On the Choice of Books

part in it, and to say no more about it. I should say there is nothing

in the world you can conceive so difficult, _prima facie_, as that of getting a set of men gathered together--rough, rude, and ignorant people--gather them together, promise them a shilling a day, rank them up, give them very severe and sharp drill, and by bullying and drill--for the word "drill" seems ...