done, and

    as beautiful almost as tself; for later ers, say

    he

    elaborate beauty and finiserary

    labors of ts.  talk of forgetting them who never

    kne  the

    learning and to attend to and

    appreciate t age will be richose relics

    han classic

    but even less knoures of tions, sill

    furted, wicans sh Vedas

    and Zendavestas and Bibles, es and Shakespeares,

    and all turies to come sed

    trophe world.  By such a pile we may

    o scale  last.

    t poets  been read by

    mankind, for only great poets can read they have only been

    read as titude read tars, at most astrologically, not

    astronomically.  Most men o read to serve a paltry

    convenience, as to cipo keep

    accounts and not be ced in trade; but of reading as a noble

    intellectual exercise ttle or not this only is

    reading, in a  t which lulls us as a luxury and

    suffers ties to sleep t w we o

    stand on tip-toe to read and devote our most alert and wakeful hours

    to.

    I t ters we s

    t is in literature, and not be forever repeating our a-b-abs, and

    ting on

    t and foremost form all our lives.  Most men are satisfied

    if ted by the

    of their lives

    vegetate and dissipate ties in w is called easy

    reading.  ting

    Library entitled quot;Little Reading,quot; o a

    to name o.  those who,

    like cormorants and ostric all sorts of th