is Father finds the
Letters--His Criticisms--Collins _versus_ Benjamin--Bought a Copy of
the Spectator and studied it laboriously--Sorry that he did not
continue to write Poetry--His Father's Counsel--His Economy of
Time--A Book always by his side--His Maxims on this Subject--
Violating the Sabbath to gain Time for Study--Useful Conversation
and Talking Nonsense--Hundreds ruined by a similar cause--Walter
Scott hiding Novels from his Father--Pope going to the Theatre--
Exceptions to the General Rule 93-103

CHAPTER XI.

PLAIN FARE.

Proposition to board Himself--Became a Vegetarian by Reading Tryon's
Book--Why he did it--How much Money he saved by doing it--Spent it
for Books--How much Time saved also--Cocker's Arithmetic--Other
Books read at odd moments--His Plan to save Time--His Maxims on
saving Time--Aim to be Useful--The English Grammar--Shaftesbury's
Works--Benjamin a Doubter--Makes known his Doubts to Collins--Danger
of Reading Attacks upon the Gospel 104-113

CHAPTER XII.

THE NEWSPAPER.

Starting the Third Newspaper in America--Opposition to it--Number of
Newspapers now--Forty Million Sheets from Eight Presses--Seventy-one
Miles a day of Newspapers from One Office--Almost enough to reach
around the Earth in a Year--Weigh these Papers--Four Million Pounds
in a Year--Two Thousand Two-Horse Loads--The New England Courant
started--Printer, News-carrier, and Collector--The Club--Incited to
write an Article--Tucks it under Printing-office Door--Hears it
favourably commented on--Writes other Articles--This an Incident
that decides his Career--Canning at Eton and the
"Microcosm"--Similar Paper in Seminaries now 114-122

CHAPTER XIII.

THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.

Eager to Own the Pieces--Discloses the Authorship to James--
Interview with the Club--Surprise that Benjamin wrote them--
Treated with Attention by the Club--Oppressed by James--Trouble
with him--Benjamin resolves to leave him--The Printing-office
furnishes many Scholars--A New England Divine--Benjamin directed
in the Path to which his Native Endowments pointed--So of Lord
Nelson--Anecdote of him--Buxton, Wilberforce, and Others--Example
of the Author of the "Optic Library" 123-129

CHAPTER XIV.

THE ARREST.

Action of General Court to Arrest James Franklin for