What Literature Is For

ture is studied that we may become acuainted wilh the life of Iiumanity under various social conditions and at various epochs. We study Horaco or .ruveualforsociallife; Plato or Bacon for intelleetual life; Tennyson or WhitÜertor soul life. u is thls portraituw of hfo wh-ok makes the study of litoratiire so broadening In its effect, and tin best resul t of literary studiescan now be obtained by busy people with a leisure, small means and no knowliMhr,. of any ltinguago but their own. We study hlstory that w,j may trace the evolutions of the natioLs aiïd tbe race f rom vheir earlieat and rud.-st beu-intungi to their present state of