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Clever, original, and fascinating
The Lost Art of Reading
Mount Tom Edition
New Edition in Two Volumes
I. The Child and the Book
A Manual for Parents and for Teachers in
Schools and Colleges
II. The Lost Art of Reading
or, The Man and The Book
Two Volumes, Crown 8vo. Sold separately.
Each net, $1,50
By Gerald Stanley Lee
"I must express with your connivance the joy I have had, the enthusiasm I have felt, in gloating over every page of what I believe is the most brilliant book of any season since Carlyle's and Emerson's pens were laid aside. The title does not hint at any more than a fraction of the contents. It is a highly original critique of philistinism and gradgrindism in education, library science, science in general, and life in general. It is full of humor, rich in style, and eccentric in form and all suffused with the perfervid genius of a man who is not merely a thinker but a force. Every sentence is tinglingly alive, and as if furnished with long antennæ of suggestiveness. I do not know who Mr. Lee is, but I know this—that if he goes on as he has been, we need no longer whine that we have no worthy successors to the old Brahminical writers of New England.
"I have been reading with wonder and laughter and with loud cheers. It is the word of all words that needed to be spoken just now. It makes me believe that after all we have n't a great kindergarten about us in authorship, but that there is virtue, race, sap in us yet. I can conceive that the date of the publication of this book may well be the date of the moral and intellectual renaissance for which we have long been scanning the horizon."—WM. SLOANE KENNEDY in Boston Transcript.
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