remembered it, but he incorporated
it into himself. No other kind of
reading could have brought the East
out of its grave, with its rich and
languorous atmosphere steeping the
senses in the charm of Cleopatra, or
recalled the massive and powerfully
organised life of Rome about the
person of the great Caesar. Shake-
speare read his books with such in-
sight and imagination that they
became part of himself; and so far
as this process is concerned, the
reader of to-day can follow in his
steps.

The majority of people have not
learned this secret; they read for in-
formation or for refreshment; they
do not read for enrichment. Feed-
ing one's nature at all the sources of
life, browsing at will on all the up-
lands of knowledge and thought, do

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