telling the agents concerned in the events of among us as characteristic and possession mes more general, are a peculiar age; we ought to the Purely ashamed be entirely thankful for them, and selves if we make no good use of them. But, we make the Serves worst possible use, if we allow them to usurp the place of true books, for, strictly speaking, they are note books at all, but of our- merely letters or newspapers in good print. Your friends letter may be delightful, or necessary, to-day: whether worth keeping or not, is to be considered. The newspaper may be entirely proper at breakfast time, but assuredly it is not reading for all day. So, thought bound up in a volume, the long letter which gives you so pleasant an account of the inns, and reals and weather last year at such a place, or which tells you that amusing story, however valuable for occasional reference, may not be, in the real sense of the word, a "book" at all, nor to the ad
SSC FÖRUM A book is essentially not a talked thing, but a written thing; and written, not with a view of mere communication, but of permanence. The book of talk is printed only because its author cannot speak to thousands of people to once; if he could, he would. You cannot talk to your friend in Europe if you could you would; you write instead: that is more con veyance of voice. But a book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, but to preserve it. The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful. He would fain set it down for ever, engrave it on rock, if he could.
Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business; for expert men can execute and perhaps judge of particulars one by one, but the general counsels and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them
too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humour of a scholar. They perfect mature and are perfected by experience, for natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study; studies themselves do give forth directions to much large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use FORUM SSC them, for they teach not their own use.S
Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books, élse distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Reading. maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man write little, he neod have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to scem to know that he doth Dot.