The book Byways in Bookland; Confessions And Digressions was written by author Walter Arnold Mursell Here you can read free online of Byways in Bookland; Confessions And Digressions book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Byways in Bookland; Confessions And Digressions a good or bad book?
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Wilkins. The author is un- 127 Byways in Bookland doubtedly talented, observant, and graphic. At present he is intellectually young, socially invidious, and wholly unacquainted with humour and pathos. His story as a rattling succession of action is quite above the average, but it has no soul, no God, no far-away sky and outlook." I wish that criticism could be printed in capitals, and placed on the desk of every writer of stories. It would redeem his sentences from the merely superficial, and s...ave him from thinking that life is chiefly an affair of chatter. If a man would only look into his own heart and write, we should have something deeper than casual observation. Why should he always be in search of the extravagant, the unusual, the bizarre ? Why does he confuse novelty with eccentricity ? That fine writer of stories, Henry Seton Merriman, says : " The only novelty is the Human Heart — Central Man. That is never stale, and there are depths still unexplored, heights still unattained, warm rivers of love, cold streams of hatred, and vast plains where strange motives grow." He is right.
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