trash she can find, and then goes mooning around with a distorted view of life. She is usually the so-called romantic woman. Both these types of women waste time, and forfeit real enjoyment in books.
Literature is not the works of authors, but the expression of the minds of people during a certain period or phase of thought. The books written in Germany, just before the war, all expressed a certain trend of thought. The books being written in Russia to-day are coloured by the revolution.
President Emeritus Eliot, of Harvard University, said that all books necessary to a liberal education could be placed on a five-foot-shelf. He was right if the books on the five-foot shelf were properly selected, digested, and reflected upon.
Most courses' in reading give poor results because they demand strain and usually have an inadequate time limit. Many reading courses are planned by would-be intellectuals who are always interested in the "classics." A book does not become a classic because it is aged, but rather because it has permanent qualities and originality of thought. A classic may be born at any time.
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