Hamlet's Note-Book
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781458831996
Paperback|9781458831996
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HAMLET'S NOTE-BOOK. It is a serious question whether reviews are of any real advantage to literature. They certainly tend to prevent its direct operation upon the public mind, substituting for consideration, instead of the book itself, an account of it by some more or less competent critic. This account is almost sure to be partial, inadequate, or incorrect, and is often disparaging or hostile. Worst of all, it can be so moulded as to deter the reader from any examination of the work noticed, which may yet be of exceeding value. One remembers the fate of those exquisite early essays of Emerson, shelved at the bookseller's for years by the might of critical verdicts such as would never have emanated from the reading public at large. Doubtless much that is valid can be said in favor of the reviewing system. But however this may be, we cannot help feeling an angry disgust, and the disposition to have the whole thing blown to limbo, when we see, as we do frequently, a book of signal merit intercepted on its way to the public, given a bad name in advance, and its recognition hindered and perhaps absolutely prevented, by the plausible mis- statements of some individual, gifted with a certain knack at composition, who holds a place of vantage in a widely circulated journal or magazine. These remarks bear relevancy to a transaction in which the late Richard Grant White appears as the principal figure. About two years ago, the Promus of Lord Bacon, a manuscript previously unpublished, was issued in print by Mrs. Henry Pott, of London, England. The sentences which compose the work were illustrated and elucidated by copious citations from Shakespeare, and the whole prefaced, and it may be truly said, illuminated, by a lucid and nobly- reasoned commentary from the pen of the editor. I...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458831996 |
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| ISBN-10 | 145883199X |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $12.72 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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