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Excerpt from Books and How to Use Them: Some Hints to Readers and Students
N o apology whatever is offered for the production of this book. If it is bad, apologies can not perpetu ate its existence; and, if it is good, it does not need them. The subject of books and reading is not a new one. Many men, and some of prominence, have written on the subject, and that, too, so thoroughly that it seems almost like presumption to attempt the saying of any thing new or original. These men, in their various treatises, have correctly stated the rules of reading and the selection of books and I can only hope, by following in their footsteps, to point out occasionally some exception to a rule that has been passed over unnoticed, or to elaborate a too general statement. Beginners in all branches of knowledge require nothing so much as practical illustration of fundamental theories; and this mode of teaching, rarely met with in books, I have attempted to intro duce here.
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