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Books in General

by Sir John Collings Squire

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Author
Squire, John Collings, Sir, 1884-1958
Title
Books in general
Original Publication
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.
Credits
Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
Books and reading -- Great Britain
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 78901
Release Date
June 21, 2026
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Books in General — BOOKS OF ESSAYS
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.Preface
  4. 4.Contents
  5. 5.Who’s Who
  6. 6.Political Songs
  7. 7.An Oriental on Albert the Good
  8. 8.Epigrams
  9. 9.An Eminent Baconian
  10. 10.The Beauties of Badness
  11. 11.More Badness
  12. 12.A Mystery Solved
  13. 13.Carrying the Alliance too far
  14. 14.May 1914
  15. 15.May 1914: The Leipzig Exhibition
  16. 16.The Mantle of Sir Edwin
  17. 17.“The Cattle of the Boyne”
  18. 18.August 1914 — FOOTNOTES:
  19. 19.Mrs. Barclay sees it through
  20. 20.A Topic of Standing Interest
  21. 21.Was Cromwell an Alligator?
  22. 22.The Depressed Philanthropist
  23. 23.A Polyphloisboisterous Critic
  24. 24.“Another Century, and then ...”
  25. 25.Herrick
  26. 26.The Muse in Liquor
  27. 27.£5 Misspent — FOOTNOTES:
  28. 28.Shakespeare’s Women and Mr. George Moore
  29. 29.Moving a Library
  30. 30.Table-Talk and Jest Books
  31. 31.Stephen Phillips
  32. 32.Gray and Horace Walpole
  33. 33.A Horrible Bookseller
  34. 34.The Troubles of a Catholic
  35. 35.The Bible as Raw Material
  36. 36.How to avoid Bad English
  37. 37.Woodland Creatures
  38. 38.Other People’s Books
  39. 39.Peacock
  40. 40.Wordsworth’s Personal Dullness
  41. 41.Henry James’s Obscurity
  42. 42.The “Ring” in the Bookselling Trade
  43. 43.Music-Hall Songs
  44. 44.More Music-Hall Songs
  45. 45.Utopias
  46. 46.Charles II in English Verse
  47. 47.The Most Durable Books
  48. 48.The Worst Style in the World
  49. 49.The Reconstruction of Orthography
  50. 50.Mr. James Joyce
  51. 51.Tennessee — FOOTNOTES:
  52. 52.Sir William Watson and Mr. Lloyd George
  53. 53.Stranded
  54. 54.Mr. Ralph Hodgson
  55. 55.Double Misprints
  56. 56.The History of Earl Pumbles
  57. 57.On Destroying Books

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