YOUNG WOMEN AND BOOKS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 6 (Supplement)

YOUNG WOMEN AND BOOKS.

Have a 'six-foot shelf" of your own beloved volumes, those vou want to read and read again, to din into, to mark and to love.' For this shelf -make vour own selection.' - „•.- $'-■. '' Don't attempt to keeD no with all tho new books. I am writing- for those whoso spare time is limited and whose life is full of necessary business. The rear food to-produce literary taste is old -books, tested and tried by time and the judg* ment of mankind. ■ -■ / Don't confine yourself to novels and books easy to read. Tackle the tough ones, that make you think and study. Hard reading is as useful to the mind as hard food to the teeth. Literature .- saves vou from becoming commonplace. If you are a reader-* of books-you are friend of great men; vou share the best part of them—their thoughts. When you go to them, it is as if you went to a royal court room, where high thoughts reign, and where inspiring ideals cure # you of your pettiness. ~ A lover of books may never be bored. He does not cry continually for something; to do, something to amuse him. He drinks at an unfailing "fountain of human interest. There they stand, those everA ready friends, the books on vour shelf, willing- to pour out their helD to jwjii whenever you turn to them. They Bbld the gates of knowledge." You want to he a superior person, to be v above the dull unthinking crowd? - Then find in the intellectual life the true.-field of aristocracy. Dor there are, and always have been, two classes of neople in the world ; those who live tho thought of life, and those who live upon the seconded thoughts that are passed \>ri#o them.. '■■'