_ autraisttrainmuatearstrr PAGIPOUR _ ' An enterprising magazine has successtully canvassed a Lumber at prominent persons on the question of "What I am v "ttr to and this summer 1'" 'Ito some of us it may be interesting to know what labor "ritediihtr -oinithologists, inventots, motion picture producers. Quakers and authors read. But aside from this passing inter- .t the question which was put to these amt! othegs of male than passing interest. "in" ar-d-eta" matter October IS, me, at the we can at tthiierittti Int-oh. and» Act af March a, 1879. Issued twice may. Is there really such a thing " summer reading? la the individual's reading activity a seasonal affair like summer caning or spring house-cleaning? Aside from a few books Q gardening and outdoor' sports, is there any kind of reading ,ghiett is best only in the summer, and another kind which is - suitable for winter? Mart of the literary output of the day would hardly give one that impt%aion. For those who lead only the mo"re serious books it probably isn't any harder to read them dummy than it is in March. And the lighter sort of f1ettttgtutmttd to ii"ririiAiria/isaieinaneseaionuther-tt1do" another. . This matter of summer reading is probably little more than a myth kept alive as other myths are kept alive-s-because it gives us some sort of satisfaction. We have summer clothes and summer weather and summer camping. These are logical distinctions; they exist in fact. And from these comes the hire to arrange in a seasonal way other activities and things Summer is the season for vacations and far other 'lessi legitimate forms of lasting. We feel that we have more time in the summer: or perhaps it would be more correct to say that in the winter we think we shall have tithe for reading during the summer. Whatever book we can not give ourotime to in the winter, we put aside for summer reading. Nor dtiea the fact that weneldom get to it in the summer prevent us from keeping alive this summer-reading myth. The desire to teesrtminourrmittntthattheenttomewhatmtiathsdbrthut' making up in the winter a summer-reading list. It is a slave in mitmutsied conscience thh summer-reading list of books. g? a m was 10 CONQUIR ' The president of the Royal Gmphical Society, of London. "plains ttittertrthat explorers aresoacarce hecan not complete the mantra lecture program for the amine season. he company of hardy pioneers in dwindling, he says, because d the lure of "stunts," lack of money, the 'general impression that there is nothing new under the sun to find and no new worlds to conquer: - The unknown today is but a speck. on the map compared with that void into which Columbus sailed when he ventured irstothe'drmdfutWetrt. Theaevenaeuhaveheencmhednnd even sounded. Both poles and the nrctic'nnd athletic circle- hye been explored. Darkest" Africa is becoming civilized. Hunt-ins have been scaled, deserts traversed and waters atnrignted. . But there still remain opportunities for exploration. Mount Everest is "conquered. There are parts of the Amazon bgein. polar regions, central Australia and the Himalayas to be upload and there is limitless scientific recearch work remain- ing to bedone in other lands. - Jt in true there are no new continents or countries to be discovered by this generation, unless an uncharted continent should exist in the polar regions, but it seems there is great igtemttive -for further exploration of the little known parts of the world ant for haphmrd digging in' all lands for buried ruins obput civilizations and evidence of prehirtorie life. the Willow whom battlittlctoomnchuqnordidn't haa.tet-gtieasdahemrtttid-tr $thtmathi-nhmstdottr. , 1tuoattvthint-thteth" -txmsidmrsuttiethhttrsrrrt tam-tthr-trom". ttGirriiGtti-1irji' "natal-yacht tiottiforusie'tre4rP""ro Aarutt-trru-itdrrtane."y tifFrriiiat1ietauteite.e,e hrtantg,tttehiooetrawrhtMedtt mun-mumugamu hodidts'teamifthetr unam- Jahanmamm -aMoeeitseutrnrhegt Ibo-lb 'ruaidn-thtttinsMdty aura"... if ttoi-iam i-etr-"Thr_rTeoet1red-m in Ne has" ttuanidth.fomterrreris tu11'i'.""ti"G5iiriiiiGririit"irfil Ammmmotmm! 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