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A child's guide to reading (1909)

Macy, John Albert, 1877-1932 · New York : Baker & Taylor · leaf 80

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Mrs. Stowes is evensecond to TJncle Toms Cabin. The Vicar ofWakefield is the glorious whole of Goldsmiths nar-rative prose, though he succeeded in every other formof literature, including the prose drama. But theman who can write two novels can write three if hehas time; the two-novel power is… … HAWTHORNE TliG Reading of Fiction on tlie Floss. The person who has once read andenjoyed two novels of Dickens is likely to read sixor eight, Pendennis leads to The ISTewcomes.And any of Trollopes Barchester, novels is anintroduction to the happily interminable series. I have purposely said little…

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