A Book for All Readers: Designed as an Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books, and the Formation of Public and Private LibrariesG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 - 14 Seiten |
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... interest in works of fiction . In fact , the novel , in its best estate , is only biography amplified by imagination , and enlivened by dialogue . And the novel is successful only when it succeeds in depicting the most truly the scenes ...
... interest in works of fiction . In fact , the novel , in its best estate , is only biography amplified by imagination , and enlivened by dialogue . And the novel is successful only when it succeeds in depicting the most truly the scenes ...
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... interest . Among the best letters of this class may be reckoned the correspond- ence of Horace Walpole , Madame de Sévigné , the poets Gray and Cowper , Lord Macaulay , Lord Byron , and Charles Dickens . Written for the most part with ...
... interest . Among the best letters of this class may be reckoned the correspond- ence of Horace Walpole , Madame de Sévigné , the poets Gray and Cowper , Lord Macaulay , Lord Byron , and Charles Dickens . Written for the most part with ...
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... interest and im- portance . For general reference , or the biography of all nations , Lippincott's Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography is essential , as well as Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography , for our own ...
... interest and im- portance . For general reference , or the biography of all nations , Lippincott's Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography is essential , as well as Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography , for our own ...
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... interest , and moral tone , more than to novelty or popularity . In the matter of choice , individual opinions are of small value . Never buy a book simply because some reader ex- tols it as very fine , or " splendid , " or " perfectly ...
... interest , and moral tone , more than to novelty or popularity . In the matter of choice , individual opinions are of small value . Never buy a book simply because some reader ex- tols it as very fine , or " splendid , " or " perfectly ...
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... interest of completeness in the library , saving a delay of days and sometimes weeks in waiting for the board of directors . All orders sent out for accessions should previously be compared with the alphabeted order - card list , as ...
... interest of completeness in the library , saving a delay of days and sometimes weeks in waiting for the board of directors . All orders sent out for accessions should previously be compared with the alphabeted order - card list , as ...
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