Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1882 — Magnetism of Books. [ARTICLE]

Magnetism of Books.

An author goes to his work with the same definite purpose as the mesmerist does—that is, to make his readers think the way he does on the subject he writes of. How far he succeeds depends upon his magnetic power; or in other words, on how far he can impose his own personality in the place of your own. Some books are fuller than others of this peculiar life—are as vivid and sparkling as sunlight on moving waters—although the language may be even commonplace, while the same subject, illustrated by the same figures of speech and written with apparently greater care and knowledge of the subject, fall flat on the mind and fail to make any impression whatever. An unmagnetic writer may vary his style as much as he likes, but he will always fails, no matter how great the truths he presents. Many a polished, scholarly intellect has had to bow before the rough and ready oratory or writing of one his inferior in everything else but that peculiar power of impressing others. • ' A physician says • “ I know many who had long suffered from dyspepsia, weak lungs, asthma, consumptive symptoms, impure blood, s ro r u>«, etc., and who found quick relief by usiug Dr. Guysott’s Tonic Of Yuliow Pock, Sarpapartila, etc,"