LOOK IT UP | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 6, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 39.

LOOK IT UP.

MR. EGGLESTON gives his readers good advice in telling them to look up the location of all places of which they read, and to test the accuracy of all statements that involve calculations. Such a practice tends to cultivate the habit of exactness, and will give to reading much additional enjoyment. In his book, "The Big Brother," he says:—

"It will not hurt you, boys and girls, to learn a little accurate geography, by looking up these places before going on with the story; and if I were your school-master, instead of your story-teller, I should stop here to advise you always to look on the map for every town, river, lake, mountain, or other geographical thing mentioned in any book or paper you read.

"I would advise you, too, if I were your school-master, to add up all the figures given in books and newspapers, to see if the writers have made any mistakes; and it is a good plan, too, to go at once to the dictionary when you meet a word you do not quite comprehend, or to the encyclopedia or history, or whatever else is handy, whenever you read about anything, and would like to know more about it."—Ex.