The good book of the hour is simply the useful and pleasant talk of some person whom you cannot otherwise converse with, printed for you. Very useful often, as a , very pleasant often, as a sensible friend’s present talk would be.
These bright account of travel, good humored and witty discussions of question, lively or pathetic storytelling in the form of novel , firm fact telling of real agents concerned in the events of passing history—— all these books of the hour, multiplied among us as education becomes more general, are a peculiar characteristic and possession of present age. We ought to be entirely thankful for them, and entirely ashamed of ourselves if we make no good use of them.
But we make the worst possible use of them if we allow them to usurp the place of true books. For strictly speaking, they are not books at all but merely letters and newspapers in good print
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