Sitting in a library one day not long since I noticed a young fellow come in to changea book. That which he had evidently set his mind upon happening to be out, hie was thrown upon the tender mercies of the catalogue. For a full quarter of an hour, I should think, I watched him study it with furrowed forehead, his former eager expression the while fading gradually into 2 dull look of despair. "Touched by. his evident embarrassment I was moved to entice him into conversation, and to offer him friendly counsel. "I find it exceedingly difficult", he said, "to fix upon a book. The fact is, 1 have very little time for feading. Lengthy books of any sort, even novels, I cannot undertake, One requires continuous leisure in order to
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