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books as much as they need tobacco, to keep them from brooding over their hardships.

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that General Pershing, when he had been abroad but a few weeks, cabled urgently for books? More than that, this need has proved so vital that he has ordered that 50 tons of shipping space a month be set aside for books alone. Is your boy- your son, your brother, your friend-supplied with books? He will need them-badly! He will need them for the long journey overseas ; for the wearisome train journeys in France; in the hospital if he ever happens to be wounded; and, more than anywhere else, in the trenches, where boredom sickens the soul!

The American Library Association, acting on General Pershing's appeal, has issued a nation-wide call for books for soldiers and sailors. We are glad to help in this work, and the following offer should help :

If you purchase 10 of our Little Leather Library volumes-and you can surely find among them ten that you have always wanted to read, we will give you in addition a Kit Box containing five books bound in a special “ fabricated leather," which can be sent to someone in the army or navy. If you know no one to whom to send them, take them to your nearest library, which will forward them to the boys abroad.

Immediate action is advised, if you care to take advantage of this offer. We have quite a large number of Kit Boxes which will be donated in this way; but this offer is an unusual one, and we reserve the right to return the money of any person responding to this notice, should this supply of Kit Boxes be exhausted.

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A Mental Habit that Stunts the

Lives of Millions of Americans
JANY of my friends think that what books were small enough to carry in the

pocket, and I had one with me always; I know that any person with native sometimes when I went on trips for my intelligence can do the same. I relate my firm, I used to carry half a dozen with me. experience because it may be of help to Do not misunderstand me. I did not readers of The Outlook, who-in their pore through anything uninteresting to moments of introspection--may realize, as gain an empty “culture." I read because I I did, how narrowing and stunting is that was fascinated. I began to understand that insidious American disease, newspaper-itis ! the great books of the past are not called

Let me say in the beginning, that I have classics just because they appeal to a few prono prejudice against newspapers—I buy fessors and “high-brows,” but because they two each day, morning and evening. But have charmed and inspired millions of plain I have learned to discriminate between men and women like myself. I read because news and gossip.

I could not tear myself away. I began to A few days ago twenty-two families see why present-day writers themselves call were driven out of an apartment building these greater men “masters." I became by a fire which started in the basement. imbued with ideals of life that had been a

Tens of thousands of people read that closed book. Great characters in novels, item. Why? What did it benefit them to which were bywords to educated people, know about it? Could they use that great poems and essays I had heard of but knowledge in their business?

Could they never read, became familiar to me. use it in their social lives? Did it in any In an amazingly short time I was a fairly way broaden their outlook on life? No! well-read man. The range of my reading It was read because the average American astonished even myself. I had become is suffering from “ newspaper-itis.” In thoroughly familiar with some of the best the same newspaper I counted 176 separate writings of all time, and I did this by savnews items just as unimportant as the ing the minutes I used to spend in reading above! And that is the kind of stuff with

newspaper gossip. which we feed our brains every morning and evening! Is it any wonder that Europeans are THE change in my life was marked, both from amazed at the lack of culture in America ? Is it a social and practical point of view. No longer any wonder that they call us “newspaper fiends”? ?

was I embarrassed in the company of my

educated friends. I found I was as well read as TO one questions the value and service rendered they. No longer did I feel a secret embarrassment

by newspapers. But a newspaper must be read and wish myself miles off when they discussed

with an object in view. Usually all the real, subjects of which I had been ignorant. My vital news of the day can be read in a few opinions and ideas now seemed as clear-cut as theirs. minutes. This is proved by the fact that news- I could express myself. I could talk about somepaper editors summarize all the important happen- thing else than fires, murders, accidents and tittleings of the day in two or three columns of editorials ! tattle. I no longer had to preface my remarks with

For a great many years I, too, was a “newspaper “I see by the papers." My social life was revoluslave." Every morning at the breakfast table I tionized. More important, my inner life was revwaded through my newspaper. On my way to work, olutionized. I had stumbled by chance into a world izt lunch and in the evening, newspapers occupied that was dark to me before, a world now opened up practically every spare moment I had. There wasn't by the greatest minds that perhaps have ever been i fire, a divorce, or an accident I didn't know all on this earth. And I prospered in business, inabont. I could argue with any one about the day's cidentally. Whenever I meet a man he listens to me occurrences. But my conversation was inane, and I because I have something to say. soon became looked upon as a plain male gossip. In 1 philosophize often about these books and their business, too, I was a nobody among my associates, authors. I look back and realize how much of this because my power of thought was confined to the Great Show of life I would have missed had I not insignificant daily occurrences which mean nothing. become acquainted with them. They present aspects

I realized vaguely what was the matter with my- of life far beyond the humdrum existence of most self. For years I was haunted with the thought of us. They have opened my eyes-they have that I lacked education--not necessarily a college opened the eyes of millions of men like me-to the training, but the sort of knowledge that would tragedy and the glory of life, to its humor and to broaden me mentally, that would make me a bigger its pain, to its mystery--and to its meaning. I have man, that would enable me to listen understand- broken my newspaper habit by substituting someingly, talk interestingly and intelligently.

thing worth while.-M. B. S. One evening, on my way home from work, a friend who was seated beside me, reached into his pocket and brought forth a little limp leather book.

THE name of the writer of this interesting and I myself, as usual, was reading a newspaper. I had never thought of reading a book to and from work, request. The publishers of the Little Leather because the ordinary book is too large and un

Library--for that is the edition he refers to-have wieldy to carry around. I asked my friend where published these leather-bound masterpieces for men he secured his little leather book, and he told me and women like him, so that they cun read profitably the name of the publishers.

in spare time. Fifteen minutes a day, usually spent

reading newspaper gossip, will within a short time WHAT was the beginning of a change that was a give any person a liberal education in literature. In

List of Titles. 30c each, Postpaid

NOTE: The Little Leather Library is bound in genuine sheepskin. With each 10 books purchased, we will give free a Soldier's Kit Box, containing five of our books bound in fabricated leather." ['se coupon below. 1 Christmas Carol

31 Fairy Tales Dickens

Hans Andersen 2 Essays

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Henry Thoreau Eugland

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( G. Bernard Shaw Khayyam | 11 Hamlet

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Lincoln 14 Merchant of Venice

Walt Whilman Shakespeare 43 Othello Shakespeare 15 Romeo and Juliet 44 As You Like It Shakespeare

Shakespeare I 16 Julius Caesar

45 Midsummer Night's Shiukespeare

Dream Shakespeare 17 Sonnets Shukrstir

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19 Sherlock Holines Doyle 47 Uses of Great Men | 20 A Doll's House

Ralph W. Emerson Il nrik Ibsen 48 Inferno

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