Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1911 — Deep-Seated Notion About Reading. [ARTICLE]

Deep-Seated Notion About Reading.

The desire to make persona read la one of. the most curious obsessions of the American librarian. Where It does not take the pestiferous form of trying to browbeat people to read “useful” and “Instructive” books when they want amusing books, it becomes an attempt to turn reading for pleasure Into reading tor duty. It will apparently take generations to remove from the head* of many persons the de*|>~ seated notion that the reeding of a book (no matter how noble aa a work of literature) simply and purely .and absolutely for pleasure with no ulterior motive of pecuniary gain, increase of knowledge, education or culture, that such reading Is not a little sinful - *