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Title: Suspended Judgments
Essays on Books and Sensations

Author: John Cowper Powys

Release Date: November 5, 2008 [EBook #27163]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Ruth Hart

[Note: I have made the following spelling changes: qualites which
strike to qualities which strike, revelled in to reveled in, proteges to
proteges, voluptuous femininty to voluptuous femininity, tyrrannise
to tyrannise, Montagus to Montagues, Zarathrustra to Zarathustra,
antiChrist to anti-Christ, Car nous voulous to Car nous voulons,
Gelent votre chair to Gelent votre chair, slips in in to slips in,
irrresponsible a temperament to irresponsible a temperament,
common occurences to common occurrences, philanthrophy to
philanthropy, demogorgon to Demogorgon, somethings which palls
upon us to something which palls upon us, never encounted to never
encountered, Arimathaea to Arimathea, the the contemptuous libels
to the contemptuous libels, lapsed soul to lapsed soul, philsophical
motto to philosophical motto, sybilline to sibylline, pseudo-latin to
pseudo-Latin, and ninteenth century to nineteenth century.]

SUSPENDED JUDGMENTS
ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND SENSATIONS

JOHN COWPER POWYS

1916
G. ARNOLD SHAW
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1916, by G. Arnold Shaw
Copyright in Great Britain and the Colonies

DEDICATED
TO MY DEAR FRIEND
BERNARD PRICE O'NEILL

CONTENTS

The Art of Discrimination 3
Montaigne 17
Pascal 47
Voltaire 63
Rousseau 83
Balzac 107
Victor Hugo 133
Guy de Maupassant 149
Anatole France 171
Paul Verlaine 197
Remy de Gourmont 225
William Blake 257
Byron 279
Emily Bronte 313
Joseph Conrad 337
Henry James 367
Oscar Wilde 401
Suspended Judgment 425

THE ART OF DISCRIMINATION

The world divides itself into people who can discriminate a