The Pleasures, the Dangers And the Uses of Desultory Reading
The Pleasures, the Dangers And the Uses of Desultory Reading
Stafford Henry Northcote Iddesleigh
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Much, on the other hand, consists of popular renderings of subjects, sometimes admirable and useful to all, sometimes, it is to be feared, of little value or interest for anyone. Habit and a little trying experience will soon teach you to discern how much of a periodical is worth the expenditure of much time. You will not be long before you acquire some skill in the arts of dipping and of skipping. Of novels I must speak in somewhat the same strain. There is probably no form of idleness so sedu...ctive or so enervating to the mind as indiscriminate novel reading. Yet some of the best and most truly instructive works in the world belong to this class. d by Google the Uses of Desultory Readmg, 47 From Don Quixote to Waverley^ from The Vicar of Wakefield to The CaxtonSy from Miss Austen or Miss Edgeworth or Miss Ferrier to Charlotte Brontd or George Eliot, you will find what Horace found in those great Homeric poems — humour and wisdom, and a keen insight into the strength and the weakness of the human character.
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