I will be bold enough to say that I think that one of the main uses of reading must always be to instruct. I do not limit that to the narrow meaning of the instruction necessary to pass examinations, to obtain degrees, to qualify for training or the professions of things of that kind. It is quite plain that in the professions and in business he who would wish to excel "must live laborious days" in reading and mastering the books that have been written on the several subjects by those who are skilled and knowledgeable and have set down their knowledge on the printed page. In every calling, it is safe to say that all knowledge is contained in books and it is imperative that all that knowledge should be acquired whatever the cost may be. The main purpose of reading is to instruct, but the instruction of which I speak is infinitely wider than all that I have mentioned. It would be true to say, would it not, that each one of us, whatever our place or position in the world may be, if we were left to ourselves and our own resources, would live a very narrow and cirsumscribed life; we should be confined to our own small circle, and confined, too, to our own short span of life. Now, the use of reading in this full sense of instruction is to help to bring us out of the small circle, to break down the barriers that enclose us to the open the humblest individual the life and the experience, the thoughts and adventures, the triumphs and the conquests of men and women in every age and in every time.