The Art of Reading (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Legouvé, Ernest) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Art of Reading This translation, the pleasant employment of the spare hours afforded by a month´s sojourn at the sea-side, was ready - Notes and all - four months ago, and announced for immediate publication. But before sending it irrevocably to the printer, I showed the work to a critical friend. He was only half pleased. "Legouvé´s chatty, well-bred, Parisian, man of the world confidences on such a subject as Reading," said he, "to the intelligent community cannot help proving singularly interesting; the translation - except, perhaps, in the ambitious parts - will find few critics; but the Notes are no good." "What´s the objection? Are they not reliable?" "They may be gems of reliability for all I know - I have not tested them. Catch me reading such rubbish as Notes on more than eighty different subjects crowded into ten pages! Of what possible use is the information that Lamartine ´wrote Jocelyn´ and that La Fontaine ´died in 1695´? As far as giving us a living, tangible idea of either of these men is concerned, you might as well say that one of them did not write Don Carlos, and that the other was not slain at the siege of Magdeburg." "What do you want?" "Either no Notes at all or something worth reading." "A biographical dictionary? A young Encyclopedia Britannica?" About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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