Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Prose Pictures: An Anthology of Modern Prose
His book has been compiled in the hope that it may serve as an attractive intro duction to some of the best modern'prose, other than that of the purely fictional type. Perhaps I should say it is the ultimate outcome of the frequent eager demand, Where can you buy that book '4 when I have read certain of the extracts to girls in their teens. Moreover, in these days of restless craving for excitement, it is of vital importance to show the. Rising generation the several sources of that pleasure which rises in the mind upon the perusal of a noble work, and thereby to lead them, perchance, to make for themselves nests of beautiful thoughts.
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