Useful Books

If a Bcholar has little money for books, he should expend it mostly on works of reference, and so get a daily return for bis output. So seems to have thought a young man of whom we recently heard, who, when asked by a canvasser to purchase an encyclopedia, said ho had one. "Which one is it?" inquired the canvasser'. The young man could not remernber. Neither could he teil who published it, but it was a fine work, in many large volumes. "Do yon ever use them?" asked the agent. "Certainly - alinost every day. " "In what line?" "Oh, I press my trousers with them. ïhey are splendid for that. "-