It stirs the mind to action and inspires us to lift ourselves out of the rut into which we have fallen.

One returns to them time after time, each reading opening up new vistas of thought, new lines of mental development.
[Illustration: _A Scene from "His Picture in the Papers"_] _As a man's stomach is what he eats, a man's mind is what he reads._ It goes without saying that no healthy, active mind could exist without the companionship of Shakespeare.

Nowadays it is possible to secure the entire works of the immortal poet in one volume.

There is a special Oxford University edition which can be had for a small sum.

The type is large, the paper good and there are many notes to help one over the rocky places.