5/19/2023 0 Comments The second common reader![]() ![]() If we could banish all preconceptions, when we read, that would be an admirable beginning. Most commonly wee come to books (writes Virginia Woolf) with blurred and divided minds. Granting which, there may be added a few words. The interrogation, it is pointed out, is to emphasize the fact that in the main one must answer the question for one's self. There are some twenty or more papers within the covers of the volume, the last one of which bears the questioning title, "How Should One Read a Book?" Sterne, Dorothy Wordsworth and Hazlitt among the ancients. The paper on Thomas Hardy cones nearest to the present day. Not all of the papers in the collection at hand are new, and some of then first appeared in American periodicals. ![]() The common reader again has the opportunity to rejoice with Mrs. "I rejoice to concur with theĬommon reader," wrote Dr. A keenly discerning critic of books and men, as proved by her first "Common Reader," her deserved reputation is enhanced by the second of these collections. ![]() Mong the foremost stylists of the present day, Virginia Woolf is also among those whose words are more than ordinarily worth one's ![]()
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