Reading As A Mental Stimulus

Aii eminent Frenen critic sata in a lectr.re reeeatly in New York "nat "To distrust what we liko is the flrst reqnisite of' progreS3 in art aad in life." lic ilid oot mean th&t lxxks tiiat are disagreeable are the onlv books wbicb opeo op a ïiew field f kmnvlelge, a aew otrtlook upon literature or llfe, is nn al lii-st iikdy ba i,'ivi the pleaeure thftt éomes (rom oue wliicli slmply reilt, -is Ihe old fiiiniliar Ideas of whicii say coinpiMcciitly, "How goud and that is. I've feit it or said it nyself." A book that pats you on the head er heart all rhe time is apt to be little more than a refleetio-n of your nnrraw experleniee, .-uid you will not learn onytalng from it. ,A book that laakes one fooi ignorant is as mortifying to oue's pride s a superior