The following caught his eye:


RX

If your mind needs phosphorus, try "Trivia," by Logan Pearsall Smith.

If your mind needs a whiff of strong air, blue and cleansing,
from hilltops and primrose valleys, try "The Story of My Heart,"
by Richard Jefferies.

If your mind needs a tonic of iron and wine, and a thorough
rough-and-tumbling, try Samuel Butler's "Notebooks" or "The
Man Who Was Thursday," by Chesterton.

If you need "all manner of Irish," and a relapse into
irresponsible freakishness, try "The Demi-Gods," by James Stephens.
It is a better book than one deserves or expects.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then,
like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

One who loves the English tongue can have a lot of fun
with a Latin dictionary.

ROGER MIFFLIN.


Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless
they know something about it already. The young man had heard of none