But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. <\/i><\/p>\n
\u2014Daniel 12:4<\/i><\/p>\n
4911<\/b> Flippant Reading Trends<\/b><\/p>\n
In a speech Charles H. Peters, president of the Canadian Press, claimed that \u201cthe average newspaper reader spent only four minutes a day on international news. \u2026 Other surveys showed that 80 percent of readers follow the comic strip and letters to the editor, but only 20 percent read editorials and serious news.\u201d<\/p>\n
4912<\/b> From Television Back To Books<\/b><\/p>\n
One of the important battles of today, Dr. Mason Gross, president of Rutgers University and chairman of the National Book Committee, told a library group, is the battle between books and television. Television presents a tremendous emotional impact, but a picture does not present a clear thought. Television depends upon an instant response, but you cannot turn your set back to go over what was said three minutes back. Television is making us descend \u201cinto something like the global village that Mr. Marshall McLuhan warns us about, where there will be no more sharpness or elegance to the life of human beings, but instead a great big blob of emotional reactions. This must never be.\u201d<\/p>\n
The only alternative, says Dr. Gross, is the printed word, the reading and thinking about what is written in books and periodicals. Books give us the tools with which to think, to resist the dehumanization of language and the remaking of words in propaganda. \u201cSo, for the sake of analysis, for the sake of reason, for the sake of study, for the sake of reflection, we\u2019ve simply got to bring our kids and ourselves away from the television sets occasionally and back to books.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Selected<\/p>\n
4913<\/b> Two Hours A Day<\/b><\/p>\n
Some forty years ago, a United States senator, who was respected and admired for his knowledge, wisdom and understanding, was asked, \u201cSenator, you never spent much time in college, if any. How have you acquired your understanding of national and international affairs? Where have you learned so much about so many things?\u201d<\/p>\n
His answer was simple and to the point. \u201cI made a rule when I was eighteen years old that I would read for two hours every day; that sometimes in every twenty-four-hour period I would thoughtfully and carefully read for at least two hours. On trains, in hotels, in waiting rooms, I have read: magazines, news digests, political reports, good books, poetry, and the Bible.\u201d And then he added, \u201cTry it, young fellow. You will be an educated man in spite of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Say<\/i><\/p>\n
4914<\/b> Bathtub Reading<\/b><\/p>\n
Marilee Christensen, a Salt Lake City elementary school teacher, has found a way to get children to read\u2014seat them in a bathtub. She picked up an old cast-iron tub in a secondhand store, painted it orange and threw in some pillows. Now it\u2019s a reading corner. She\u2019s had a hard time keeping the kids out of it. But they observe the rules: Three in a tub and keep reading. <\/p>\n
4915<\/b> The Plinys<\/b><\/p>\n
Going back, Pliny the Elder employed a person to read to him during his meals; and he never travelled without a book and a portable writing-desk by his side. He made extracts from every work he read. Pliny the Younger read upon all occasions, whether riding, walking, or sitting\u2014whenever a moment\u2019s leisure afforded him an opportunity. <\/p>\n
\u2014Zimmerman<\/p>\n
4916<\/b> A Quarter Hour Daily<\/b><\/p>\n
On 15 minutes a day, one can read twenty books a year. <\/p>\n
\u2014Peterson<\/p>\n
4917<\/b> Book\u2019s Influence On Loyola<\/b><\/p>\n
Loyola when a soldier, serving at the siege of Pampeluna and laid up by a dangerous wound in his leg, asked for a book to divert his thought. The Lives of the Saints<\/i> was brought to him, and its perusal so inflamed his mind that he determined thenceforth to devote himself to the founding of a religious order. <\/p>\n
4918<\/b> Book\u2019s Influence On Missionaries<\/b><\/p>\n
William Carey got the first idea of entering upon his sublime labours as a missionary from a perusal of the Voyages Of Captain Cook<\/i>. It was from reading Carey\u2019s letters that Henry Martyn first thought of the claims of India. Buchanan\u2019s Star in the East<\/i> first called the attention of Dr. Judson to the missionary work, and sent him an apostle to Burma. <\/p>\n
Dr. Livingstone, in a speech delivered at Dundee, when the freedom of the burgh was presented to him, stated that he had been led to devote himself to the missionary cause by reading the work of Dr. Thomas Dick, of Broughty Ferry, on The Philosophy of a Future State<\/i>. <\/p>\n
\u2014Denton<\/p>\n
4919<\/b> Wilberforce\u2019s Spiritual Enlightenment<\/b><\/p>\n
Wilberforce set off for a tour on the Continent, choosing Isaac Milner, afterwards Dean of Carlisle, as his traveling companion. Just before he started his eye glanced casually upon a little book, Doddridge\u2019s Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul<\/i>. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is that?\u201d he asked. \u201cOne of the best books ever written,\u201d was the reply of Milner. \u201cLet us take it with us and read it on the journey.\u201d The reading of that book led him to the study of the Bible, and the study of the Bible was blessed by the Divine Spirit to the enlightenment of his mind and to the renewal of his heart. <\/p>\n
\u2014Punshon<\/p>\n
4920<\/b> Influences Of Various Books<\/b><\/p>\n
Benjamin Franklin said that the reading of Cotton Mather\u2019s \u201cEssay on Doing Good\u201d molded his entire life. The assassin of Lord Russell declared that he was led into crime by reading one vicious romance. The consecrated John Angeli James, whom it was said England never produced a better man, declared in his old days that he had never yet got over the evil effects of having for fifteen minutes once read a bad book. <\/p>\n
But I need not go so far off. I could come nearer home and tell you of something that occurred in my college days. I could tell you of a comrade who was great-hearted, noble, and generous. He was studying for an honourable profession, but he had an infidel book in his trunk, and he said to me one day, \u201cDe Witt, would you like to read it?\u201d I said, \u201cYes, I would.\u201d<\/p>\n
I took the book and read it only for a few minutes. I was really startled with what I saw there, and I handed the book back to him, and said, \u201cYou had better destroy that book.\u201d No, he kept it. He read it. He reread it. After a while he gave up religion as a myth. <\/p>\n
\u2014Talmage<\/p>\n
4921<\/b> Taking It For Granted<\/b><\/p>\n
During the \u201930s my father completed The World Crisis<\/i>, wrote Marlborough<\/i> and planned A History of the English-Speaking Peoples<\/i>. On completion, a signed copy of each book was sent to his closest friends, and they, of course, would send their thanks promptly to the exuberant author. <\/p>\n
As the years went on and the number of volumes increased, it became a little difficult for everyone to vary his thanks, and on the completion of the volumes of Marlborough<\/i>, my father received a note from a friend which said: \u201cDear Winston, Thank you for your book. I have put it on the shelf with the others.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Sarah Churchill<\/p>\n
4922<\/b> Satisfied With One Book<\/b><\/p>\n
Jessica Mitford, author of Daughters and Rebels<\/i>, told me this story about her aristocratic English father:<\/p>\n
Father had an enormous library. It had come down through our family for generations. But he never read a book! I asked him about this one time, and he confessed that he had read White Fang<\/i> by Jack London. \u201cGood book,\u201d he said. \u201cEnjoyed it. Don\u2019t see any point in reading another.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Saturday Review<\/i><\/p>\n
4923<\/b> Cool That Book! <\/b><\/p>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson\u2019s advice was never to read a book till it has been out a year, supposing that length of time necessary to show whether the volume has, as the French say, \u201ca reason for being.\u201d<\/p>\n
4924<\/b> What Is Luxury? <\/b><\/p>\n
Charles James Fox, the English statesman, once was asked his definition of luxury. <\/p>\n
\u201cLying under a tree with a book,\u201d he said, \u201cis a luxury only surpassed by lying under a tree without one.\u201d<\/p>\n
4925<\/b> Trailing Criminal From Public Library<\/b><\/p>\n
A crime was found out in a strange way in Louisiana. The suspected man had run away, but a public library ticket was discovered in his room. Going to the library with it, the detectives found that the man had been reading books on South America. They telegraphed the police at New Orleans, and the man was arrested stepping on board a steamer for a South American port. <\/p>\n
\u2014Current Anecdotes <\/p>\n
4926<\/b> \u201cBad Egg\u201d Book<\/b><\/p>\n
During William White\u2019s long reign as editor of the Emporia Gazette<\/i> he quite often was swamped with stories that aspiring authors wanted printed in his paper. <\/p>\n
In answer to one of his rejections a lady once wrote:<\/p>\n
\u201cSir: You sent back last week a story of mine. I know that you did not read the story, for as a test I pasted together pages 18, 19 and 20. The story came back with these pages still pasted. So I know you are a fraud and turn down stories without reading them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. White wrote back:<\/p>\n
\u201cDear Madam: At breakfast when I open an egg I don\u2019t have to eat it all to determine if it is bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
4927<\/b> How To Play Even In Chess<\/b><\/p>\n
For several years two men had played chess regularly together. They were quite evenly matched and there was keen rivalry between them. Then, one man\u2019s game improved so much, he started beating his rival nearly every game they played. The other man, after much thought, finally came up with an idea. He went to a bookstore, picked up a 4-volume set on How to Play Chess<\/i>. He sent the books to his friend as a gift. It wasn\u2019t long before they were evenly matched again! <\/p>\n
\u2014Dan Bennett<\/p>\n
4928<\/b> Epigram On Reading<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is unread. <\/p>\n
See also:<\/b> Books ; Knowledge, Increase of. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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