Light[A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors] . ked a passer-byof a poor fellow who had lost both legs—either at Gettysburg or in a saw mill—and wasbeing trundled along the street by a compan-ion, together with a dyspeptic monkey and anasthmatic organette. Well, said the legless musician, as hepaused in the middle of a popular melody, Icant kick. Solons and the usual order of events, at the openingof the Legislature an order was made direct-ing the securing of two copies each of Bostoo,Worcester and Springfield dailies and of oneeach of all other Massachusetts dailies forthe
Light[A journal of social Worcester and her neighbors] . ked a passer-byof a poor fellow who had lost both legs—either at Gettysburg or in a saw mill—and wasbeing trundled along the street by a compan-ion, together with a dyspeptic monkey and anasthmatic organette. Well, said the legless musician, as hepaused in the middle of a popular melody, Icant kick. Solons and the usual order of events, at the openingof the Legislature an order was made direct-ing the securing of two copies each of Bostoo,Worcester and Springfield dailies and of oneeach of all other Massachusetts dailies forthe reading room, but several members under-stood the order to apply to each one, and theywere in high dudgeon over what they consid-ered the unwarrantable extravagance of thebody, morco-er they wondered where theywere going to store their many papers. Theywere almost vexed when they found that theywere off and that they would have to go to thereading room for a sight at the literature. Itbeats all how much some people have tolearn. 166 LKiMt (w/^a/uf. Read not to contradict and confute, nor tobelieve and take for granted, nor to find talkand discourse, but to weigh and consider.—Bacon, Essay on Studies. Dibdin and others have written of bookmadness, but if ever there was a momentwhen Americans were in danger of going be-side themselves on the subject of books, it istoday. The Encyclopaedia Brittanica is thebook over which they are going daft. It ispublished for all sorts of prices, but when thepurchaser buys it, the chances are that he hasa book that reads away over his head. For thegeneral public there is not a Cyclopaedia lessadapted to the needs of the average Americanthan this. The International, Peoples, John-sons, Appletons or Chambers are all bettercalculated to answer his questions. Whatdoes he care for long treatises on abstracttopics. He wants a question answered in thevery shortest way possible ; but this big bookgives him enough to make even DominieSampson cry o
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