DEVELOPMENT BY WILL-POWER

A London publisher says that out of the
23,000,000 electors in Great Britain, not more
than 1,000,000 will, up to fifty years of age,
spend twenty shillings on books. The crowd-
man does not buy books. That is one of the
reasons why the crowd-man is poor and un-
successful. He has no desire for knowledge.

When we consider that the reading of books
means education—that the ablest people are
now Jiriting books, the sale of them seems very
small.
Very few families have a filled book-case.
Very few firms have any library at all. They
have nothing but a dozen Reference books.
Very few people, in fact, are as yet book-
minded. They do not realize that the clever-
ness of the world is now to be found in books.

Thirty years ago, a man who was ‘‘ bookish ”’
was not a practical man. Why ? Because the
books of those days were not practical. To-day
there 1s a different situation. The big news-
papers and magazines are catering to the masses
and the great new ideas and methods must be
learned from books.

No matter what’ a man’s business may be,
he must go on the search for facts and ideas,
not only in his own trade, but outside of it as
well. The man who centres all his attention

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