. St. Nicholas [serial]. Some books are to be tasted, others to beswallowed, and some few to be chewed anddigested.—Eacon, Of Studies. There is one question that comes up againand again in connection with books and read-ing, and that is the question of depending uponpublic libraries as against having a library ofones own. Most children, like most grownpeople, do both and should do both, but fewperhaps have thought much about just wherethe line between them ought to be , of course, most of the public li-braries have rooms especially for children, andthere one can have access to a
. St. Nicholas [serial]. Some books are to be tasted, others to beswallowed, and some few to be chewed anddigested.—Eacon, Of Studies. There is one question that comes up againand again in connection with books and read-ing, and that is the question of depending uponpublic libraries as against having a library ofones own. Most children, like most grownpeople, do both and should do both, but fewperhaps have thought much about just wherethe line between them ought to be , of course, most of the public li-braries have rooms especially for children, andthere one can have access to a range of read-ing such as one could not possibly have athome. But on the other hand it would, I think,be a great pity were children to get the ideathat having access to books is the same thingas owning them. With regard to the greatmass of books, naturally, it is the same thing;there are hundreds of books we read that wedont want to read again, books which may dous a good service at the moment, widen ourknowledge or st
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