Excerpt from Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen: A Series of Articles Reprinted by Permission Principally From the National Review There is, as yet, no Act of Parliament compelling a bond fide traveller to read. If you wish him to read, you must make reading pleasant. You must give him short views, and clear sentences. It will not answer to explain what all the things which you describe, are not. You must begin by saying what they are. There is exactly the difference between the Books of this age, and those of a ...
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Excerpt from Estimates of Some Englishmen and Scotchmen: A Series of Articles Reprinted by Permission Principally From the National Review There is, as yet, no Act of Parliament compelling a bond fide traveller to read. If you wish him to read, you must make reading pleasant. You must give him short views, and clear sentences. It will not answer to explain what all the things which you describe, are not. You must begin by saying what they are. There is exactly the difference between the Books of this age, and those of a more laborious age, that we feel between the lecture of a professor and the talk of the man of the world - the former profound, systematic, suggesting all arguments, analysing all difficulties, discussing all doubts, - very admirable, a little tedious, slowly winding an elaborate way, the charac teristic effort of one who has hived wisdom during many studious years, agreeable to such as he is, anything but agreeable to such as he is not - the latter, the talk of the manifold talker, glancing lightly from topic to topic, sug gesting deep things in a jest, unfolding unanswerable arguments in an absurd illustration, expounding nothing, completing nothing, exhausting nothing, yet really suggest ing the lessons of a wider experience, embodying the results of a more finely tested philosophy, passing with a more Shakesperian transition, connecting topics with a more subtle link, refining on them with an acuter perception, and what is more to the purpose, pleasing all that hear him, charming high and low, in' season and out of season, with a word of illustration for each and a touch of humour intelligible to all, - fragmentary yet imparting what he says, allusive yet explaining what he intends, disconnected yet impressing what he maintains. This is the very model of our modern writing. The man of the modern world is used to speak what the modern world will hear; the writer of the modern world must write What that world will in dulgently and pleasantly peruse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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