What and How to Read: A Guide to Recent English Literature, Containing a Minutely Classified List of the Best Books Published in England and America ... and an Introduction (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

G. A. F. Van Rhyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331308577 ISBN 13: 9781331308577

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from What and How to Read: A Guide to Recent English Literature, Containing a Minutely Classified List of the Best Books Published in England and America During the Past Five Years, With Critical Remarks and Suggestions, and an Introduction

IT is impossible to say any thing absolutely new on the use of books for self-culture. Even the epistolary treatises on the advantages of literature, written by Egyptian scribes two or three thousand years before the compilation of the First Book of Moses, contain, in gene'ral terms, the best that can be said now. How ever, there is always somebody still in His A B O's on some subject or other, and there Will be some one also to Whom a'few words on What and How to Read are welcome advice.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331308577
• ISBN 13: 9781331308577
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 255