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This selection of "One hundred best books" is made after a different method and with a different purpose from the selections already in existence. Those apparently are designed to stuff the minds of young persons with an accumulation of "standard learning" calculated to alarm...
This selection of "One hundred best books" is made after a different method and with a different purpose from the selections already in existence. Those apparently are designed...
3. Chapter 3For those who have been "fooled to the top of their bent" by the stupidities and brutalities of the crowd there is a savage satisfaction in reading of Foma's insane outbursts of...
4. Chapter 4Walter Pater's writings are more capable than any in our list of offering, if approached at the suitable hour and moment, new vistas and possibilities both intellectual and emot...
2. Chapter 2It is time Shakespeare was read for the beauty of his poetry, and enjoyed without pedantry and with some imagination. The less usual and more cynical of his plays, such as Troil...
5. Chapter 5Artzibasheff ........ Sanine (52) ....................... $1.35 Artzibasheff ........ Breaking Point .................... 1.40 Austen, Jane ........ *Pride and Prejudice (61) .....
6. Chapter 6AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS says: "Mr. Holborn's poetry is delicate, musical, rhapsodic; often shaped to enfold classical themes, always of proportioned comeliness, filled with a...