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The good book of the hour,then,--I do not speak of the bad ones,--is simply the useful or pleasant talk of some person whom you cannototherwise converse with,printed for you.Very useful often,telling you what you need to know; very pleasant often,as asensible friend's present talk would be.These bright accounts oftravels; good-humoured and witty discussions of question; lively orpathetic story-telling in the form of novel; firm fact-telling,bythe real agents concerned in the events of passing history;--allthese books of the hour,multiplying among us as education becomesmore general,are a peculiar possession of the present age:weought to be entirely thankful for them,and entirely ashamed ofourselves if we make no good use of them.But we make the worst possible use,if we allow them to usurp the place of true books:for ,strictly speaking,they are not books at all,but merely letters or newspapers in good print.Our friend's letter may be delightful,or necessary,to-day:whether worth keeping or not,is to be considered.The newspaper may be entirely proper at breakfast time,but assuredly it is not reading for all day.So,though bound up in a volume,the long letter which gives you so pleasant an account of the inns,and roads,and weather last year at such a place,or which tells you that amusing story,or gives you the real circumstances of such and such events,however valuable for occasional reference,may not be,in the real sense of the world,a "book"at all,nor,in the real sense,to be"read".A book is essentially not a talked thing,but a written thing;and written,not with the view of mere communication ,but of permanence.急用!英翻中!请不要用翻译器!
The good book of the hour,then,--I do not speak of the bad ones,--is simply the useful or pleasant talk of some person whom you cannototherwise converse with,printed for you.Very useful often,telling you what you need to know; very pleasant often,as asensible friend's present talk would be.These bright accounts oftravels; good-humoured and witty discussions of question; lively orpathetic story-telling in the form of novel; firm fact-telling,bythe real agents concerned in the events of passing history;--allthese books of the hour,multiplying among us as education becomesmore general,are a peculiar possession of the present age:weought to be entirely thankful for them,and entirely ashamed ofourselves if we make no good use of them.But we make the worst possible use,if we allow them to usurp the place of true books:for ,strictly speaking,they are not books at all,but merely letters or newspapers in good print.Our friend's letter may be delightful,or necessary,to-day:whether worth keeping or not,is to be considered.The newspaper may be entirely proper at breakfast time,but assuredly it is not reading for all day.So,though bound up in a volume,the long letter which gives you so pleasant an account of the inns,and roads,and weather last year at such a place,or which tells you that amusing story,or gives you the real circumstances of such and such events,however valuable for occasional reference,may not be,in the real sense of the world,a "book"at all,nor,in the real sense,to be"read".A book is essentially not a talked thing,but a written thing;and written,not with the view of mere communication ,but of permanence.急用!英翻中!请不要用翻译器!
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