Water is the basis of all life. Every animal or every pliant contains a substantial proportion of free or combined water in its body and no kind of physical activity is possible in which water does not play an essential part. Water is necessary for animal life, while moisture in the soil is equally imperative for life and growth of plants and trees, though the quantity necessarily varies enormously from plant...

Life for most of us is pretty humdrum always. Nothing exciting, dangerous or adventurous ever seems to happen to us. Through books, children are able to live in a highly exciting, dangerous and adventurous world. Books such as “Treasure Island” provide the child with an exciting and dangerous world in which anything can and do happen. Later, spy stories and actual accounts of wars and battles, all provide the escape that...

It is of great importance for the young that they accustom themselves from their earliest years to trust as little as possible to others for what they want. They should learn to put on their own clothes, to wash themselves, to take their food with their own hands and not expect mothers or servants do these things for them. They should learn to read and write and store their minds with...

Letters are invaluable means of keeping our friendship with those who are away. Without the interchange of letters our absent friends and relations would be practically dead to us. We might learn from books the surroundings in which they dwell or hear from travelers about the prosperity or failure, but it is through letters that we can converse with them as often as we want and obtain a clear picture of...

A good book is one of our best friends. It is the same today that it always was and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us in times of adversity or distress. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, comforting and consoling us in age. Title:- Usefulness of books. Precis:-...

The test of a great book is whether we want to read it only once or more than once. Any book, which we want to read the second time even more than we wanted to read it the first time, is really a great book. Every additional reading will help us understand it better and we will help us understand it better and we will find new beauties in it. A...