newspaper, and a few hours a month is enough for any magazine. The
greatest part of one's reading should be that of books. Who gormandizes
on current events will pay the price with a morbid mind and with false
conclusions in his reasoning.


READ BIOGRAPHY.

The life of a great man is a continual inspiration. No other exercise
so fires a soul with noble ambition as the study of a great life. Real
life is not only stranger than fiction, but it is more interesting than
fiction. No boy should be without the life of Washington, of Lincoln,
of Webster, of Franklin. Every girl should know by heart brave
Pocahontas, sympathetic Mrs. Stowe, queenly Frances Willard, and
kind-hearted Victoria. No private library is complete without
Plutarch's "Lives," the "Life of Alfred the Great," of Napoleon, Grant,
and Gladstone.


READ SCIENCE.

The fourteen-year-old child may master the practical principles of
natural philosophy, and yet how many intelligent persons remain
ignorant of the most commonplace truths in this branch of learning!
With a little attention to the natural and mechanical sciences, a new
world of beauty and truth opens up before one. He sees objects that
once were hid to him; he hears sounds that once were silent; he enjoys
odors that once retained their fragrance. His whole being becomes a
part of the living musical world about him, when he has his senses
opened to appreciate it and to become attuned to it. One should read