Reading is a welcome escape from the dullness of daily routine. It is an excellent recreation which rich and poor alike can afford as most books are not very costly. Moreover in the days the large number of public libraries make reading cheaper and easier than ever before. A man who has developed a test for reading asks nothing more of life if, besides the means of physical well being, he is provided with books and the leisure to read them. Mathematics, Scientific theories, doctrines of philosophy and religion are taxing to the brain, but the reading of newspaper, history biography, accounts of travel and exploration, drama, verse and women nowadays find a delight reading.
The quantity and variety of reading material available to us are really enormous. There are books of all Kinds-books discussing topical matters, books on sex and marriage, book on health and hygiene and books on personalties of the times, as well as purely literacy books including periodicals are equally amazing. Story magazine, picture magazine, picture magazines, film magazines--there is no end to them. Each of these types has its admiring readers who would rather miss a meal than their favorite weekly or monthly.
Let us analyse the cause of the pleasure that results from reading the printed matter that we buy from book-stalls or borrow from the circulating libraries. We may begin with fiction since it makes the widest appeal to readers. The story so skillfully told lays a spell upon us. We unconsciously identify ourselves with each of the characters, especially the hero and heroine; their experience seem our own. What a keen and exquisite pleasure that gives. The novels of Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Alexander Dumas, Arnold Bennett, Jane Austen and George Eliot are an unfailing source of such pleasure. But if we have no time or patience for reading long novels, we can turn to the short stories of such writers as Maupassant, Bret Harte, Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry.
Whether we are journeying by train, or we are sitting in a park, or we are at home, reading is an excellent recreation.
The quantity and variety of reading material available to us are really enormous. There are books of all Kinds-books discussing topical matters, books on sex and marriage, book on health and hygiene and books on personalties of the times, as well as purely literacy books including periodicals are equally amazing. Story magazine, picture magazine, picture magazines, film magazines--there is no end to them. Each of these types has its admiring readers who would rather miss a meal than their favorite weekly or monthly.
Let us analyse the cause of the pleasure that results from reading the printed matter that we buy from book-stalls or borrow from the circulating libraries. We may begin with fiction since it makes the widest appeal to readers. The story so skillfully told lays a spell upon us. We unconsciously identify ourselves with each of the characters, especially the hero and heroine; their experience seem our own. What a keen and exquisite pleasure that gives. The novels of Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Alexander Dumas, Arnold Bennett, Jane Austen and George Eliot are an unfailing source of such pleasure. But if we have no time or patience for reading long novels, we can turn to the short stories of such writers as Maupassant, Bret Harte, Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry.
Whether we are journeying by train, or we are sitting in a park, or we are at home, reading is an excellent recreation.
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