Excerpt from The Outlook for American Prose Entertaining collections of newspaper essays, and write a preface in the form of a review Of the book I was offering the public, calling attention to as many as possible of the weak points Of the book, and so disarming criticism on these points as far as pos sible. I should find fault with the author for coming back so often to the same writers; for being so nucet tain, or so vacillating, in his opinion upon a given writer; for not knowing just what he thinks, in the end, of the ...
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Excerpt from The Outlook for American Prose Entertaining collections of newspaper essays, and write a preface in the form of a review Of the book I was offering the public, calling attention to as many as possible of the weak points Of the book, and so disarming criticism on these points as far as pos sible. I should find fault with the author for coming back so often to the same writers; for being so nucet tain, or so vacillating, in his opinion upon a given writer; for not knowing just what he thinks, in the end, of the outlook for American prose. And then I should point out the weakness he shows in not allying himself with any particular school Of writ. 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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