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FHIEKrE6.-Ths necessity eE shesghs, ss discipline of the mind, Is too obvious to require proof. Yet how hiils do people think for themselves, though heaven knows they think enough of themselves. They hire aIl their thinking done, paying h'gh price for the same.

 In the reading If books, they give DO .hosght ,o lhe subject bu. read and read merely for the purpose Of readiag-whal they read is of no consequences. Books a" waded through with spidity that is per fectly astonishing, but it IS in reality scGdtae, as they ge. in,o il only shin-deep. hnn. novel, they shed tears ever Il, seb, and wonder tha. sueh things could happen Their heart Is thrown into the romance, oa' their head is mol suffered 0 enter the canhicL ss an umpire between the right and ~fone' the discreet and the indsscrees--is not sui- fefed to weigh the absardiiies and rejecs tne positive errors inculcaled. A novel weald hurt no one. if the reader would properly exercise the head, and think ali the time thal ii Is . novel, and nothing else. But alas : too many nosel readers have weaker heads than hsar.s. and consequently think them selves oa the highway of reality when they are only waaderiag 'n the barren Se'ds o' iuaainaiioa. At the same time. If Is true .Aa. be,,er books could occupy ihe aiiention' than .hese same novels.

 Wan, of thought is uaniiessed ia snaay a ,he business sransacaiens Of life, and no answer Is more frequent to the questions .Why did you so'" or "Why did you "'' .,s,, ,bsn. s.i did noa fAink :" That s geo crafty mos. evident It w siiiy excass' io' whas business have pers"os to do any ib"s without thinking,

 wiih more thinking and lsss .hoagh'iess,, ness this world would Dot be so had 8 world as many think il to be. On the whole, we think too usasy think Hs they lhiak others Oasis.