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zThe Project Gutenberg EBook of The Lost Art of Reading, by Gerald Stanley Lee This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Lost Art of Reading Author: Gerald Stanley Lee Release Date: August 14, 2008 [EBook #26312] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LOST ART OF READING *** Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net 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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