ABSTRACT
There are people who are rested by reading a novel a good one if it can be obtained, but at any rate a novel just as there are many who look upon the perusal of even the best novel as a bit of unpleasing work. Many people are refreshed by the hardest physical exercise, while others think that a satisfactory rest is only to be attained by lying under a tree without a book. Only one thing is necessary to recreation, and that is not to be bored. But if recreation, and suitable recreation, is essential to health and vigour, it is desirable to have as many forms of it as possible, so that if one fails there may be others to fall back upon. The recreations of youth become impossible or lose their power of amusement, and in middle age people often find themselves with little power of real enjoyment.
