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Title: The Lost Art of Reading
Author: Gerald Stanley Lee
Release Date: August 14, 2008 [EBook #26312]
Language: English
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The Lost Art of Reading
By
Gerald Stanley Lee
Author of "The Shadow Christ" (A Study of the Hebrew Poets) and "About
an Old New England Church" "A Little History"
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1903
COPYRIGHT, 1902
BY
GERALD STANLEY LEE
Published, November, 1902
Reprinted January 1903
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
TO
JENNETTE LEE
Contents
BOOK I
INTERFERENCES WITH THE READING HABIT
CIVILISATION
I--Dust
II--Dust
III--Dust to Dust
IV--Ashes
V--The Literary Rush
VI--Parenthesis--To the Gentle Reader
VII--More Parenthesis--But More to the Point
VIII--More Literary Rush
IX--The Bugbear of Being Well Informed--A Practical Suggestion
X--The Dead Level of Intelligence
XI--The Art of Reading as One Likes
THE DISGRACE OF THE IMAGINATION
I--On Wondering Why One Was Born
II--The Top of the Bureau Principle
THE UNPOPULARITY OF THE FIRST PERSON SINGULAR
I--The First Person a Necessary Evil
II--The Art of Being Anonymous
III--Egoism and Society
IV--i + I = We
V--The Autobiography of Beauty
THE HABIT OF NOT LETTING ONE'S SELF GO
I--The Country Boy in Literature
II--The Subconscious Self
III--The Organic Principle of Inspiration
THE HABIT OF ANALYSIS
I--If Shakespeare Came to Chicago
II--Analysis Analysed
LITERARY DRILL IN COLLEGE
I--Seeds and Blossoms
II--Private Road: Dangerous
III--The Organs of Literature
IV--Entrance Examinatio
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