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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 24

Different Kinds of Reading

Different Kinds of Reading.

But there is reading and reading. All reading is not profitable. Of making of books we know there is no end; but of books worthy to page 14 be read for instruction or rational amusement, or real pleasure to a cultivated taste and understanding, the proportion is by no means large; and, unquestionably, it is a great boon to the reading public to have their attention directed by impartial critics to the works most worthy of perusal in various departments of literature. We have abundant helps in this respect as to the literature of the past, in a variety of excellent collections and essays on general literature, and as to the literature of the day, in the periodical notices with which the higher class of journals and magazines from time to time furnish us : and in the intercommunication of such societies as yours and of their members, you may also have the means of directing each other's attention to works of special inportance and interest.