READING.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 39, 13 May 1878, Page 2

READING.

Roadina is a tnsto, ft power, and n habit. Tho tnsto has to bo iraplnntod, Ijho power hna to bo imparted, find tho habit baa to bo formod. M^any do not road booauao thoy have noyor road. Xho powors nro not easy to acquire lato in life or unirlor difficulties ; still loso easy is it to hcquiro tho habit of digosting what ono has' road. But tho nation has committed itself to tho yoiy groat task of compelling everybody to road, und to follow up tho clomentnry power ot reading with, various oxoroiscs calculated to mnko that reading boar substantial fruit. A nation thnt docs this is bound to supply good book", and suitablo places nnd proper manngoment for thoao whom it has taught, for confessedly it has only given thorn tbo raorost of starts nncl barest of beginnings. It has cvon taken pains tbot in somo rospoots this reading shall bo without bias, nnd shall bo simply an intellectual instrument. It oortaiuly is bound thon to follow up this vory hurablo begginning, nnd togivo itH pupils ovory means of completing thoir education. In all reason, whomever thcro is v school there ought to bo a Froo Library, in order that tho scholars who havo outgrown tho nohool may bo able to proceed in knowledge according to their years and oonditiou.~Timos.