THOUGHTS FROM NEW BOOKS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11535, 18 March 1903, Page 8

THOUGHTS FROM NEW BOOKS.

"Readin', me friend, is talked about be all readin' people as ' though it was th' on'y thing that makes a man betther thm hie neighbors. But th' truth is that readin' is th' nex' thing this side iv goin' to bed f'r restin' th' mind. With mos' people it takes th 'place iv wurruk. A man does n't think whin he's readin', or if he has to, th' book is no fun." Mr fiooley in his "Observations." "Hogan says th' diff'rence between an American joke an' an English joke is th place to laugh. In an American joke ye laugh just afther th' point if at ail, but in an English joke y. laugh ayether before til' point or afther th' decease iv th' joker." Mr Dooley in his "Observations." "A man don't have to marry, but a woman does- 01' maids an' clargymen do th' most good in th' wurruld, on' we love them f r th' good they do. But people, especially women, don't want to be loved that way. They want to be loved because people can't help lovin' t_im, no matther how bad they are. Th' _tory books that ye give ye'er daugluter Honoria all tell her 'tis just aa good not to be ___._cL She reads about how kind Dorothy was to Lulu's childher. am' she knows Dorothy was tit' better woman, but she wants to be Lulu. Her heart, an' a cold look in th' eye, is th' wurruld, _n* hex Ma tell her to hurry up.

Arly in life sbe looks fr t_' man iv her choice in th' tennis records, later ahe reads th' nevi-s ir'm th' militia encannprocnt, thin she ____« t_' socyal i_y*gietl_-r: farther on she makce heweff fiunilyar m-ith Bradsibrert's raj-ports, an' finilly ahe -watches th' place where life pr-carvers aro hang in." Mr Dooley in his "Observations." ("Home Life of Cteniusws.") ''Now, what kind iv a man ought, a woman to moxry? She oughn't to many a young man, because abe'll prow old_* quicker tlan he will; she oughtn't to marry a n old ruuu, be_uis. he'll be much older before he's younger; she ouglhnt to mam* a poor man, because he may become rich an' lose her; _re ouglin't to uvirry a rich man because if he b_con_. j _»or, _ie can't lose him; she ouglin't to many a man that knows moiv thin elie does," because he'll nivir fail to show it, an' sire oughn't to ■many » man tliat knows less, b_?ause he may nivir catch up. But above all tilings, she musn _ m.trry a, janiuw A flure-walker, lK'in;i[>s: a Junius nn .r." Air Dcwjley in his "Observations." ("Hume Life of Geniuses.") v AT_ny people would? miss their chief pi«_uiv were their neighbours and depen-daiit-s void of blaiiie." Anthony Hope in "The Intrusions of Peggy." "Nothicc is more offensive than to see other people uVspisu what rou'd give your eyes to hare." Anthony Hope in "Tbe Intrusions of Peggy." "That things we hay.. desired did not come to pa_s may be sad; that they never could have is sadder, by co much as the law we tuideretand more cruel force than the dhanee that hits us one?, we know not whence, and may never strike again." Anthony Hope in "The Intrusions of p eggy_ ' "All the gospel in tlie world can be ■boiled down into a single precept. Do right now. I ] WY e observed that tho boy who starts in the morning wit ha* deteniunation to behave hinnjelf till belinie. usually gets through the day without a thrashin™. Charles Dudley Warner in "Fashions vi Literature."