Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1920 — Fine Art of Reading. [ARTICLE]

Fine Art of Reading.

An English writer holds “browsing” to be more of an art and thinks that the perfect “browser” should stand up or assume some other position of easy negligence, because for him to settle down in a chair is to “degenerate almost inevitably Into a mere reader.” He then goes on to point out that one does not “browse” on Meredith or Browning, a statement to which might be added that one does mighty little “browsing” on Henry James. “Browsing” is not quite the same thing as skipping, although you do skip; nor yet as skimming, although you do sHm; it is, In other words, just browsing, and this may be considered as satisfactory as a great many definitions. —Christian Science Monitor.