Chapter 24

ANOTHER STEP.

Making a new study--conversation with Charlie--Nat's new plans--study furniture--manual labor--Charlie's opinion--excessive reading bad--using what is learned--Coleridge's description of readers--difference between Nat and Charlie--Burke's Essay on the Sublime and Beautiful--a bit of humor--using the library of Harvard College--his walks thither--power of concentrating thoughts--Hugh Miller fighting imaginary battles with shells--Cary made a missionary by reading voyages of Captain Cook--Nat's invincible purpose 251-259