The Faculty of Reading: The Coming of Age of the National Home Reading Union |
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40 Illustrations attendance AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Bishop of Hereford boys CHARLES WHIBLEY Chautauqua Co-operative Holidays Committee continuation school cotyledons County Council courses of reading culture desire discuss Dr Hill Dr Paton effort elementary schools English Essays fact faculty of reading feel G. K. CHESTERTON George Cattermole girls give Home Reading Union idea ideal Illustrations by Phiz important inaugural influence intellectual interest kind labour lectures LEWIS MELVILLE librarian literary literature lives London LUKE FILDES magazines Marcus Stone matter means meeting methods mind movement National Home Reading Old Curiosity Shop organisation perhaps pleasure Prof Professor pupil readers Reading Circles recreative scheme Secretary secure session Shakespeare Sir Richard Jebb Society spirit student Summer Assembly sympathy teacher teaching things Thomas à Kempis thought tion true village words Yerburgh Young People's
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Page 51 - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
Page 40 - If he shall not lose his reward, who gives a cup of cold water to his thirsty neighbour, what will not be the reward of those, who, by putting good works into the hands of their neighbours, open to them the fountains of eternal life! Blessed are the hands of such transcribers!
Page 19 - It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have anything else to amuse them. There must be an external impulse ; emulation, or vanity, or avarice. The progress which the understanding makes through a book, has more pain than pleasure in it. Language is scanty, and inadequate to express the nice gradations and mixtures of our feelings. No man reads a book of science from pure...
Page 71 - ... accept lower wages at first for the sake of subsequent advantages in the vocations; but their ignorance of these matters makes it impossible for them to select wisely for their children. " ' Unless children are thus cared for at this turning point in their lives,' says the Consultative Committee, ' the store of knowledge and discipline acquired at school will be quickly dissipated, and they will soon become unfit either for employment or for further education.
Page 37 - wisdom that crieth, and putteth forth her voice'* in the streets, that standeth at all our doors, that appealeth to all our senses, teaching us in everything, and everywhere, by all that we see, and all that we hear, by births and burials, by sickness and health, by life and death, by pains and poverty, by misery and vanity, and by all the changes and chances of life...
Page 13 - ... to home reading, and to adapt it to the divers needs and tastes of readers. (3) To give all practical help, in the most economical and effi-cient way, to those who engage in such reading. (4) By means of local unions, or associations of readers, and the influences of a large organization, as well as by personal sympathy, to sustain the interest and confirm the purpose of all who undertake a regular course of home reading, and to unite them in honorable and helpful fellowship with each other.
Page 19 - English literature is the birthright and inheritance of the English race. We have produced and are producing some of the greatest of poets, of philosophers, of men of science. No race can boast a brighter, purer, or nobler literature— richer than our commerce, more powerful than our arms. It is the true pride and glory of our country, and for it we cannot be too thankful.